Author: Mark Bradbourne

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 […]

Project 1 is in the books, so let’s take a quick look back are review 3 of the beautiful vizzes created from the Tableau Accelerator available on the Tableau Exchange. Using the above viz as our canvas, there are a few things that stick out as “have to fix” from the best practices standpoint.–BAN Alignment […]

I’m super excited to bring back Real World Fake Data for the 2nd Season. Real World Fake Data originally started with fake datasets for a quick recap. The aim of the project was to flood Tableau Public with beautiful, useable, business dashboards… and we as a community CRUSHED IT! If you search for #RWFD on […]

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 […]

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 […]

Welcome back! RWFD Session #8 is in the books and I want to thank each and every one of you sharing your vizzes on Twitter and LinkedIn. Session #8 was based on retail transaction data, including loyalty memberships, coupon usage and the data went down to the hourly transaction level. Lots of directions you could […]