Today we were tasking with handling sleep data. We had less time today to complete this task so I knew scoping would be the biggest part of my planning. I wanted to show an overview into the averages of the data, and also the option to go into a demographic data to see how they sleep.
Requirements:
- Get the data from here
- They should sketch out ideas for the data before opening Tableau and have their blog posts wrote by 1pm
- The team has complete free reign on what they should do with this data.
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Before even bringing the data into tableau we were asked to sketch out or ideas. I knew I wanted to focus on an overall view and I wanted to give an individual subject breakdown. After looking at the data I realised that we actually only have 1 reading per person so I would not be able to go through with this approach. I decided to then let the user decide what demographics they wanted to look at - age group, gender or smokers.. or all of the above.
The biggest challenge today was time. It was also tricky to figure out a main question to answer. I focused on giving and overall view of how people sleep and then using a few charts to answer more specific questions. Overall I am glad I managed to get 2 dashboards together.