The Data Surfers

Hey guys! This is Chris, in this post I am going to show you how I created my GOT Network Diagram. It took a lot of thought (and trial and error) at the beginning, but once I understood the process and the concepts it was very easy to achieve! Let me walk you through the [...]

Hey guys! After a good while we finally came around to creating this post! We had a lot of things happen since we wanted to start this and things are finally calming down for us, so here you go! We used this design to complete one of the Makeover Mondays using data about the Dietary [...]

For one of the recent Makeover Monday’s I created a dashboard that combined custom x, y coordinates with percent difference over time on Wine Production and Consumption since 2012 on 23 countries. This dashboard has two parts. The first part will show a grape vine, the "grapes" represent the countries ranked from most production to [...]

For this post, we decided to concentrate on the Sankey Bump Chart. This was one of Chris’ first experiments on trying his luck at Tableau solo. It took him a little while to figure the calculations but with all the help of the Tableau community this was possible. After Chris finished this chart we thought [...]

So, back on Sep 1, 2017 I was at work taking a short break and wanted to know if anyone had created art within Tableau. After a quick search on Twitter, I stumbled across Andy Cotgreave's post about the Kraken...!? Absolutely stunned; I wanted to know more about how to create this right away! I remembered using a [...]

After much anticipation and wait. We are very proud to introduce you to our Blog – The Data Surfers. We are Chris and Fiorella Conn. We are married and share a beautiful ball of fur named Pirate Lady. We love surfing and being outdoors, we think it’s very fair to say that if you can’t [...]