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  • Bruce Springsteen Discography in Excel

    A Microsoft Excel Replica of the Tableau Infographic on Bruce Springsteen’s Discography

    Bruce Springsteen at the Austin Music Awards - Photographer: Charlie Llewellin (flickr.com)The recent post presented a Tableau Infographic on the Discography of Bruce Springsteen’s Studio Albums.

    Tableau apparently liked my Infographic and selected it as the Viz of the Day for June 25, 2013 and even incorporated it in the Tableau Public Gallery. I am feeling honored. Thanks, folks!

    I originally planned to directly continue with a follow-up post about how to create and when to use Word Clouds in Tableau.

    On second thought I decided to postpone this follow-up article. I haven’t published anything for more than 6 months and I had a strong feeling I should quickly do something for those of you primarily interested in Microsoft Excel.

    So, if you are waiting for the article on Word Clouds in Tableau, please bear with me. The post will come soon.

    Those of you interested in Excel: this is for you. What would have been more obvious than publishing a replica of the Bruce Springsteen Discography in Microsoft Excel? It goes without saying that the Excel workbook mimics the most interesting interactive features of the Tableau original. As always the article provides the Excel workbook for free download.

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  • Bruce Springsteen Discography – An Infographic

    A Tableau Infographic – The Discography of Bruce Springsteen’s Studio Albums

    Bruce Springsteen live in Munich 2009 - Photographer: Lord_Henry (flickr.com)After six months without any new blog posts (please accept my apologies) I felt totally out of practice. Hence, I thought starting with a fun post and an infographic would make my comeback to blogging easier than an article on a more serious data analysis or data visualization topic.

    4 weeks ago I received an email from a guy (pen name: Chorizo Garbanzo) who runs together with 2 friends a music blog and podcast called Trust The Wizards.

    Chorizo stumbled across a post I have written back in November 2010: Wordle Tag Clouds in Microsoft Excel, where I used the lyrics of Bruce Springsteen songs to demonstrate how to embed Wordle in a Microsoft Excel workbook. Chorizo took the lyrics out of this workbook and created a blog post showing screenshots of Wordle Clouds for a selection of Springsteen albums: Trust The Wizards – Bruce Springsteen Lyric Art.

    Chorizo’s post and the fact that Tableau Software included Word Clouds in version 8 gave me the idea for today’s article: I completed the lyrics in my Excel workbook, added some additional information on the albums and created an interactive infographic on Bruce Springsteen’s Discography (studio albums only) in Tableau 8.

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