Woo! Finally had a spare moment to jump into Makeover Monday and back on the blog. Was a fun dataset to get into. I just HAD to eat a bag of popcorn when I was adding my finishing touches, you know, for inspiration :-) Details Original Article: New York Times Makeover Monday Dataset: Data.World My Dashboard A few notes I liked the original heatmap for the individual ranks, but felt that a bar chart could be more useful in getting the total comparisons. I wanted to allow the user to sort by their top metric using the parameter, and created a calculated field to ensure the top overall ranked areas remained at the top of the list when there were ties (which there were many). I'm sure there are several ways to do this, but I chose to create a special field which added the total score. I don't love that the metric labels are vertically positioned, I know its more difficult to read. But I really wanted the heatmap to be very thin, so I went with it. *meh*...
Wow! What a week! I can't believe that Tableau Conference 2018 has already come and gone. New Orleans was such an amazing city and I loved every minute of learning, celebrating and eating all the Cajun food I could find with my fellow Data Rockstars. Read my recap first and/or take a look at some specially published vizzes, included in my conference presentation below Conference Recap Checking out the classroom! "I'm going to be on this stage for 8 hours" The festivities began for me on Sunday, when after a quick flight from DC, filled with Tabloids and other conference attendees, I spent a few minutes getting oriented to the conference center, visiting the training rooms and meeting up with my fellow colleagues from all over the world. After all was settled, a few of us fared the mile walk from the convention center to Jackson Square (the heart of the French Quarter) and ate a delicious creole fare at Muriel's. Bright and early Monday morning...