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Last year I set a goal to read 50 books in a year. I got the idea in January after I had had some fun building a Tableau dashboard to the visualize the books I read in 2015.
So, I did the same thing this year. Check out my dashboard below- I focused on making this one very simple and optimized for mobile viewing. Enjoy!
Read MoreI haven't played with Tableau in forever, so I thought it would be fun to dust off my skillz and play with some data from Goodreads. I crushed a lot of books last year, thanks to an Audible subscription and being constantly on the road with earbuds in my ears. I am new to Tableau public, and am not even sure this embed of my dashboard will work, but I'm going to give it a try. The only way to find out if it works is to publish...so here goes...
UPDATE: It worked! Small caveat, of course it is not responsive so don't even bother trying to look at this unless you are using a laptop or desktop computer. Maybe I'll play around with a mobile friendly version in the future, or maybe I won't :)
Read MoreI recently finished reading (i.e. listening to) "Big Magic" by Elizabeth Gilbert. She has a perspective on creativity that speaks differently than many of the other more "practical" books that I have read on the topic. I thought about writing a review, and then I realized there are probably plenty of those out there already. Also, what do I know about writing a book review?
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