My Data-Driven Blog

Here’s a quick dashboard I put together to help keep me accountable to my marathon training schedule: http://johnsug.shinyapps.io/marathon_training I’m still tweaking the colors of the heatmap, but overall I’m pretty happy with how it turned out! Looking forward to my first marathon coming up in less than four months!... [Read More]

One of my new favorite blogs to follow is http://www.vizwiz.com, written by Andy Kriebel. I was going to call Andy a Tableau ninja, but realized he has a legit “tableau title” – Zen Master – which is pretty cool. (I guess calling yourself a “rockstar” or a “ninja”... [Read More]

After a few iterations with my Garmin dashboard, I wanted to try something new and figured out how to scape video view counts from YouTube. I then selected one channel I’ve subscribed to – Breaking Trail (an animal adventure channel I watch with my kids) – tagged the videos... [Read More]

I’ve taken a break from blogging lately as I’ve been working on a data viz dashboard using data from my Garmin GPS watch. The portfolio is meant to be part of my portfolio, to show someone visually what I can do. If interested, you can view the dashboard here: <a... [Read More]

Us runners are a particular breed. We’ll drive hours, run for 2 or more hours, and drive right back (if our legs still work). Using data from the Rock the Parkway half marathon this spring, I was curious if there was a correlation between how far one drove/flew to complete... [Read More]