Dashboard Week Day 4 - Breaking Bad Api

Todays dashboard week challenge was a short one for me as I was mainly doing handover at my new placement that I'll be starting next week.

So be prepared for a very short and sweet blog and also no dashboard.

I only had less than 1.5hrs dedicated to my dashboard challenge today which was a bit sad because when I saw the challenge today I was so excited!

The Challenge:

Using the Api from breaking bad found here, we had to create a dashboard.

My original idea was to create a fan page/wiki page style dashboard.

I wanted to be able to have a parameter action that when you click on the season appearance, the quote of that season/ep will update. This wasn't plausible once I actually looked at the data since the quotes don't have the eps/seasons linked to them. Later I realized I could just not do a parameter action and just keep all their quotes

Because of my issues With the quotes, I decided to do another dashboard take - being only focusing on the the dead characters.

Onto Alteryx:

Bringing the API onto Alteryx today was very easy because of the Monday API challenge so I do feel myself improving.

Although my workflow is still a work in progress.

I decided to bring in the whole API rather than separately like how some of my cohort members did - mainly due to pure laziness (I didn't want to write out the API on a text input multiple times). I then bought in the data from the separate APIs via another download tool and then split up the data into the 4 separate information.

Initially I wanted to join all the data in the end to create 1 big dataset but after hearing the other cohort members saying that there is no relating fields to all of the information - I then realized it wouldn't be feasible to join it all.

Instead it would be better to have 4 tableau hyper extracts and then form relationships in tableau.

I also learnt how to bring an image in from a URL in tableau.

I could either enter the URL directly into the pop up or create a parameter to change the image using the drop down arrow.

I also learnt a new way where you would write 'test' in the edit URL and then put the URL on detail for another bar chart. Then create a URL action on that bar chart referencing the 'test'. - I will try it when I create my dashboard and edit this blog on how to do the profile pictures of each characters and hopefully they will update when you select a specific character.

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Maha Hussari

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