2024/Week 9 - Design to a Template
Description
For Week 9 of 2024, we would like you to design to a template.
Summary
The template we’re using this week is designed by Bridget Cogley, co-author of Functional Aesthetics for Data Visualization. From Bridget:
“Like bento boxes, frames affect how we use space and arrange our charts. This frame comes from an existing analysis. Note how its space may alter your choices around charts. They can often help kickstart an analysis by limiting choices or encouraging certain types of narrative choices. How did using this frame affect your design process?”
You can find the template we want you to design to on Elisa Davis’s Tableau Public page. Use this link: https://public.tableau.com/app/profile/elisa.davis/viz/B2VBLIVEDesigntoaTemplateYouDraftIt/OriginalYouDraftIt
Since this is the first time in a long time that Tableau Conference has been held in San Diego, our data is about where to go for dinner! Specifically, we’re looking at restaurants in the San Diego Gaslamp quarter, which are all walking distance from the conference. Our data set has the following fields:
- Rating: Numeric rating, scale of 1-5
- Name: Name of the Restaurant
- Street: Street Address
- City: City
- State: Two letter abbreviation of state
- Zip Code: Five digit numeric postal code
- Full Address: Concatenated field of Street, City, State
- Latitude: latitude coordinates for restaurant
- Longitude: longitude coordinates for restaurant
- Telephone: Phone number to contact restaurant
- Img_lnk: URL to sample image of restaurant or dish served
- Description: Text field. Description of restaurant.
- Tags_Concatenated: A field with all of the "tags" describing the restaurant
- Price Range: A symbol field indicating price range. Sample value "$$$." Also included in the Tags column.
- Editor's Pick: A Yes/No field indicating if the restaurant is an Editor's Pick. Also included in the Tags column.
For those newer to Tableau, try to consider using colour effectively and purposefully in your chart. Play with formatting, detail, and colours to see how it affects your chart. Make sure your chart has an appropriate description, title, or labels. Keep things simple and try not to over-complicate the chart. For those more experienced users, get creative. However, don't compromise quality if trying something new.
Take your time over the next week to create your chart. Or if you’re at the LIVE! Session, try to finish in 30 minutes! Share your visualisation on Tableau Public, Twitter, and/or LinkedIn. Use the hashtag #B2VB and tag us (@ReadySetData, @ItsElisaDavis, and @datavizfairy on Twitter).
Don’t forget to track your progress and view other submissions by filling out the submission form on the Back 2 Viz Basics website.
Good luck!
Functional Aesthetics for Data Visualization (https://www.functionalaestheticsbook.com/) explores the interplay between what we see (perception), what information is encoded (semantics), and what we mean (intent). Combined, this triad creates a powerful subsystem we call “functional aesthetics” as a way of using beauty and form to guide and support function. This visually engaging book blends ideas from academia and practice for creating data-created interfaces, such as interactive dashboards and visualizations.