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for: ‘September, 2011’

Following on from my post about where to play blackjack, here’s a basic strategy tester and strategy table built in Tableau. The idea is that if you play perfect strategy, you minimize the house advantage and your losses. By playing “with your gut”, you’re giving the house a massive advantage, especially if you’re not doubling …

With the Tableau customer conference fast approaching I thought a blackjack visualization was appropriate. If you play blackjack using basic strategy (hitting, standing, doubling, etc. depending on the cards showing) you can minimize your losses over time. However, short of card counting or cheating, the house always has the advantage, although slight – typically in …

How many calories do you save by drinking light beer? Or perhaps the better question, if the alcohol content is lower in light beers, how many calories am I saving to get as drunk? This visualization answers that and more. The data is from Beer100.com and I’ve added lots of sort, coloring, highlight and filter …