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Data Chain-January

2/11/2016

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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.
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 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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