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Dashboard Week Day 2 – Star Wars Characters

This post was originally published on The Data School blog between 2018 and July 2025, before our program was renamed to MIP’s Analytics Career Accelerator. References throughout this article to “The Data School” or “DS” all refer to what is now MIP’s Analytics Career Accelerator. The program, its people, and its commitment to launching outstanding analytics careers remain the same – just under a new name.

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Today is our second day and we received a dataset related to Star Wars. Our Challenge is designing a dashboard and telling a story about characters or film etc. I have to admit, I’m not familiar with Star Wars and I know very little about the characters in Star Wars.

Data Preparation

One of our challenges is to get data through an API. As it has six different categories to download, we have collected data as a group and shared the collected data within the group. API data can be downloaded from Star Wars API. Data wasn’t in a format that can be analyzed easily

Workflow for data preparation as below,

 

Once Preparation is ready, I brought the data into Tableau and used the relationship to connect data.

Dashboard

After spending some time finding data, I started working on my Dashboard. My main goal is to present the details of the characters with a selection so that anyone interested can view the information very quickly.

You can find my Dashboard in Tableau Public- Star Wars Characters  Hope you enjoy my Viz.

 

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