We’re rolling into Dataset #5 of Season 4, and this one tackles one of the most debated workplace topics of the last few years: Return to Office (RTO). This dataset focuses on actual in-office behavior, not policy decks or executive memos. Badge swipes, check-ins, attendance patterns, and departmental differences—all wrapped into a clean, fictionalized dataset […]
We’re moving ahead with Dataset #4 of Season 4, and this one shines a light on the education pipeline and what happens after graduation. Say hello to the Illinois University Student Outcomes dataset, designed to explore student performance, demographics, and early career paths. Of course… this is FAKE DATA, but we wanted a location to […]
We’re officially rolling with Dataset #3 of Season 4, and this one brings the people side of the business into focus. Say hello to the Human Resources dataset built for org charts, salary analysis, promotion trends, workforce dashboards, and more. Whether you’re an HR analyst, Tableau newbie, or dashboard veteran, this dataset is packed with […]
We’re back with the next installment in Season 4 of Real World Fake Data and a collaboration with Back2Viz Basics, and this one’s tailor-made for ops analysts, workforce planners, and CX nerds. Say hello to Call Center Metrics, a data-rich, operationally grounded, scenario-flexible dataset that gives you all the tools to build dashboards that feel […]
Welcome back to Real World Fake Data, the Tableau Community’s Most Useful Fiction! The community project where we build beautiful dashboards with strategically fabricated datasets that feel real enough to act on. Season 4 kicks off with a dataset that marketers, analysts, and digital strategists will love; Social Media Campaign Performance. What’s In the Data? […]
Back in the dark days of the pandemic Real World Fake Data was launched with generated dataset from a service that really could only give me randomized data values with some manipulation, and it was ok… but just ok. Despite that, the datafam took RWFD and ran with it filling Tableau Public with loads and […]
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I have forever found REGEX to be a tough nut to crack. The syntax always confused me and on the rare occasion, I got the syntax right the results were wrong. At work, someone asked about extracting a consecutive 4-digit number from a string and for some reason my brain went “I wonder if ChatGPT […]
The site is back, thank goodness. A few weeks back I was hacked, and in my attempt to rescue the site, it got completely destroyed. I was devastated because I did not have a good backup (1st lesson learned). After getting updating the PHP version, and reinstalling the platform I started going through the Wayback […]