FDIC Bank Closings

I continued to explore the data sets at data.gov after I finished my Gov Data contest entry.  I stumbled across this data set that was nice and clean and obvious.  Sort of makes me wish I submitted this for the contest instead of the renewable energy visual.

The story so far...

Three Tableau contests, and over 1000 page views later I thought I would take a moment to review my latest contest entry and put together a data viz using the page view data for my blog.

Historical Renewable Energy Consumption: Public Data Viz Contest Submission

Tableau is having another data viz contest with a focus on government or public data.  I had some success in working with data from the U.S. Energy Information Agency before, so I thought I would use one of their data sets again.  I have had my eye on the renewable energy consumption data for awhile and this contest was the motivation to get off my duff and design a data viz with it.  


So here is my official submission for the Tableau contest.  Take a look, let me know what you think, and wish me luck!

Birds do it...Bees do it...

A few weeks back I put together a chart using data available from the USA National Phenology Network about the Tiger Salamanders that were observed in Battleboro, NC.  This data set is perfect for someone like me looking for data to use in Tableau.  It has a nice variety of data types:  categories, dates of observation, latitude/longitude.  Makes it fun to play with.  For instance, here is a data viz featuring birds and bees that were observed while engaged in reproductive activities.

Let me know what you think.

Speaking of lessons learned...

I saw this blog post earlier today and absolutely loved it.  One reason is because I have heard this so many times before.  The other because he covers some of the design issues I struggle with when designing public data visuals.  I can also very much relate to those three stages he goes through upon hearing other people's reactions to his data visual.


Anyways...enough about me.  Check out Steve Wexler's Hey Your Tableau Public Viz is Ugly *and* Confusing.

  

Data Vader

I was excited and honored that I won Tableau's "Evil Viz" contest last week.  Thank you Tableau for the awesomely evil Funko Darth Vader (that you see in the picture at the left)!  After seeing some of the other entries, I wasn't very optimistic about my chances.  However, even though I was in it to win it, I also wanted to show that I could learn from my previous entry in the sports contest.  I wrote about 4 lessons that I learned from my hockey stats entry previously.  Let's see how I applied those lessons to my Evil Viz submission.  

Dr. Sinister's Data Visual of Doom

Like most evil mad scientists, Dr. Sinister has dreams of one day ruling the world.  But apparently, he has some personal scores to settle first.  Fortunately for us, I happened across his data visual that details his evil plans.  Hopefully we can warn his victims before it is too late!  (Well...maybe not all his victims.)