The recent article FIFA World Cup Statistics with Tableau included a dashboard visualizing statistics of the FIFA World Cups from 1930 to 2006 by team, provided on Tableau Public.
Today’s post is a follow-up to that article: FIFA World Cup scorers statistics from 1930 to 2006 on two different dashboards.
Daniel Ferry’s blog Excel Hero is a source of permanent inspiration for me. In a recent article called Animate cumulative data with Tableau, I described how to use a custom SQL data connection to show cumulative data using Tableau’s page shelf. This post was inspired by one of Daniel’s great articles: Excel Location Mapping.
In true tradition of stealing Daniel’s ideas, today’s short post contains another replica of one of his Excel workbooks using Tableau Software: Daniel’s implementation of the "1,000 Blocks" sculpture by Curtis Steiner (unfortunately without the soundtrack, of course…).
Here is an animation of a selection of 10 out of 78 slides:
Tableau Public does not support the slide show of pages using the playback controls. Thus, I decided not to publish on Tableau Public. Instead, here is the Tableau packaged workbook for free download:
Download 1,000 Blocks Celtic Muse (Tableau Packaged Workbook, 2640.7K)
To open this workbook you need Tableau 5.2 (14-day free trial) or the free Tableau Reader.
Last, but not least:
Daniel, many thanks again for sharing your fabulous work, for the time you took to review my Tableau workbook and for your permission to use your idea here. Special thanks go also to Daniel’s wife and daughter who helped him with the encoding of 78,000 (!) tiles. Thank you very much.
I have to admit, I am a little late: The FIFA World Cup 2010 in South Africa already started yesterday. And of course there have already been a couple of interesting posts on visualizing the World Cup statistics elsewhere:
Chandoo had a couple of nice posts using Microsoft Excel: FIFA World Cup Excel Spreadsheets, Football Betting Sheet Template and Official FIFA World-cup Soccer Balls since 1930 in an Excel Chart.
Ross Perez provided a very interesting visualization of the History of the World Cup on Tableau’s own blog, focused on winning and tie percentages.
Better late than never. Today’s post includes my 2 cents: a visualization of the FIFA World Cup Statistics since 1930, using Tableau Software and focused on the performance and match statistics per team.
Combining tables and charts is a very powerful technique for creating Microsoft Excel dashboards. It allows you to integrate texts, values and visualizations into one table. This ensures to have the maximum of information at a glance, including a direct comparability row by row.
I already used this technique in several posts before, like the Sparklines for XL showcase or the Software Project Dashboard examples. Today’s article provides another showcase for a dashboard combining tables and charts.
Football rules the world, especially these days. We are all impatiently waiting for the FIFA World Cup in South Africa, aren’t we? My friend Chandoo recently had a very nice post on visualizing the different footballs used in the World Championships since 1930. That’s remarkable, because Chandoo lives in India and I suppose he is more interested in cricket than football. But as I said, football rules the world these days.
That’s why it somehow suggests itself to use a football-related visualization for today’s post. But I will not go for the FIFA World Cups. Not yet. Today’s article shows how to visualize national football league statistics using a dashboard that combines tables and charts. As always including the Microsoft Excel workbook for free download.
Inspired by Nathan's Walmart growth movie, Daniel Ferry recently had a very interesting post at his outstanding blog Excel Hero. Daniel presented a beautiful Excel implementation of animating the growth of Walmart, plotting dynamic named ranges on an XY scatter chart against a background image map of the US.
There is nothing to add to Daniel’s great post and implementation with regards to the use of Microsoft Excel. But how about Tableau? Can you create animations like this with Tableau Software?
At first sight this should be a piece of cake: If you think of animating data with Tableau, of course the page shelf is the first thing that comes to your mind, isn’t it? Dragging a field (the year of the opening date of the stores in our example) to the page shelf allows you to either manually navigate through all the years or to use the playback controls for a slide show.
However, the page shelf creates a view on the currently selected page. Thus, dragging the opening date on the page shelf would show an animation only displaying the location of the new Walmart stores in the current year. At the end of the animation, for instance, the visualization would include solely all stores opened in 2006 instead of all stores opened since 1962.
Therefore the page shelf and Tableau’s built-in mapping functionality are only half the battle won. We need a little tweak to visualize and animate the cumulative data, i.e. all Walmart stores from the very beginning.
Today’s post presents a way of emulating Daniel’s Excel implementation with Tableau. As always including the Tableau packaged workbook for free download.