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Grip it N’ Rip It!!
A Tableau view of driving statistics during the 2023 PGA season. Data Used: PGA Website has data for all pertinent statistics for each player/event. For this post, I used driving statistics for all players in the PGA data portal for the 2023 tournament season. Credit: I wanted to visualize driving statistics by showing the average drive…
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Dashboard of Top Hollywood Directors
Dataset: Tableau | IMDB Data Today we look at the top directors in Hollywood by various parameter values. By incorporating measures like Film Count, Best Picture Nomination Count and IMDB Rating. We are able to assess the Top 50 directors by those parameter values. This was another opportunity for me to use fixed images as the background for…
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Data Exploration of the Filmography of Martin Scorsese
Today, we participate in the ‘Data+Movies’ Tableau series in conjunction with an assessed IMDB movie dataset. Note: the dataset is shared via Tableau Public. I decided to view the filmography of the great Martin Scorsese. He has directed some of my favorite movies and has been nominated for Best Picture/Best Director multiple times throughout his career. Personal…
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Creating a ‘Long-Form’ Dashboard
Using 2023 Tour de France Data So I am not sure if ‘long-form’ is the official term for these types of dashboards but for the sake of this conversation let’s pretend it is. I saw these types of dashboards for the first time years ago at a Tableau Conference when many Tableau Public dashboards were…
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Alteryx: Data manipulation with spatial data
I received some Tour de France data from an online cycling website today. The data was in GPX format and it was a list of coordinates by stage. During the 2023 event, there was twenty-one stages starting in Spain and ending in France. Each GPX file is a sequential list of coordinates (latitude, longitude); each…
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Create Pareto Chart and Box Plot Chart in Tableau
This week I took a stab at creating both a Pareto chart and Box Plot chart. A Pareto chart is a dual chart with bars and a line graph; individual values are represented by bars and the building cumulative total is represented by a line graph. Named after Italian engineer Vilfredo Pareto who made the…
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Strengthen Your Dashboards with Parameters
What are parameters? Parameters are a workbook variable that is defined as a number, date or string. It can act as a filter, reference or replace a value in your data source. With parameters you can also create ‘parameter actions’ that let’s the user dynamically change set parameters when interacting with the viz. I like…
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Creating a Waterfall Chart in Tableau
A waterfall chart is a type of bar chart that can explain net change of a measure from across all its contributing cohorts. This is a bar chart that is mostly used in the financial services industry. Analyzing change over time can show attribution of change to specific groups to the overall change of said…
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Resume Writing with Tableau
How many of you have been caught in that never ending cycle of submitting resumes during your job search? You find yourself in stuck in a numbers game; working hard to send so many resumes to only get a fraction of those submissions returned with a call for an interview. However, you don’t stop there…,…
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Resurrecting An Old Visualization
This week I take a look at a prior dashboard I made in the past (in my Tableau Public profile) and using the same data give the dashboard a tableau makeover. Dashboard: I take a look at average Fahrenheit temperatures in my hometown of El Paso, TX. It is located in West Texas and is…
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