Documenting Project Works
It’s important to leverage the best data visualization approach applicable to the task at hand. Here is one of the better guides I’ve found to aid your efforts. Thanks to the Financial Time Visual Journalism team for creating this. Check out their GitHub Toolbox for more!
I just completed the Custom Mapbox course from Alli Torban, who also created my recently-finished Adobe Illustrator Data Viz tutorial. I mostly just followed along with her steps and here’s my result. I also then created roughly the same viz in Tableau, linking to my Mapbox style, shown below.
Big thanks to Alli Torban for putting together this great overview of Illustrator’s dataviz capabilities. I found it to be a great script to get started in creating more sophisticated, and artful, data visualizations. The skills I learned really unlocked some project ideas I have.
Using the Saturday Night Live cast data from Wikipedia, I tried out Datawrapper’s simple bar chart showing the season duration of all the cast members in the show’s 45 year history. I had already done some data prep in Google Sheets so it was very easy.
I like the embedding option which makes dataviz additions very easy with Datawrapper, but WordPress does not allow for embedding iFrames, so I’ve shared the link here.
Made a quick viz showing some of the data re: the Ohio State vs Michigan rivalry. I’d like to make another draft with updated formatting and some BANs etc.
https://public.tableau.com/profile/jpkeeton#!/vizhome/OhioStatevMichiganFootball/OSUvMichigan
Describing the process, I copied the data from Wikipedia into Google Sheets. I then split, trimmed and used some Regexreplace to get the data in shape. Then, I linked Tableau to the Google sheet and just started exploring before I found a few views I wanted to keep.
The final step was gathering the hex codes and logos to add in addition to a lot of general formatting.
My goal was to post something before tomorrow’s game. Some things I might include next time are more complex and hopefully informative vizzes.
#GoBucks!
Along with my completion of the University of Washington’s Data Visualization Certificate in 2017, today I earned the Tableau Desktop Specialist Certificate.
I hope to successfully complete the Tableau Desktop Certified Associate exam in the coming months.
I’ve been drilling some Python data visualization libraries. Here are a few I’ve been playing with.
Here is a quick Matplotlib example, simply displaying the number of NCAA women’s volleyball championship wins across a few Division 1 schools.
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