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Creating Data Stories with Tableau Public

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Creating Data Stories with Tableau Public

Overview of this book

Tableau Public is a very useful tool in anyone's data reporting toolbox that allows authors to add an interactive data element to any article. It allows investigative journalists and bloggers to tell a “data story”, allowing others to explore your data visualization. The relative ease of Tableau Public visualization creation allows data stories to be developed rapidly. It allows readers to explore data associations in multiple-sourced public data, and uses state-of-the-art dashboard and chart graphics to immerse the users in an interactive experience. This book offers investigative journalists, bloggers, and other data story tellers a rich discussion of visualization creation topics, features, and functions. This book allows data story tellers to quickly gain confidence in understanding and expanding their visualization-creation knowledge, and allows them to quickly create interesting, interactive data visualizations to bring a richness and vibrancy to complex articles. The book takes you from basic concepts in visualization creation, like connecting to data sources, cleansing data, chart types, common functions, map creation, and publishing to the Web, to more advanced functions. It is a great overview and reference guide for beginner to intermediate Tableau Public data story tellers, and covers creation of Tableau Public visualizations of varying complexities.
Table of Contents (11 chapters)
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Index

Public data


The data sets that are publicly available or the ones that you have compiled on your own, are ideal for Tableau Public. Since all users will be able to download this data and create their own visualizations once you have published your workbook, your data set should not contain information that may be considered sensitive, which can be anything that can be used to identify a private individual or reveal confidential corporate information or intellectual property.

Public data is readily available online. Tableau Public maintains a catalog of publicly available data. Much of this data is produced by various governments, economic groups, and sports fans, along with a link to, and a rating for each source. This catalog is updated monthly, and it is a great introduction to using publicly available data. You can find it at http://public.tableau.com/s/resources.

The Google Public Data Explorer has a large collection of public data, including economic forecasts and global public health...