Woman in Data

This weeks #WorkoutWednesday is inspired by an IronViz entry from Rody Zakovich. I'm a huge Disney fan and think Rody's viz is the right balance of informative and eye-catching. I decided to download Rody's workbook and play around with the data behind it. I could have spent so many more hours than I have done already with this data.

In the end I came up with the viz below when I was trying to learn a new chart type.


Your challenge this week is to create some tasty waffle charts! This week you'll need two data sources:

Datasource 1 (for making Waffles)
Datasource 2 (all the box office data)

Make sure you follow these rules too:

• My dashboard size is 500 * 620 pixels
• You'll have to blend the data somehow to create the waffles
• I'm only looking at data from 2016 box office sales
• I'm only looking at the top 4 Distributors (Buena Vista, Warner Bros, Universal and 20th Century Fox)
• Re-create my dashboard exactly (including text and tooltips etc)

Working with continuous dates can be tricky in Tableau depending on how you want to display them. This weeks #WorkoutWednesday is inspired by a challenge from Data School superstar Neil Lord.

• Show a running total of sales at a daily level, but split by year of order date
• Each line for each year should be a different colour. The latest year in the data set should be dark, but the previous years should be transparent. (Note that there is a way to do this without creating a custom palette in Tableau)
• Make sure your title matches mine. (If I were to add sales data for 2016 my title would also auto update)
• Make sure your tooltips match
• Make sure all your axis labels match too