STAR Summary
- Situation
- I wanted to see patterns in UFO sighting reports across the U.S.
- Task
- Owned the end-to-end build, from implementation through the final deliverable.
- Action
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- Cleaned and standardized a public UFO sightings dataset.
- Built a Tableau dashboard with maps and time-based charts.
- Result
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- In this dataset, reports are most common in the evening/night hours (and shift seasonally with daylight).
- California has the most reports in the dataset, while many central states have fewer.
- Stack
- Tableau
- Status
- Live interactive demo
Demo
Use the interactive Tableau dashboard to explore sightings by place, time, and shape.
- Hover charts/maps for tooltips and quick readouts.
- Click marks (states/cities/shapes) to filter and cross-highlight views.
- Use Tableau controls to refine the slice you’re looking at.
- Scroll to compare time-of-day and seasonality patterns across views.
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Notes
The dashboard uses reported UFO sightings without population normalization, so patterns should be read as report volume, not incidence rates.
