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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…
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🔧Wrenches & Workbooks🔧
Dashboard #1: MediTech Business Dashboard Today, we’re taking a closer look at a well-crafted dashboard crafted by Samuel Apanisile, who recently earned Tableau’s Viz of the Day (#VOTD) spotlight. This thoughtfully designed dashboard provides a comprehensive view of sales performance for a retail healthcare enterprise, covering everything from net sales and leads to product trends.…
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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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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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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…