I started using Tableau in 2007. I've learned a lot since then. In this video, I go back to the beginning and tell you how I got started. My journey won't be dissimilar to many of you. Plus, I provide some simple steps to learn faster.

Yesterday I saw this great dot plot from Jeff Plattner and thought I'd see if I could replicate it for practice.


Jeff used this video from my Tableau Tip Tuesday series to create his dot plot. I love how clean his design is and I hadn't built something like this in a while so I thought I'd give it a go. I chose a color scheme that matches the Nielsen colors, but otherwise, it's pretty much identical.

Thanks for the inspiration Jeff!!

During Makeover Monday week 38, Suraj Shah created what might be one of my favorite Makeover Monday vizzes ever.


With his permission, I wanted to try to remake his viz with a different data set. On the last day for DS6 at The Data School, they had a two hour task of creating a viz with the Chicago Taxi data that we used for MM week 6. I figured this might be a perfect data set to give it a go.

I don't like mine nearly as much as Suraj's. It sure was fun creating it though. It took me about 45 min total. There's nothing very complicated about the viz itself, and it's probably this simplicity that I like the most.

Thanks Suraj for the inspiration!! Click on the image below for the interactive version.

If you're anything like me, you love finding awesome, innovative Tableau visualizations.  I get so much inspiration from the Tableau Public Gallery and an ever growing list of bloggers.

As of today, Tableau will be "sharing one beautiful visual story a day".  How cool is that?

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