Question
How can a personal reading log become an analytical tool without losing the character of the books behind it?
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Tableau · personal data visualization
My Library Dashboard
A Tableau dashboard that turns a book-level reading log into a visual library browser and focused views for ratings, authors, genres, formats, and reading activity.
Project brief
Dataset
One row per book, with title, author, genre, format, rating, cover, page length, and reading and publication details.
Build
A seven-dashboard Tableau workbook with four interactive controls for sort order, genre, author gender, and format.
Dashboard system
A library browser built from book-level data.
Calculated shelf layout
Calculated fields for book rank, shelf number, shelf position, sort value, and display sizing turn individual records into a bookshelf-like view that can change order without rebuilding the dashboard.
Interactive exploration
Parameters and filters let a reader switch sort logic or narrow the collection by genre, author gender, and format while retaining the same visual structure.
Connected analysis views
The library browser leads into dedicated dashboards for reading insights, ratings, authors, and favorites—each answering a different question from the same dataset.
Analytical views
Four focused views from the same dataset.
Reading insights
Summarizes the 33 books in the library since July 2024 across genre, author gender, format, and reading activity.
- Psychological thrillers account for 66.67% of the collection.
- E-books account for 84.85%, while the timeline captures a clear early spike in reading activity.
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Ratings
Compares average ratings by genre with the distribution of books across four rating groups.
- Philosophical books have the highest average rating in the view.
- 60.61% of books fall in the 4–5-star range, making highly rated titles the dominant group.
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Authors
Separates the authors I return to most often from those with the strongest average ratings.
- The dashboard tracks 21 authors; Paulo Coelho is the highest-rated author and John Marrs is the most read.
- Average ratings are similar across author gender in this collection: 3.87 for female authors and 3.97 for male authors.
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Favorites
Creates a focused shortlist of the books and authors that stand out most in the collection.
- The view separates top-rated books overall from top-rated thrillers, preserving genre context.
- It turns the larger library browser into a fast way to revisit the books that received the strongest personal ratings.
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Outcome
A personal archive that supports both browsing and analysis.
The dashboard uses a single book-level dataset to support different analytical questions while keeping the library itself at the center of the experience.
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