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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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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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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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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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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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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…