As part of my computer ratings, I've created performance charts for awhile now and they are very useful in being able to see how a team has performed and any trends there may be. You can see examples from my 2010 Superbowl Preview or BCS Championship Preview.
I've created these using Google Charts using a series of scripts to extract the data from my ratings system and format it into the appropriate URLs, but after learning about Tableau Public I've been wanting to give it a shot to see if it was easier or offered other benefits and with summer arriving finally had a chance to.
I created the charts for a few teams from last years college football season and the process was very straight-forward. All I had to do was to create a CSV file of my data, import it into Tableau Public Desktop, then with a little drag and drop and configuration, create the charts. It is then simple to publish to the web. Here it is (click the image to get a full screen version):
This was definitely a lot easier than what I've been doing before. As the 2010 football seasons start, I'll be trying it out more and seeing what else I can do with it and hopefully automate the generation of the charts as much as I have with Google. Give it a try yourself!
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