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Felicia Styer @graphhopper.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

Hazards of the job. 😅 Hot take - corporations should provide demo access to their portals so that we can see the quality of their UX before choosing a bank, lender, credit card, etc.

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Felicia Styer @graphhopper.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

NWSL Matchup Wheels are back & better than ever! public.tableau.com/app/profile/...

A View with 14 Matchup Wheels - one for each NWSL team.

KC has 5 wins. Pride & Spirit are next with 4 wins.
Gotham, Thorns, ACFC, Wave, Reign, and Bay all have 2 wins.
Dash, Utah, Racing, and Stars have one win.
NC Courage has no wins.

Seattle Reign and Houston Dash have had the toughest lineups, while Chicago Stars and Bay FC have had the lowest ranked opponents.
Check out the tool for more details!

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Felicia Styer @graphhopper.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

Tableau Public has a new feature! Now you can see who has starred your workbooks! ⭐

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Felicia Styer @graphhopper.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

Also available at Theater 4 in Data Village and Stage 1 in the Content Pavilion!

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Felicia Styer @graphhopper.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

Sure, Tableau Next looks great, but can we get rounded corners in Tableau Classic?

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Felicia Styer @graphhopper.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

Don't like crowds but want to catch the keynote on the big screen? Head to Theater 2 in Data Village! #TC25

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Felicia Styer @graphhopper.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

Want an avatar sticker for #Data25? Send me a DM!

Sticker sheet with some avatars and plenty of open space!

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Felicia Styer @graphhopper.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

Are you heading to San Diego for #Data25? Pick up some TC Tips from next week's Data Pride TUG meeting. usergroups.tableau.com/events/detai...

Data Pride: Prepping for Tableau Conference April 4th 12 PM EST / 9 AM PT

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Felicia Styer @graphhopper.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

I'm making avatar stickers again for #Data25! If you'd like one, please send me a message here or on LinkedIn before April 10. I won't be watching my Twitter notifications.

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Felicia Styer @graphhopper.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

A short break from your regularly scheduled data content - check out these hooded mergansers! I'm about one year into birding and just starting to recognize some non-mallard ducks.

A male and female hooded merganser on a lake

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Felicia Styer @graphhopper.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

I really enjoyed listening to this data story, and couldn't resist exploring Lauren Bauer's (@laurenhlb.bsky.social) dataset myself! public.tableau.com/app/profile/...

Tableau dashboard
Title - Data in Media: The Big Government Money Pipe Freeze
Earlier this week I was listening to one of my favorite podcasts - Planey Money. Their guest, Lauren Bauer from the Hamilton Project, is a policy expert. She wanted to monitor government spending to see how DOGE has impacted spending - which payments were frozen, and which are still flowing. The episode is a great short story featuring data engineering, APIs, and high stakes data analysis!

The visual continues to a small multiple chart with trends for each spending category, showing the 7 Day Moving Avg of Treasury Outlays for Nov 2024 - Feb 2025

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Felicia Styer @graphhopper.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

Come see my talk 'Data Models 101 - Joins, Relationships, and Blends' at #TC25! This talk will walk through setting up each data model, compare the behavior of the models, and talk through the factors to consider when choosing the right data model for your use case. See you in San Diego!

I'm speaking at Tableau Conference
April 15 - 17 2025
San Diego

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Felicia Styer @graphhopper.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Kevin Wee's entry Stage to Screen is one of my favorites from this year. I feel like both of these charts are simple yet completely new, and I'm totally using this top left legend placement in a future project. public.tableau.com/app/profile/...

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Felicia Styer @graphhopper.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

I think this NY Powerball entry by Audrey Goodwin is delightful. I love the interactivity, and how plainly it spells out the odds of winning. My favorite detail is how borders and layout settings are used to format the ticket selector. public.tableau.com/app/profile/...

Snapshot of the workbook open in the editor. The layout settings show a thick border with 10 pixels of inner padding around a table with borders in the same style.

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Felicia Styer @graphhopper.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

I've seen multiple entries use the Map Layers hack in new and exciting ways. (Method: www.phdata.io/blog/beyond-...) Annabelle Rincon's entry is a great example of this - her first dashboard uses a single worksheet with over 20 map layers! public.tableau.com/app/profile/...

Screenshot of the first dashboard of Annabelle's workbook. It shows about 20 map layers of varying types, including lines, circles, text, shape, and map fill.

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Felicia Styer @graphhopper.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

It's me! This really is delightful!

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Felicia Styer @graphhopper.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

My favorite build was for Birding. I attempted to recreated the experience of birding in a chart. As you interact with the dots, you'll see a lot of recurring characters. The less frequent observations stand out against the common birds in my area.

text: I started birdwatching in 2024, and have observed 92 species so far! Most of these outings were in the KC metro area. I managed to get out and see some birds on work trips to Florida and California as well.

If you're interested in birding and data, I took Binoculars to Binomials this spring and enjoyed it!
https://www.jerthorp.me/learning

Color Legend: Birds Spotted in 2014 Red 1 Yellow 2-3 Green 4-6 Blue 7-10 Gray Over 10

Chart: A packed bubble chart where 70% of the bubbles are gray

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Felicia Styer @graphhopper.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

The dashboard creates a classic ‘glow’ effect using four layers. A base image with the room and furniture, a glow worksheet with the density mark type, a second image with the items, and a targeting worksheet with invisible marks to trigger interactions.

An image of an office, including a long desk and bookshelf, in a pixel style.

The same image of an office, with glowing yellow dots applied in clusters.

The same image of an office with glowing sections, now images of objects have been added, sandwiching the glowing clusters between the background and foreground images.

The same image of the office with the items and glowing halos, now with red circles on top of the items to indicate where the target marks would appear.

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Felicia Styer @graphhopper.bsky.social · 15/04/2024

#30DayChartChallenge | #Day14 | Heatmap Experimenting with mouseX and mouseY to make a silly little heatmap! ✨Move waffle from setup() to draw() ✨Add background reset ✨Get mouse coordinates 👻Control transparency based on mouse position. glitch.com/edit/#!/14-o...

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Felicia Styer @graphhopper.bsky.social · 14/04/2024

#30DayChallenge | #Day13 | Family This one is a bit abstract! The first circle represents you, then click to include your parents. Each click brings the view back a generation. ✨Outer pie ✨Inner Pie ✨Finally breaking out of my setup() comfort zone! glitch.com/edit/#!/13-o...

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Felicia Styer @graphhopper.bsky.social · 08/04/2024

#30DayChartChallenge | #Day10 | Physical I used data from my Google Maps Timeline to plot my time spent away from home for the past week. Circle size = time spent. ✨New Data ✨Lines! 🔴New color ⌛️Rotating labels glitch.com/edit/#!/10-o...

Image is a screenshot of the glitch page, showing the script.js file alongside the preview window.

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Felicia Styer @graphhopper.bsky.social · 08/04/2024

#30DayChartChallenge | #Day9 | Major/Minor I plotted Major and AAA (Minor) #MLB team names by threat vs skill levels! Thanks to @brrosenau.bsky.social for inspiration 🫶 ⌛️Made dataset ✨Mapped values to plot area 🍊New color! ✨Tweaked values to minimize overlap ✨Added axes glitch.com/edit/#!/09-o...

Image is a screenshot of the glitch page, showing the script.js file alongside the preview window.

Highlights include:
Minor League team names are less threatening and less skilled.
The least threatening, least skilled name is the Jacksonville Jumbo Shrimp.
The most threatening least skilled team name is the Tigers.
The most threatening, most skilled team name is the Angels.

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Felicia Styer @graphhopper.bsky.social · 08/04/2024

#30DayChartChallenge | #Day8 | Circular I've wanted to experiment with tick marks on a pie chart for a minute. It's a bit off theme, but I couldn't pass up this opportunity! ✨tick# parameter ✨tick marks ✨Trig! ✨labels glitch.com/edit/#!/08-o...

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Felicia Styer @graphhopper.bsky.social · 08/04/2024

#30DayChartChallenge | #Day7 | Hazards Outdoor cats are a major hazard to birds. ✨New data! ✨Row iteration ✨Transparency ✨Jitter ✨Tick marks glitch.com/edit/#!/same...

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Felicia Styer @graphhopper.bsky.social · 07/04/2024

#30DayChartChallenge | #Day6 | OECD Way over time today, luckily it's the weekend! glitch.com/edit/#!/06-o...

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Felicia Styer @graphhopper.bsky.social · 06/04/2024

#30DayChartChallenge | #Day5 | Diverging This is a modification of an exercise from the Binoculars to Binomials JS course taught by @jerthorp.bsky.social . ✨Styled to match project ✨Moved encoding to bar width ✨Added second bird ✨Added left bars glitch.com/edit/#!/05-o...

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Felicia Styer @graphhopper.bsky.social · 04/04/2024

#30DayChartChallenge | #Day4 | Waffle This one went a bit over my 30 minute limit! ✨made 100 squares ✨distributed columns and rows ✨broke the loop into pre vs post threshold glitch.com/edit/#!/04-o...

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Felicia Styer @graphhopper.bsky.social · 03/04/2024

#30DayChartChallenge | #Day3 | Makeover I did a makeover of my day 2 code, allowing a list of 3+ inputs instead of just 2. ✨Replaced the inputs with a list ✨Looped through list ✨Alternated colors glitch.com/edit/#!/03-o...

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Felicia Styer @graphhopper.bsky.social · 03/04/2024

#30DayChartChallenge | #Day2 | Neo I started with yesterdays code replacing the arc with a second circle. ✨Setup the area ratio ✨Offset the center of the smaller circle ✨Handled B > A inputs ✨Added Labels glitch.com/edit/#!/02-o...

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Felicia Styer @graphhopper.bsky.social · 01/04/2024

#30DayChartChallenge | #Day1 | Part-to-whole Remember, I'm limiting myself to half an hour of work in a new tool! The bar is low 😅 ✨Made a pie chart ✨Based on a dynamic variable ✨With custom colors ✨Responsive to screen size glitch.com/edit/#!/01-o...

Screenshot of the glitch page linked above, including the script.js code and the code preview. The code preview shows a pie chart of 10%.

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Felicia Styer @graphhopper.bsky.social · 01/04/2024

Happy April Fool's Day! (It's me, I am the fool.) I'm doing the #30DayChartChallenge! Each day of April I'll spend 30 minutes in js.p5 attempting to build a viz based on the daily theme. You can find all the info about the challenge here: github.com/30DayChartCh...

Topic list for the 30 days chart challenge. List is also available through the github link.

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Felicia Styer @graphhopper.bsky.social · 14/03/2024

In Tableau I used these eight columns in the mark label, alternating the format. Because we can't control the text highlight, I used a very light font color for the blackouts, making it blend into the white background.

In tableau the mark labels were edited like this: <Description 1A> <Description 1B> <Description 2A> <Description 2B> <Description 3A> <Description 3B> <Description 4A> <Description 4B> with the 'A' fields in a very light, low contrast color.

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Felicia Styer @graphhopper.bsky.social · 14/03/2024

To do this, I broke each tagline into eight columns of data. Each 'A' column held blacked out text, while the 'B' columns held visible text.

Spreadsheet with 15 columns. Column headers in order: Film LGBTQIA+ War """Domestic""" Violence Against Women SV Description Full Description 1A Description 1B Description 2A Description 2B Description 3A Description 3B Description 4A Description 4B

The film column includes film titles.
The LGBTQIA+ through SV columns are mostly empty. films with those themes are marked with x.
The rest of the columns have text from the IMDB taglines

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Felicia Styer @graphhopper.bsky.social · 14/03/2024

A peek behind the scenes of my Oscars + Gender viz. public.tableau.com/app/profile/... The biggest challenge I faced was finding a way to get Alanna's incredible text analysis into Tableau. This is a screenshot of what she originally created.

Screenshot of a document.
Title Outstanding Female Acting + Director + Best Picture

Films have a header in this format Title (Year)
and then the tagline is below it. Most of the tagline has been blacked out, leaving just the text about characters visible.

These are the first three sections:

Passage to India (1984)
[redacted] an Indian doctor, an Englishwoman [redacted] a city magistrate [redacted] an English educator.

Fatal Attraction (1987)
A married man's one-night stand [redacted] him and his family.

Working Girl (1988)
[redacted] a secretary [redacted] her boss [redacted]

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Felicia Styer @graphhopper.bsky.social · 11/03/2024

In early February my sister and I were talking about gender and the #Oscars. Together we turned that conversation turned into this Tableau Public visualization.

Data visualization titled Project Scope.

The main takeaway is that the analysis focuses on 81 films (3%) that received 2+ Actress or Actor nominations and zero for the other gender.

The visualization includes three sections: a marginal histogram of Actor vs Actress Nominations, a timeline of the highlighted films, and a short block of text giving context.

Data visualization titled Project Analysis

The main takeaway here is that films with outstanding male acting are twice as likely to be nominated for best picture or director.

The visualization has three sections: a stacked bar comparing nomination outcomes for films with outstanding female acting vs films with outstanding male acting, a list of film details, and text with insights.

Data visualization titled Film Taglines

This section has short descriptions of the films edited to highlight character portrayals. The main takeaway is that male characters are featured more prominently.

Bar chart of nominees by the number of overall nominations and the number of nominations that fell inside the bounds of the project.

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Felicia Styer @graphhopper.bsky.social · 06/03/2024

I'm taking a class about birding and javascript! Our first project was creating a postcard. While the p5.js version took me 10x longer, and looks worse, I'm still super happy with how it turned out! public.tableau.com/app/profile/... b2b-postcard.glitch.me

This is the p5 version of the postcard. There are open circles with varying colors and sizes, but no legends or labels. These circles are unfilled.

The Tableau version of the postcard. This version includes size and color legends, and mark labels.

Blue circles = already known species. These tend to be larger circles and include Canada Goose, American Crow, American Robin, Red Winged Blackbird, Bluejay, and Mourning Dove.

Green Circles = already familiar. These include House Finch, European Starling, Common Grackle.

Yellow = new level of detail. These circles are smaller and include Red tailed hawk, barred owl, and hairy woodpecker.

Red = Completely new. This includes Pileated Woodpecker, and Dark eyed junco.

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Felicia Styer @graphhopper.bsky.social · 06/03/2024

I've officially booked everything for #TC24! I put together this quick Google My Map of the area to help me pick a hotel. The conference block hotels are in dark blue, and a few cute & slightly more affordable independent hotels are in light blue.

Map of downtown San Diego including the TC24 hotel block locations and 3 additional hotels the Sofia, Gaslamp Plaza, and Palihotel San Diego.

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Felicia Styer @graphhopper.bsky.social · 06/03/2024

Finally, the last image shows the town of Clinton MO - home to the westernmost trailhead of the Katy Trail! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katy_Tr... 5/5

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Felicia Styer @graphhopper.bsky.social · 06/03/2024

This delta (is that even the right term?) was the most interesting image to me! I bet this place has some great bird watching. 4/6

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Felicia Styer @graphhopper.bsky.social · 06/03/2024

This second image was the key to spotting it! The gooseneck road leading into the town of Deepwater, paired with the long bridge where hwy 13 crosses the western edge of the reservoir were very distinctive. 4/6

arial photo of deepwater and the hwy 13 bridge

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Felicia Styer @graphhopper.bsky.social · 06/03/2024

The images I captured shows the Truman Reservoir, a massive dammed section of the Osage River. It stretches into 4 counties! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truman_... 3/6

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Felicia Styer @graphhopper.bsky.social · 06/03/2024

My first thought was the Mississippi, but we were too far west. Next I thought about the Lake of the Ozarks, and started looking at the google satellite view for the western edge of that area. That region didn't have the straight N-S highway, but following the water West led me to Clinton MO! 2/6

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Felicia Styer @graphhopper.bsky.social · 06/03/2024

Flying back from Orlando to KC I noticed this incredible winding river? lake? not far from our destination. There were multiple bridges crossing the water. It ended in an interesting delta on the western edge, immediately followed by a town. 1/6

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Felicia Styer @graphhopper.bsky.social · 05/03/2024

📊 Tiny Tableau Tip Filter actions can allow users to navigate to another dashboard AND filter it with just one click. Take it to the next level by displaying the filter action as a filter on your target dashboard. public.tableau.com/app/profile/...

Dashboard with a map

Title: Demo: Navigation Driven by Filter Actions
Instructions: Clicking on a mark will filter the second dashboard and navigate to it.
Chart: US map with 4 regions: Central, East, South, and West.

Dashboard showing a bar chart.

Title: Demo: Navigation Driven by Filter Actions
Subtitle: Sales by City Region: Central

The bar chart only displays cities from the central region.

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Felicia Styer @graphhopper.bsky.social · 05/03/2024

If you have an Aranet and want to see the raw data, here's how I did it. On the trend view, click on the upload icon in the top right corner. This will create a csv file with timestamp, CO2, Temp, humidity, and atmospheric pressure in the format included on the right.

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Felicia Styer @graphhopper.bsky.social · 01/03/2024

9:30 Two hours of project management meetings. We have room for another March project - DM me if you need Tableau consulting! 11:30 Laundry. I feed myself leftovers and convince the dog to eat her breakfast by moving it outside. IDK why that worked, but I'm glad she ate!

My dog, a medium sized, black, chow-lab mix looks up from an empty food bowl.

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Felicia Styer @graphhopper.bsky.social · 26/02/2024

I was pretty sure they would be inside of this triangle. The terrain looked like Florida, we were about 30 minutes outside of Orlando, and the area wasn't coastal. I checked the flight path, and it went through the center of the state, about 20 miles east of Gainesville. 2/3

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Felicia Styer @graphhopper.bsky.social · 26/02/2024

In the last 30 minutes of my flight from KC to Orlando I noticed a perfectly round lake. Curious, I snapped a picture of it, and a small triangular airfield immediately south of it, hoping to track it down later. 1/3

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Felicia Styer @graphhopper.bsky.social · 24/02/2024

No major surprises here. We know boarding and deplaning are the times with the highest risk - ventilation improves once in flight. The in flight level was higher than I expected. I often unmask about 30 minutes into a flight, but after seeing these readings I stayed masked.

Plot of Carbon Dioxide over time. Spikes above 1500 PPM are labeled Security, Boarding, Flight, and Disembarking. Security and Flight are both around 2000, while Boarding and Disembarking are both above 2500.

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