Author: Mark Bradbourne

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 […]

by Brian Moore Of all of the things I love about Tableau, its incredible flexibility is by far number one on my list.  With a little bit of creativity, a healthy dose of tenacity, and occasionally a little help from the #datafam, you can make anything happen in Tableau.  The possibilities are literally endless.  So recently, when I […]

Welcome back to the recap series for Real World Fake Data. This time we are looking at work submitted for the Citizen Service Request dataset. Before I dive in, I want to take a moment for a bit of housekeeping. First, I want to thank everyone for participating. You’ll notice that we are playing fast […]

I want to start off by saying, I am super excited to join the RWFD team. I love this initiative, and I think it is important to have a place to share work that is normally confidential and to have a place to practice skills and build a portfolio that is applicable to real-world business […]

Data Source – Accident Data from January 2017 through August 2022 Audience – Claims Group – Workers Compensation & Benefits Team Description – Our Claims Group wants to better monitor work-related accidents in working with customers. The types of things the team is interested in include: What volume of accidents do we have to manage? […]

Dataset – 10 Months of 911 Calls (recently moved to a new call management system) Audience – General Public in the Atlanta Metro Area. DescriptionWe want to provide the citizens of Atlanta with a sense of transparency when it comes to emergency services in the metro area. Questions we ask internally and that we get frequently are: […]