DataFam Roundup: May 13–17, 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: 

• Action Analytics: Tableau Conference 2024: Key Takeaways

• Louis Yu: Secrets of the Viz: Nutrition Values of Dim Sum Dishes

• Ann Jackson: Riding the Waves of the 2024 Tableau Conference

• Yash Sakhuja: Tableau: Dimensional Calendar Tables

• Racheal Tucker, The Data Leadership Collaborative: Five Ways to Build a Better Data Product

• The Data Leadership Collaborative: Confessions of a Data Leader: Why I Left

• Deepak Holla: Understanding the significance of Remote Field Name of the Metadata grid in Tableau Desktop

Team Tableau

• Unlock the power of data like never before with our latest update to Tableau Desktop Public Edition. Now featuring - local save. With local save, you’ll be able to visualize public or private data and save unlimited workbooks to your local desktop. Once you’ve perfected your visualization, share it with the world by publishing to your Tableau Public account. Local file saving is available for all Tableau Desktop Public Edition users, for free. To get started download Tableau Desktop Public Edition or update the product to the latest version.

Upcoming events and community participation

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

• DataFam Birthday Roundup! In the effort of continuing support for one another, we thought it would be fun to gather data on DataFam birthdays! If you're willing, could you let us know which day you celebrate your birthday? Just go ahead and pick the day from this year's calendar, since it's a leap year and all possible days are available to choose from!

• Mentorship Program by the Data Visualization Society

• Women in Dataviz Virtual Coffee Breaks: Held every sixth Thursday morning and every sixth Wednesday afternoon in the EST time zone, Virtual Coffee Breaks are a casual networking event. Feel free to drop in and out as you need toduring the hour, and stay for as little time or as long as you want.

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:

• Brittany Rosenau: SIFF 50th Film Map

• Sean Miller: Do You Want to See an Iceberg?

• Whitney Wood: 2024 Boston Marathon

• Steph Blair: Paris 2024 Paralympics: Sport, Events and Classification

• Victory Omovrah: The Price of Petrol In Nigeria

• SantasQ: Causal Scenery single

• Luke Abraham: Iceberg Sightings | #B2VB Heatmap

• Alicia Lee: Lando Norris F1 Career

• Shreya Arya: Call Center Dashboard | #RWFD 

Community Projects

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 10: Build a Heat Map

Workout Wednesday

Build your skills with a weekly challenge to re-create an interactive data visualization. 
Web: Workout Wednesday
Twitter: #WOW2022
Week 20: Can you combine categorical and sequential colors in the same chart?

Preppin' Data

A weekly challenge to help you learn to prepare data and use Tableau Prep. 
Web: Preppin’ Data
Twitter: #PreppinData
Week 20: SuperBytes Customer Data

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 20: How the US Drives Gun Exports and Fuels Violence Around the World

EduVizzers 

A monthly project connecting real education data with real people.
Web: Eduvizzers
May 2024: FAFSA® Completion by High School and Public School District

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
May 2 - June 6, 2024: Global Deaf Research Institute

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

Diversity in Data

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

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