DataFam Roundup: March 25–29, 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: 

• Preppin Data: 

  • How to… Change your Headers in Prep — Preppin' Data

  • How to… find duplicates in Prep Builder

• Kimly Scott: Women’s History Month – Mini Spotlight

• Cheryl Lin, The Data Leadership Collaborative: 5 Ways to Accelerate Women’s Leadership in Data Cultures

• Nate Mayfield, The Data Leadership Collaborative, The Power of Data Storytelling in the C-Suite

• Deepak Holla: Demystifying Dates in Tableau

• Action Bits: 

  • Tableau in Slack 

  • Inline Bar Charts in Tableau 

  • Aggregate Rows and Combining Values in Tableau 

  • Identifying Duplicates in Data

• Nicole Klassen: Design Delights: White Space (with bonus tip: using padding to create a navigation menu)
• Rahul Pawar: 
  • What and Why LOD (Level of Detail) expressions in tableau?
  • Index vs Ranks
     

Team Tableau

• How to grow your data skills with Tableau Community Projects | DataFam Explained

• Hit the trails with the new Tableau Hands-On Challenges on Trailhead. Get hands-on experience and real-time feedback as you create new vizzes and build your Tableau Public portfolio, for free! To get started, log in or create a Trailhead account and explore one of these 5 new badges:

  • Data Storytelling with Tableau Public - Visualize data on any topic, share your data story worldwide, and get inspired.

  • The Tableau Data Model - Load your dataset and create relationships between tables.

  • Metadata Management in Tableau - Prepare a Tableau dataset with well-managed metadata.

  • Detailed Data Analysis - Ask questions and configure visuals to communicate insights.

  • Data Presentation in Tableau - Build dashboards in Tableau that guide stakeholders through critical analysis.

Upcoming events and community participation

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

• 2024 Vizzies Award Nomination: The Tableau World Podcast established the Vizzies as a way to recognise individuals in the Tableau community who are not recognised through the visionary program. It is our goal that these awards are diverse and inclusive of the Tableau community.Without further ado, we present the 9th Annual Vizzies.Nominations are open now through March 25th 11:59pm EST. Winners will announced live on stage at TC24!

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:

• Sarah Moore: Sybill Trelawney Resume | Expert Seer & Predictive Analyst

• Moser Consulting: A Glance at Preattentive Attributes

• Fathima Shanavas: 8 Ways to Visualize Progress Bars in Tableau with Steps

• Nayeli Jaime: Business Dashboard: Car Rental Performance

• Rob Taylor: "The Comeback Quins"

• Brittany Rosenau: Piano Day 2024

• Tanya Lomskaya: What Will We Cook From? 100 most-used ingredients in the world's top cuisines

• Zsofia Nika: Performance Dashboard #B2VB

• Zach Bowders: Trek

• Mark Bradbourne: When to start Dark Side of the Moon
   

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 6: Design Insightful BANs

Workout Wednesday

Build your skills with a weekly challenge to re-create an interactive data visualization. 
Web: Workout Wednesday
Twitter: #WOW2022
Week 13: Can you build this segmented bar chart?

Preppin' Data

A weekly challenge to help you learn to prepare data and use Tableau Prep. 
Web: Preppin’ Data
Twitter: #PreppinData
Week 13: Easter Sales

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 13: Open Data as an Enabler to Regional Development and Better Cohesion in Europe

EduVizzers 

A monthly project connecting real education data with real people.
Web: Eduvizzers
March 2024: Teacher Loan Forgiveness

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
March 2024: design for accessibility

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