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Juan Gabriel: A Career Visualized

Part Three: Using embedded web objects and viz extensions This is the final installment of a three-part series that walks you through my recently built dashboard. Title of the dashboard is called: Juan Gabriel-Emotion, Sound, and Legacy. This visualization takes a deep tour in the career of Mexican idol Juan Gabriel analyzing his career and…
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Visualizing Song Mood and Quality

Visualizing the incredible career of Juan Gabriel through data This is part two of a three-part series that walks you through my recently built dashboard. Title of the dashboard is called: Juan Gabriel-Emotion, Sound, and Legacy. This visualization takes a deep tour in the career of Mexican idol Juan Gabriel analyzing his career and song…
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Designing Emotion Through Data:

Visualizing the incredible career of Juan Gabriel through data This is part one of a three-part series that walks you through my recently built dashboard. Title of the dashboard is called: Juan Gabriel-Emotion, Sound, and Legacy. This visualization takes a deep tour in the career of Mexican idol Juan Gabriel analyzing his career and song…
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🔧Wrenches & Workbooks #4

Dashboard #4: All In The Wins: Road to The World Series Interact with the Dashboard: Click Here Today, we look at the Viz of the Day (#VOTD) from John Johansson. The visualization titled, “All In The Wins”, examines specific statistics for the last 5 World Series participants. Performance metrics range from player-specific KPIs to team…
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MySpotify Listening Journey

Examining My Spotify Playlist in the Last Twelve Months Ever since I was a kid, I’ve felt a deep connection to music — the kind that sticks with you long after the song fades. Today, with streaming, that connection feels more personal than ever. Certain songs hold entire memories: hearing Rob Base & DJ EZ…
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Breaking the Chains

Redefining Show/Hide in Tableau Dashboards One small frustration I’ve run into with Tableau dashboards is the show/hide functionality: the show and hide icons are locked together and must always be the same container. The image used when the container is hidden will change to the hide image when container is shown, because they both live…
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Winners, Losers, and the Trade Game

A visual history of MLB trades and their ripple effects. In every MLB season, team trade activity revolves around one key date — the official trade deadline at the end of July. For those less familiar with baseball, trades serve many purposes beyond just swapping players. Like any professional sport, baseball is a business, and…
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🔧Wrenches & Workbooks #3

Dashboard #3: Formula 1: Lap Times 2024 Today, we’re taking a closer look at a really cool dashboard developed by Dan Wade. Utilizing a ‘beeswarm’ visual chart; Mr. Wade takes a closer look at lap times in the 2024 F1 Race Season. Formula One (F1) is an international motorsport for single seat drivers. There are…
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Shared Filters in Tableau: The Silent Saboteurs

Avoid This Common Mistake If you’re anything like me when building dashboards, you eventually hit a rhythm—visualizing the end product and duplicating existing sheets to quickly build new visuals using familiar dimensions and measures. Development might span several days, and then, suddenly, something feels off. You revisit a previously built sheet and notice the results…
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🔧Wrenches & Workbooks #2

Dashboard #2: WALL·E Bar Chart Today, we’re taking a closer look at a fun dashboard created by Hideaki Yamamoto/Chasoso. This dashboard leverages the Tableau and IMDB partnered Movies Plus Data data source. Today we will be taking a look at the bar chart located in the center of the long form dashboard above. I was…