The 3-Minute Win

Start from scratch. Build something useful. Do it quickly.

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Sasha Pasulka creates a dashboard with hospital admissions data, including information about length of stay, patient zip code, and clinical unit. She does it in 2 minutes and 48 seconds. 

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"People might think you took hours, but really we just took about 3 minutes." Josh Milligan--who maintains the Viz Painter blog when he's not consulting at Teknion--channels Bob Ross to create this beautiful, interactive dashboard that allows a user to "paint" and feel like they're sharing a canvas with the master himself.  

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Think you can predict who’ll get an Oscar nod this year? Nick Lang from Clarity Solution Group sure does — because he used Tableau’s R integration (and 11 years of Rotten Tomatoes data) to build a dashboard that predicts exactly that. He does it in 2 minutes and 48 seconds. (Want to access his data and R script? The links are in the description of the YouTube page.)

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Craving your favorite grub from a food truck in San Francisco? John Mathis from Slalom Consulting uses parameter and URL action functionality in Tableau to rapidly sort through food truck application data from the city of San Francisco and find trucks serving his favorite food. 

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Ready to be the *real* winner of your college football pool? Mike Braund's become a data QB, sending his friends daily emails with different views and results from their college football bowl pool. In this video, he shows you how he builds two of these popular views, in 2 minutes and 51 seconds.

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What color shirt should you wear ... in the future? Teknion's Josh Milligan explores the fate of the Enterprise staff over the years, in this humorous Star Trek dashboard built in 2 minutes and 52 seconds. 

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In this video, Manas Ranjan Kar uses data from India's data portal to explore the exports and imports of India. The dashboard he builds allows a user to understand the top exports and imports by country, and he builds a simple calculated field to visually display whether India's trade balance is positive or negative with any given country. He does it in 2 minutes and 37 seconds. 

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Joshua Milligan from Teknion explores loan balance data in this video, creating a dashboard that allows him to understand loan delinquency by type of loan, creditworthiness of loan recipient, and how long the loan has been delinquent. But Joshua's right on time -- coming in at 2 minutes and 50 seconds. 

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In this video, KK Molugu uses data from the City of Chicago's data portal to create a dashboard that explores the city's potholes, including which potholes have not been fixed, and the amount of time, on average, it takes the city to fix a pothole. He does it in 3 minutes flat (no pun intended). 

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In this down-to-the-last-second nail-biter, Cory Jez from Interworks leverages calculated fields and parameters to build a dashboard that allows him to explore NFL scoring trends over 35 years. He does it in 3 minutes flat. 

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Alan Eldridge creates an animated look at the trains in Melbourne, including when and where they hit peak load. He does it in 2 minutes -- giving his audience an extra minute to enjoy the playback of the animation.

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Dan Montgomery from Slalom creates a box-and-whiskers chart and links it to a map, allowing him to explore the temperatures of open-air NFL stadiums over the course of an average season. 

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Tips for Making a #3MinWin Video

Thinking of making your own video? Here are a couple tips for creating a great #3minwin:

Set your screen resolution to 1024 x 768 before recording. This will make it easiest for viewers to see what you're doing. 

If possible, add narration to your video. Explain to the viewer what you're doing and what you're building so they can follow along.

When you upload your video to YouTube, be sure to provide a meaningful title and description for your video.

When you upload your video to YouTube, pay attention to what you select as the thumbnail. Videos with the final dashboard as the thumbnail usually draw more attention. 

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Javod from Interworks builds a dashboard that lets him compare the critical and financial success of film trilogies over the years. He does it in 2 minutes and 45 seconds.  

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Jon Boeckenstedt creates an interactive dashboard that lets him explore academic degrees awarded by state and by discipline. He does it in 2 minutes and 58 seconds. 

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Recent Manhattan transplant Peter Gilks creates a dashboard that allows him to map and explore data on the city's 311 calls, so he can safely navigate his new home while avoiding rats, roosters and loud noises. He does it in 3 minutes flat. 

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There's always time for design! Mark Jackson builds a beautiful and emotionally resonant dashboard that uses the Pages filter to play out visual history of nuclear bombs dropped across the world since 1945. He does it in 2 minutes and 58 seconds.