DataFam Roundup: April 15–19, 2024

Welcome! Dig into this week's DataFam Roundup—a weekly blog that brings together community content all in one post. As always, we invite you to send us your content—and the DataFam content from your peers that have inspired you! Find the content submission form here. 

Community Highlight

To recognize new and consistent Tableau contributors—we’re excited to have a section within the weekly DataFam Roundup called the Tableau Community Highlight. Find out how to get involved. 

DataFam content 

Dive into content created by the Tableau Community: 

• Maya Mikhailov, The Data Leadership Collaborative: 5 Lessons I Learned from AI Hype

• Viz for Social Good: World Art Day

• Joon Kim: How can we embed shape-shifting superpowers into a dashboard?

• Garvit Pant: Deployment of Tableau Server

• Steve Martin: 

  • Configure the Preferences File Like a Pro

  • Why is the editing experience of Web Auth so different from Tableau Desktop?

• Ken Flerlage, The Flerlage Twins: 4 Ways to Create Highlight Tables in Tableau Using Discrete Color

• Steffen Volkerding: Quickie: how often do our sales staff need more days than the allowed threshold between sales?

• Deepak Holla: Tableau Topic: Descending Vs Ascending Order in Rank Table Calculations

• Sean Miller: #WOW2024 Tableau Live Stream | week 16

• Dawn Harrington: Enhancing Your Line Chart

Team Tableau

• Meet Iron Viz 2024 Finalist Jessica Moon

• Meet Iron Viz 2024 Finalist Pata Gogová

• What is Einstein Copilot for Tableau?

• What are Data Skills + Free Resources | DataFam Explained 

Upcoming events and community participation

• Lights, Camera, Action: Tableau and IMDb Launch Data Visualization Campaign for Movie Lovers 

• Free headshots at the Data + Women event at Tableau Conference 2024: Sunday, April 24, 2024 from 7:00pm-9:00pm at the San Diego Wine & Culinary Event Center. Register here!

Vizzes

See the latest Viz of the Day, trending vizzes, featured authors, and more on Tableau Public.

Check out some inspirational vizzes created by the community:

• Serena Purslow: The Price of Prosperity - C02 emissions, GDP and Population trends Globally

• Takafumi Shukuya: My Tableau Public Journey

• Sherzodbek Ibragimov: The Best Performing Marvel Movies

• Arshi Saleh: Public Perception of Demographics in America - #30DayChartChallenge | Day5

• P A T H | We Are Data People: Formula 01

• Tobiloba Babajide: Retail Dashboard

• Shivam Tiwari: 30 Day Chart Challenge Day 15/16

• Mohit Kumar: The Magic of Shreya

Community Projects

Recreations of W.E.B Dubois's Data Portraits

Recreations of W.E.B Dubois's Data Portraits
Web: W.E.B. Dubois's Data Portraits
Twitter: #DubiosChallenge

Back 2 Viz Basics 

A bi-weekly project helping those who are newer in the community and just starting out with Tableau. Not limited just to newbies!
Web: Back 2 Viz Basics
Twitter: #B2VB
Week 8: Create a Percent of Total Chart

Workout Wednesday

Build your skills with a weekly challenge to re-create an interactive data visualization. 
Web: Workout Wednesday
Twitter: #WOW2022
Week 16:  Can you create a sales dashboard by effectively utilizing headers?

Preppin' Data

A weekly challenge to help you learn to prepare data and use Tableau Prep. 
Web: Preppin’ Data
Twitter: #PreppinData
Week 16: Budget vs Actuals

DataFam Con 

A monthly challenge covering pop culture and fandoms. 
Web: DataFam Con
Twitter: #DataFamCon
March 2024 Challenge: Sports Movies Edition

Makeover Monday

Create business dashboards using provided data sets for various industries and departments.
Web: Makeover Monday
Twitter: #MakeoverMonday
Week 15: The Conservatives’ economic record since 2010 in 10 charts

EduVizzers 

A monthly project connecting real education data with real people.
Web: Eduvizzers
April 2024: School Bullying

Viz for Social Good

Volunteer to design data visualizations that help nonprofits harness the power of data for social change.
Web: Viz for Social Good
Twitter: #VizforSocialGood
March 15 - April 19, 2023: Visualizing the Social Impact of Viz for Social Good

Games Night Viz 

A monthly project focusing on using data from your favorite games.
Web: Games Nights Viz
Twitter: #GamesNightViz
Season 2: With great power comes great vizzes

Iron Quest

Practice data sourcing, preparation, and visualization skills in a themed monthly challenge. 
Web: Iron Quest
Twitter: #IronQuest
Women

Storytelling with Data

Practice data visualization and storytelling skills by participating in monthly challenges and exercises. 
Web: Storytelling with Data
Twitter: #SWDChallenge
April 2024: Napoleon's April

Project Health Viz

Uncover new stories by visualizing healthcare data sets provided each month. 
Web: Project Health Viz
Twitter: #ProjectHealthViz
October 2023: Customizing Shapes with Opacity in Tableau

Diversity in Data

An initiative centered around diversity, equity & awareness by visualizing provided datasets each month. 
Web: Diversity in Data
Twitter: #DiversityinData
November 2023: Disney Demographics

Sports Viz Sunday

Create and share data visualizations using rich, sports-themed data sets in a monthly challenge. 
Web: Sports Viz Sunday
Twitter: #SportsVizSunday

Real World Fake Data

Create business dashboards using provided data sets for various industries and departments.
Web: Real World Fake Data
Twitter: #RWFD
2024 - Admin Insights

Data Plus Music 

A monthly project visualizing the data behind the music we love!
Web: Data Plus Music
Twitter: #DataPlusMusic