Finland Tourism Dashboard
Interactive Tableau dashboard exploring Finnish tourism and accommodation trends across all regions from 1995 to 2019, built as a university capstone and graded 5/5.
An interactive multi-view dashboard built to explore accommodation and visitor trends across Finnish regions from 1995 to 2019, submitted as a capstone project for the Interactive Data Visualisation course at the University of Helsinki.
What this project was
The task was to take a real public dataset — Finnish accommodation statistics — and design an interactive visualisation that let a viewer explore it meaningfully, not just display it. The data spanned 25 years, 19 regions, and multiple dimensions: arrivals, nights spent, room prices, occupancy rates, and tourist nationality. The challenge was making that complexity navigable rather than overwhelming.
What I focused on
- Designed a five-panel dashboard layout connecting a clickable regional map, arrival breakdown by region, room price and occupancy trends over time, tourist nationality word cloud, and a treemap of arrivals by country
- Built cross-panel interactivity so selecting a region or year range updated all views simultaneously, letting the viewer follow a thread across dimensions
- Structured the visual hierarchy to surface the most informative comparisons first — Uusimaa's volume dominance, Lapland's distinct profile, the steady climb in room prices post-2010 — without requiring instruction
- Made the dashboard self-contained and readable to someone unfamiliar with Finnish geography
Outcome
Graded 5/5, the highest mark in the cohort. Selected twice as a course assistant following the project, supporting subsequent students through the same assignment.
What this shows
Early evidence of how I approach data work: the goal is never just to display numbers, but to design the conditions under which a viewer can find something true and useful. That instinct has carried through into product analytics, ResearchOps, and how I structure insight systems in professional work.
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