Week 11- Tableau

In this week’s assignment, we were instructed to explore Tableau Public. In past business analytics courses, I have had the opportunity to explore Tableau. This infographic development website is my personal favorite, mainly because of its easy-to-use nature and the unique infographics posted by users in the Tableau gallery.

This time around, I did some more exploring into the gallery that Tableau provides. In the spirit of March Madness, a unique infographic caught my eye. A user posted an infographic posting the top 50 salaries of head coaches in NCAA D1 Men’s Basketball. As seen below, the user provided horizontal bar graphs in order from highest to lowest. I also thought it was unique how the user highlighted the salaries coaches whose teams made the tournament this year. This infographic goes to show how easy it is to input data into Tableau and present it in a way that catches the attention of the audience.

Week 9- Updated infographic & storytelling

For this week's post, the chapter discussed has to do with storytelling. In creating infographics, it's important to paint a picture for the viewer. In doing this, you're essentially telling the audience a story in terms of the message you're trying to convey.

This week I also put together a rough draft of what I plan to do for my final project.
The infographic I decided to update and put together an idea for the 2018-2019 Benedictine Baseball team. In my final project I would go more in depth in terms of team statistics, especially after more games are played this season. The ultimate goal is to use something like this as a recruiting pamphlet on visits for potential recruits.

Week 8- Thinking like a designer

In the last couple weeks, our main focus has been to think in terms of a designer. Ultimately, this means that when we make our infographics we have to think about the audience and how we plan to grab their attention. Knaflic highlighted three main points in making an infographic: affordances, accessibility, and aesthetics.

This week, I also determined who my client would be. After doing some research and narrowing down my options, I've decided that doing a recruiting infographic for the Benedictine Baseball team would be a good idea. Not only is this right down my alley, but it also would prove beneficial for our team in the upcoming seasons as I hope to help our team recruit prospects.

For my specific infographic, I plan on compiling our team statistics over the last few seasons and coming up with averages, while posting them to an eye-grabbing infographic. This would allow our potential recruits to see how well our team has done in the past few seasons. My goal in this project is ultimately to help our team continue to succeed and recruit high-level talent from around the country. Here is an example of something similar to my idea.