Author: Mark Bradbourne

Our 4th dataset was based on Call center data…. and WOW! So many great submissions for this dataset! When I search for #RWFD on Tableau Public now I can see my dream coming true… lots and lots of real world dashboards for people across all industries that can be used as inspiration. Let’s jump in […]

Let’s talk about Sets, baby… Working with a customer recently, the requirement was to show a list of excluded cities on one worksheet from a list of states and cities on another worksheet. My initial thought was sets, then they through a curve ball and wanted the filter controls to only show relevant values. Now, […]

As of today, we’ve released half of the datasets (Social Media/Marketing was published this morning)! Each week I see more and more new names, as well as some people who have been with me since the start… so for that, thank you! You never know how these community projects might go, and I’ve been very […]

I love watching the #DataFam in action, simply because it produces so much fantastic content. It can be blog posts, podcasts, vizzes and even swag being sold to support an intuitive! But every once in a while I get reminded of just how awesome the community is from a learning perspective. Someone recently tweet that […]

Every data set I’ve been blown away by the quality of submissions, and with each data set I see more an more participation and I’m equally blown away by that. So before I jump in to this recap I want to share a heart-felt thank you. Thank you for jumping in, thank you for sharing […]

Dataset #7 brought us data that mimicked that of an Emergency Room in a Hospital. Thanks to all that participated this round, and there were some great submissions! A couple of things to point out that I saw in several submissions that are worth mentioning. First one is regarding the exclusion of data points, particularly […]

Welcome back to the RWFD Recap! The latest dataset to be completed was all about High Education. Now, this is currently a fascinating topic for me as my oldest daughter has started dabbling in her college search and understanding how students are measured, and what colleges and universities are looking as has become an area […]

This is as much for me as it is all of you because I can’t tell you how many times I publish, then republish, and the probably WebEdit a dashboard before it’s “done”. The reason is that I forget the “little things” that I have to do every time I publish a viz… so combining […]

Last summer, when I started to formulate the idea for Real World Fake Data, I wasn’t quite sure how it would be received, what participation level would be like, and what the end result would be. The original inspiration came from a request that I had received as someone was looking for an example of […]

You may have noticed that I started a new Podcast, so I figured I can talk a little bit about it here. To me, Just 5 Minutes is a conversation starter. I have lots of random things flashing in my head at all times and J5M is a way that I can release them into […]