You'd think for someone who talks a lot January's theme, What I Said, would be NBD. Wrongo. My problem is that I had too many options. Do I do something about the podcast? Hashtags on instagram? Tweets? Other conversation? I was also a smidge lazy and didn't feel like manually tracking anything. Sooo, I turned to a trusty IFTTT recipe I created last April on my tweets. I threw the data into Tableau to explore and out popped a story...what do I tweet about more? Dataviz, fitness, or random stuff!
Please note, I did the viz purely for exploratory purposes and did not spend a lot of time tweaking it because it really wasn't the end result.
Please note, I did the viz purely for exploratory purposes and did not spend a lot of time tweaking it because it really wasn't the end result.
Click the pic to go to Tableau Public to interact with the viz.
Before I move on to the postcard, I wanted to mention a couple of points about the viz and what I learned.
- I used Andy Kriebel's post from 2012 to create the calendar.
- I brought in some custom shapes for the twitter birdies. I love how it looks like birds on a wire.
- Plain ole but effective bar chart to help me see what I tweeted about (I honestly thought I was tweeting about fitness stuff more than I did).
- 10 am was a popular tweeting time for me
- One Tuesday was definitely an outlier, but I tweet more Tuesdays and Fridays in general.
So here's the final result. I wanted to use the calendar as the background to represent the sky, the birds on a wire feeling, and I used a flock of birds to represent the amount and type of tweets. I also learned that drawing birds is challenging!! I can't wait to see how February turns out!
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