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Creating Data Stories with Tableau Public

By : Ohmann
Book Image

Creating Data Stories with Tableau Public

By: Ohmann

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

Managing your profile


In order to view your work on the Internet, you need to go to Tableau Public's website and log in. From there, you can share your work with others, download it, promote it on social media, and also delete it, should the need arise.

  1. On your Internet browser, go to http://public.tableau.com.

  2. In the upper-right corner, click on SIGN IN, as shown in the following screenshot:

  3. Enter the credentials that you used to create your account.

The destination page that you reach when you login is your profile page. This is where all the dashboards that you created are organized. It is also a great place for you to add information about yourself. You can add links to your Twitter and LinkedIn accounts as well as the blogs or corporate websites that you would like to promote. (It's important to make sure that you have the permission before presenting URLs of organizations of which you're not an associate).

My profile is shown in the following screenshot:

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