Dashboard Week: Day 2 Timeline

Dashboard week day 2 involved analyzing IMDB ratings and only using Tableau Prep to clean the data. The data came in the form of zipped TSV files - which was very new to me. This blog involves the timeline of what I did today from the morning till the presentation

9:00 - 10:00 am

Received the dataset and spent majority of the time trying to figure out how to unzip the TSV files but managed to complete this by using 7 zip.

10:00 - 11:00 am

Had a look through the data and started brain storming some ideas - gained some inspiration from Tableau Public especially. I also drew out a little schema with the tables I need to create my dashboard with the fields I needed.

11:00 - 12:00 pm

Quickly drew up my Excalidraw and started my Tableau Prep workflow but I forgot the save my workflow and accidentally closed it, so I had to start again :)

13:30 - 2:30 pm

Started building my charts out, had some issues with the second chart I wanted to create, the field I needed was being attributed and was showing as a * in the tooltips. I did not know how to fix this so I adjusted my chart since I had little time left.

2:30 - 3:30 pm

Formatting and practicing my presentation.

Overall, I think I did well with planning and narrowing down the scope, I am still unsure as to how to fix my chart and I think my dashboard needed more interactivity. Here is my dashboard on the IMDB ratings of Dragon Ball Z!

https://public.tableau.com/app/profile/reshika.chilakapati/viz/Dashboard_16902942623610/Dashboard1?publish=yes

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Reshika Chilakapati
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