Category: Tableau
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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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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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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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Promotion Dreams & Relegation Fears
A Visualization of English Football’s Tiers English football is structured in a multi-tiered system, with the top five tiers forming the professional and semi-professional backbone of the sport. The top five tiers of the “English Football Pyramid” are the Premier League, Championship, League One, League Two and National League. National is considered the top level…
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MLB 2023: AL West Division Race
Using Tableau to visualize the playoff race Dataset: http://www.baseball-reference.com Today we take a look at the race to the playoffs in the West division for the American League in the MLB. The division champion earns an automatic bid to the playoffs and depending on record a bye to the second round of the playoffs. The…
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Airport On-Time Performance Dashboard
Using DFW data we look at key measures that are important to the efficiency of airport operations. For those that travel by air, you know that there are many pieces that move behind the scenes to ensure your flight leaves on time. There are many factors that may lead to a delay or worst a…
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Using Images in your Dashboard Background
Below is a screenshot of a zoomed out dashboard with 4 images acting as the background for eventual views to be floated over the images: Here are some steps in producing the dashboard template above: Join me below as I walk through a quick construction of the dashboard screenshot above:
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Creating a Dashboard with Call Center Data
Today we create a simple dashboard using call center data. Before we dig into the data; let’s discuss call center data conceptually. Call center data creates various opportunities for data developers to visualize. There are many ways to examine data generated by the normal operations of a contact center. As someone who has worked with…
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