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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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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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My Chart Makeover v. ChatGPT
Assessment of the Texas Rangers Run Differential (so far in 2025) I recently participated in the May 2025 Storytelling with Data challenge, where the goal was to take an existing chart or visual in need of a makeover, rework it my way using Tableau, and then prompt ChatGPT to generate its version. The challenge was…
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Jitter Plot Magic
Uncovering Hidden Trends in NBA Data In the world of data visualization, uncovering hidden patterns and trends can often feel like finding a needle in a haystack. That’s where jitter plots come in! In this post, I’ll explore how jitter plots can be a game-changer when it comes to analyzing NBA player performance data over…
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Mad Men: A Dashboard of Iconic Scenes and Themes
“Mad Men” is by far one of my favorite drama series of all time. The sharp writing, the complex characters, and, of course, the unforgettable scenes make it one of the greatest TV shows ever. As a data enthusiast, I wanted to combine my love for “Mad Men” with my passion for analytics—so I built…
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A Data View of The Brat Pack
In collaboration with Tableau’s partnership with IMDB; Today, we leverage the DataPlusMovies dataset to get an isolated view of The Brat Pack and their respective filmography. In June of 2024; Vulture.com came out with a revised article about the 80’s phenomenon known as the ‘Brat Pack’. This was a play on the Rat Pack from…
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Cine De Oro: The Golden Era of Mexican Cinema
This week we took a look at the golden age of Mexican filmmaking known as, Cine de Oro. This era in Mexican cinema represents a shift into the global landscape of filmmaking. In the 1930s to the early 1960s; Mexican cinema took center stage fueled by artistic innovation, cultural significance, and international recognition. This dashboard…
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Visualizing Nascar Data
Dashboard of Nascar data for the 2023 season Today we look at Nascar data from the 2023 season. The season consisted of thirty-six races with at least twenty stock cars each race. I recently watched the recent season of Full Speed on Netflix; which was an in-depth view into the 2023 race season. This season…
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