Innovative Tableau

Chapter 201

When I began writing Practical Tableau, the name of the project was Tableau 201. The number 201 represented two objectives. First, I was targeting 201-level material, as opposed to 101-level beginner topics or 601-level master topics. I know that by now most analysts have some foundational Tableau knowledge and are primarily looking to level up, but they also have a need to create practical applications that sometimes require more advanced topics to be translated for them so that they are accessible.

Second, I wanted to provide 201 different tutorials. Candidly, there have been times during the past five years when I was skeptical that I would ever reach that number. But Tableau has created such a flexible data visualization and analytics program that I am now convinced a little bit of problem-solving and elbow grease will lead to infinite solutions.

So here we are—at the end of Innovative Tableau—and 200 chapters later. I’ve decided to leave “Chapter 201” for you to write.

How can you innovate from here? What new technique can you share with us to collectively improve our understanding of data? How can you push your organization or cause to new heights by using data visualization and Tableau to translate raw data into something meaningful?

I think Ben Jones, founder of Data Literacy, put it best in the foreword of my first book when he said:

The world in which we live—our communities and our planet itself—are depending on each one of us becoming not just fluent in ...