DataFam Roundup: May 13–17, 2024

A weekly blog that brings together what’s trending in the Tableau Community all in one post.

Welcome! Dig into this week's DataFam Roundup—a weekly blog that brings together community content all in one post. As always, we invite you to send us your content—and the DataFam content from your peers that have inspired you! Find the content submission form here

Community Highlight

To recognize new and consistent Tableau contributors—we’re excited to have a section within the weekly DataFam Roundup called the Tableau Community Highlight. Find out how to get involved. 

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Mina Ozgen, Partner & Director of Product at Aimpoint Digital
Chicago, USA

Mina Ozgen is a Partner & Director of Product at Aimpoint Digital. She got started with Tableau through work early in her career and quickly dove into community projects like Makeover Monday and Workout Wednesday to accelerate her learning. Mina also participates in the Tableau Community by attending Tableau User Groups and publishing vizzes on Tableau Public. 

On Tableau Public, Mina spends time visualizing data about topics that interest her such as gaming. She spends a significant amount of time visualizing StarCraft II data, a video game. In addition, Mina creates vizzes on topics related to popular culture and current events, such as “What Distinguishes a Good Red Wine?”, “Eclipse Obscurity 1950 to 2050”, and “Norwegian Language Development.” 

Connect with Mina on Linkedin, X, and Tableau Public

DataFam content 

Dive into content created by the Tableau Community: 

Yash Sakhuja: Tableau: Dimensional Calendar Tables

Team Tableau

  • Unlock the power of data like never before with our latest update to Tableau Desktop Public Edition. Now featuring - local save. With local save, you’ll be able to visualize public or private data and save unlimited workbooks to your local desktop. Once you’ve perfected your visualization, share it with the world by publishing to your Tableau Public account. Local file saving is available for all Tableau Desktop Public Edition users, for free. To get started download Tableau Desktop Public Edition or update the product to the latest version.

Upcoming events and community participation

Vizzes

Luke Abraham: Iceberg Sightings | #B2VB Heatmap

See the latest Viz of the Day, trending vizzes, featured authors, and more on Tableau Public.

Check out some inspirational vizzes created by the community:

Community Projects

Back 2 Viz Basics 

A bi-weekly project helping those who are newer in the community and just starting out with Tableau. Not limited just to newbies!
Web: Back 2 Viz Basics
Twitter: #B2VB
Week 10: Build a Heat Map

 

Workout Wednesday

Build your skills with a weekly challenge to re-create an interactive data visualization. 
Web: Workout Wednesday
Twitter: #WOW2022
Week 20: Can you combine categorical and sequential colors in the same chart?

 

Preppin' Data

A weekly challenge to help you learn to prepare data and use Tableau Prep. 
Web: Preppin’ Data
Twitter: #PreppinData
Week 20: SuperBytes Customer Data

 

DataFam Con 

A monthly challenge covering pop culture and fandoms. 
Web: DataFam Con
Twitter: #DataFamCon
March 2024 Challenge: Sports Movies Edition

 

Makeover Monday

Create business dashboards using provided data sets for various industries and departments.
Web: Makeover Monday
Twitter: #MakeoverMonday
Week 20: How the US Drives Gun Exports and Fuels Violence Around the World

 

EduVizzers 

A monthly project connecting real education data with real people.
Web: Eduvizzers
May 2024: FAFSA® Completion by High School and Public School District

 

Viz for Social Good

Volunteer to design data visualizations that help nonprofits harness the power of data for social change.
Web: Viz for Social Good
Twitter: #VizforSocialGood
May 2 - June 6, 2024: Global Deaf Research Institute

 

Games Night Viz 

A monthly project focusing on using data from your favorite games.
Web: Games Nights Viz
Twitter: #GamesNightViz
Season 2: With great power comes great vizzes

 

Iron Quest

Practice data sourcing, preparation, and visualization skills in a themed monthly challenge. 
Web: Iron Quest
Twitter: #IronQuest
Women

 

Storytelling with Data

Practice data visualization and storytelling skills by participating in monthly challenges and exercises. 
Web: Storytelling with Data
Twitter: #SWDChallenge
April 2024: Napoleon's April

 

Project Health Viz

Uncover new stories by visualizing healthcare data sets provided each month. 
Web: Project Health Viz
Twitter: #ProjectHealthViz

 

Diversity in Data

An initiative centered around diversity, equity & awareness by visualizing provided datasets each month. 
Web: Diversity in Data
Twitter: #DiversityinData

 

Sports Viz Sunday

Create and share data visualizations using rich, sports-themed data sets in a monthly challenge. 
Web: Sports Viz Sunday
Twitter: #SportsVizSunday

 

Real World Fake Data

Create business dashboards using provided data sets for various industries and departments.
Web: Real World Fake Data
Twitter: #RWFD
2024 - Admin Insights

 

Data Plus Music 

A monthly project visualizing the data behind the music we love!
Web: Data Plus Music
Twitter: #DataPlusMusic