In the penultimate day of dashboard week, we had the pleasure of working with NASA's publicly available APIs. Plenty of interesting data to look at, and a good hour was spent perusing the different APIs finding which specific API piqued my interest the most. Finally, I settled upon using the mars rover image API, that brought in images from a specific day of Rover and his photography work.

Then my next task was to deal with Json. Firstly, I had to parse json, then flatten him using Alteryx. The first issue we had as a cohort, was not cacheing our workflows and quickly hitting the api rate limit and being locked out.

After that, the visualizing began and I used excalidraw for my beginning sketch.

Then I encountered an issue with inserting images into tableau and eventually found a way via the shapes option in Tableau. This involved using alteryx and the blob output tool to bring in data as a blob and then output as a png, allowing me to have the correspending png for each row of data.

Then i started tableauing:

The entire process of today's work wasn't quite as straightforward as it might sound like in this blog, but the hiccups were small and overcome without too much difficulty.