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UFO Sightings Dashboard
Explore where and when historical UFO reports were recorded.
STAR Summary
- Situation
- I wanted to explore geographic and time patterns in a historical archive of UFO reports while keeping the limits of report counts clear.
- Task
- Create a Tableau dashboard for exploring report volume by location, month, recorded hour, and reported shape.
- Action
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- Prepared a historical UFO report dataset with recorded sighting dates from 1906 through May 2014.
- Built geographic, time-based, and reported-shape comparisons in Tableau.
- Defined the default view as the contiguous U.S. in 2013 and documented coverage and interpretation limits.
- Result
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- The default 2013 view contains 6,334 report records across 48 states, with California contributing 653 (10.3%).
- July has the most reports in that view: 810, or 12.8% of the total.
- 71.9% of reports in that view have recorded times from 18:00 through 23:59.
