Sunday, June 13, 2010

Post winning Tableau contest

Some of the things I received and was grateful for from winning this contest:
- My name appeared in many many websites (over 10000 hits, the day after the press release)
- The viz appeared in Times Square New York
- Celebration from my colleague at DePaul (wine & cheese)
- Acknowledgement from the Dean and faculties of School of CDM
- Announcements in DePaul Facebook, DePaul Magazine, EM&M Newsletter
- Free trip to Web 2.0 (San Francisco) for 2 px
- Radio interview with Charlie Hagger (KOMO Radio Seattle)
- Spoke at the kick-off meeting at the San Francisco User Group meeting (May '10)
- Spoke at the kick-off meeting at the Chicago User Group meeting (June '10)
- Interviewed by Dan Murray (Interworks)
- Speaking arrangement with the Federal Home Loan Bank (mid July)
- Speaking arrangement with the Atlanta Tableau User Group (Aug) 


I'm also making new contacts, especially with those who are interested in data visualization: with folks in Tableau, Tableau experts, consultants, bloggers, from inside and outside the States. Priceless.



So why my viz won the contest? An internal source told me it was the extra analysis (the + and - factors, the two charts at the bottom) and the design (which comprise of a lot of things).
The dataset contain 90+ variables. It was a challenge to come up with a number of variables that are highly correlated with obesity rate. I'm glad the extra step paid off.  


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