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Visualizing Bigfoot of the United States
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A fun little Viz I did about Bigfoot sightings.
Basically, I harvested all the sighting info off of The Bigfoot Field Research Organization site with Python and the Scrapemark module – inserted it into a local SQL Server database – cleaned it up and threw up a pretty looking Viz using Tableau Public.
Visualizing Squatch of the Nation!
I’m pretty happy with it – its quite interactive and hopefully someone finds it fun or interesting.
Some Tableau Public Embed Code Hacking for more “Creative Blog Usage”
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As I’ve been very vocal about all over Twitter and elsewhere – I’ve been spending a lot of time playing with Tableau Public over the past few weeks. Lots of learning, experimentation, tweaking, and some full blown data / analysis presentations have occurred. During that time I learned a lot about the way the product works and continue to try and “jazz” up my Tableau “vizes” in any way I can. Here are a couple of trick that you might find as useful as I did.