At the beginning of the year I launched #IronQuest, a community-led data visualization project which follows a similar format to the Tableau Iron Viz feeder competitions.
You can read more about #IronQuest here.
Sea Creatures
For #IronQuest month four (May to June 2019) the chosen theme was sea creatures. A total of 19 people entered the challenge this month and yet again we saw a diverse pool of entries from enthusiasts across the world, 46% of which were female and 50% of which had never entered an Iron Viz competition before. It’s great to see new people continuously getting involved with #IronQuest and #IronViz and I hope this trend continues. As usual, the participants were creative with the theme and we saw many different sea creatures featured. Popular creatures were sea turtles, dolphins, whales and coral. However, there were also vizzes featuring fishing, plastic pollution, qawax and even mythical creatures! There was also a strong call-to-action on many of the vizzes which was great to see.
This month I teamed up with Mark Bradbourne to provide feedback to those who requested it. We spent nearly two hours reviewing the vizzes in depth and had great fun discussing our thoughts on the submissions. You can listen to our feedback conversation here.
THANK YOU to everyone who submitted entries for taking the time to create and share your work! Also, a big thank you to Mark for being a fantastic co-host.
The entries are posted below in reverse-alphabetical order by first name. If you tweeted your viz or thought you submitted one via the Google form but don’t see it here, let me know and I’ll work to include any additional entries ASAP.
Please click on the images to view the visualizations on Tableau Public (or similar).
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Young S.
For Better or For Worse
Vinodh K
The Great Barrier Reefs
Swati D.
Sharks!
Sarah B. and Kevin F.
Bean The Green Sea Turtle
Regis O.
Qawax on the Rocks
Michael S.
A Brief History of the Creature of the Black Lagoon
Meera L.
Penguins
Marc R.
Coral Reefs of Indonesia
Kelvin T.
Chinese White Dolphin of Hong Kong
Katelyn S.
Sea Turtles in Curacao
Jayshree D
The Right Wale Tale
Eve T.
The Plastic Problem
Christopher M.
Scotland’s Fishing Waters
Charles S.
West Coast Sardine Crisis
Boglarka B.
Sea Turtles in Florida
Ash S.
Baby Shark
Allan W.
Queensland Fishing 2018
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The next #IronQuest theme hasn’t been decided yet and due to the upcoming global Iron Viz feeders I won’t be running another #IronQuest for a few months. The next challenge will begin on 9th September and will run until midnight PST on 6th October 2019. More details to be announced soon!
Follow the hashtag #IronQuest on Twitter and LinkedIn and check out the Iron Quest section on my blog for more info.
Thanks for reading.
Sarah Loves Data 
This is a great initiative …it helps you to explore a lot.. and the feedback from the experts are just invaluable… Thank you Sarah for putting this together
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