DataFam Roundup: July 1–5, 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: 

Deepak Holla: The time saving “Drop Field” method when working with Fields/Pills in Tableau Desktop

• Zach Leber: Multifocal Distance Analysis using Spatial Sets
• Joon Kim: Anatomy of a Set Action Driven Drill Down in Tableau – The Deep Dive
• Steffen Volkerding: Mastering Table Calculations - one step at a time
• Dariia Mykhailyshyna - Workshops for Ukraine
• Deepak Holla: The time saving “Drop Field” method when working with Fields/Pills in Tableau Desktop

Team Tableau

• Tableau Ambassador nominations and applications are open
• Tableau Ambassador Spotlight | Chris Monger
• Data, Diversity, and Pride: Honoring the LGBTQ+ Community on Tableau Public
• Tableau+: New Edition with Premium AI, Enterprise Capabilities, and Premier Success
• Your Questions Answered: Highlights from Q&A at Tableau Conference 2024

Upcoming events and community participation

• CRM Analytics Community Office Hours! Have CRM Analytics questions? Want to know how to work with data? Want to learn something new? Have visualization ideas you want to share or need feedback on? Want to just hang out with a bunch of us? Come join us (virtual)!
• 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:

• Victory Omovrah: Railway Dashboard
• Faith Rotich: Death from Natural Disasters | #Makeover Monday
• Arshi Saleh: The History of Natural Gas Production (1900 -2022) | #MakeoverMonday
• Jonathan Akpogbo Chris: Natural Gas production Around the World (1900-2022)
• Adedamola (Damola) Ladipo: EURO 2024 Group Stage Stats
• Jennifer Dawes: Historial Women in STEM
• Oluwadunsin Agbolabori: Best Places (Cities) in USA for 4th of July Celebrations in 2024
• Gbolahan Adebayo: HR Resources Dashboard
• Tamaball3: mom2024w27
• Sam Parsons: UK Election 2024

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
X: #B2VB
Week 13: Build a Box & Whisker Plot

Workout Wednesday

Build your skills with a weekly challenge to re-create an interactive data visualization. 
Web: Workout Wednesday
X: #WOW2022
Week 27: Can you show YTD and PYTD, whilst also being able to change the date range and switch between Month & Week?

Preppin' Data

A weekly challenge to help you learn to prepare data and use Tableau Prep. 
Web: Preppin’ Data
X: #PreppinData
Week 27: Tour de France special

Makeover Monday

Create business dashboards using provided data sets for various industries and departments.
Web: Makeover Monday
X: #MakeoverMonday
Week 26: UEFA EURO 2024 - statistics & facts

DataFam Con 

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

EduVizzers 

A monthly project connecting real education data with real people.
Web: Eduvizzers
July 2024: Texas Education Agency

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
X: #VizforSocialGood

Games Night Viz 

A monthly project focusing on using data from your favorite games.
Web: Games Nights Viz
X: #GamesNightViz
Season 2: Cooking up the Spice of Data

Iron Quest

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

Storytelling with Data

Practice data visualization and storytelling skills by participating in monthly challenges and exercises. 
Web: Storytelling with Data
X: #SWDChallenge
July 2024: graphing for—or with—kids

Project Health Viz

Uncover new stories by visualizing healthcare data sets provided each month. 
Web: Project Health Viz
X: #ProjectHealthViz

Diversity in Data

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

Sports Viz Sunday

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

Real World Fake Data

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

Data Plus Music 

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