BI: Lessons Learned

This week I ended up writing 2 viz's of totally different directions.   My first iteration had a few learning lessons (using a background image; some tricks about BAN (big !@# numbers; some axis tips\tricks). Then I listened to the weekly MM review and got inspired by Andy's demo at the end with a scatter-plot, so decided to try and replicate that and add some 'flavor' to the story. I actually liked both this week but am continually trying to not just present the data but 'tell the story' so the 2nd iteration was very important to me.   Below are my tips I discovered this week. Tableau Public link to viz's; Lessons Learned: Viz #1 (with image) I sometimes need to switch the axis to have the axis flip.   I ended up not using this but found the blog interesting; https://www.thedataschool.co.uk/elnisa-marques/moving-table-headers-bottom-measure-axis-top/ From a data perspective; I had to change Text to Measures; format to number...

This week's dataset was very fun! It was on Trump's time that is spent on Executive time.   Weather you live in the US or elsewhere.. I think this dataset was fun for most.   So.. Lessons learned. From the #MMVizReview; the biggest take away I learned was do NOT let your political opinions surface in your Viz.   Andy reprimanded many of us for showing how we feel about the current president.   From a professional perspective, we need to just ask the question or state the facts without showing bias or opinions one way or another (as hard as this may be these days). Here are some design take away' s. Calendar; doing the calendar was fun.   I really liked being able to do a calendar without the Sat\Sunday because there was no data in those days and I didn't want to fill up the space with those days.   Chandra McRae was my inspiration on this one. Formulas; Took data and pulled Month from it;   ...