Wednesday, June 12, 2013


Chess Data in Tableau

Tableau has a public visual on The Best Chess Openings - a great viz by Ben Jones.

This made me curious as to what it might take to generate chess data for plotting in Tableau. It's non-trivial. I am still working on that script. In the meantime, here's a short game from the 1600's. Enjoy!

And here is Joe Mako's improved version, from his comment below: