Author: Mark Bradbourne

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: […]

Dataset –  Audience – Citizens on New York City Description Data Dictionary Basic NeedsUltimately we’d like to have an overview of all aspects of the financials, and then a deeper dive into the Balance Sheet and Income Statement. Accelerator –

It’s good to be back! First, thanks to all the participants jumping into Real World Fake Data (RWFD) for Season 2! Hopefully, you find it a worthwhile endeavor for building your analytic skills! Session 1 was all about HR Attrition. For Season 2 I’ve introduced the idea of requirements, including a color palette and logo. […]

Dataset – 5 Full Years of Financials (7/1/2017 – 6/30/2022) Audience -FP&A Team DescriptionAfter years of excel files and formatted word documents, we are in need of a more visual approach to our Balance Sheet and Income Statements. Data DictionaryTotal Equity: Total Assets – Total LiabilitiesGross Margin: Sales – Operating CostsNet Income: Sales-(Operating Expenses+Taxes+Operating Costs)Operating […]

Dataset – Last 12 Months HR FIle Audience – HR Management / 2nd-3rd Line Management / HR Analysts DescriptionWe are curious if there are any current drivers causing attrition across the company, and we need the ability to monitor attrition going forward to stop new trigger points. We need help identifying KPIs we should track […]

If you ever look at the Tableau Public API data you will see a Revision number. This number represents the number of times you’ve made a change to your workbook or dashboard. It tracks minor revisions (x.2) and major revisions as far as I can tell. Here are my revision stats for Tableau Public. Most […]