Tableau Community Projects And Visualization Best Practices » Week 4 » Fundamentals Of Visualization With Tableau

Q: Where is the first place you should go for help with Tableau questions?

The Community Forums are the first place you should look for answers to all of your Tableau questions. Be sure to provide an example workbook if you ask for specific help!

Q: The ________ Gallery is a showcase of visualizations on Tableau Public.

Every weekday, Tableau Public selects a community visualization to showcase in the Viz of the Day gallery.

Q: Which is more correct?

Not only is there a project for almost every day of the week, but there are also more generalized projects for affecting change in the world around us and also bettering our own skills.

Q: What are some of the merits of being involved with #MakeoverMonday?

#MakeoverMonday is a fantastic way to get experience with a wide variety of datasets. <br> The hosts encourage people to try to time-box to an hour or so. <br> It’s a fabulous way to exercise your creativity and try new things that maybe you can’t do at work for whatever reason. <br> With the weekly cadence, you quickly build up a robust portfolio of work that you can actually share with the public.

Q: On which social network is the Tableau community most active?

The Tableau community is most active on Twitter.

Q: True or False: Executives, other internal clients, and external customers will spend about the same amount of time reading a data visualization

Different types of users all have different needs and wants when it comes to interpreting and reading a data viz. If you know your audience well, you can design with this in mind.

Q: True or False: You need to be well-versed in the data to visualize the data

If you don’t understand your data well enough, your end user will be able to tell, and they won’t get it either.

Q: What is the approximate maximum number of colors you should use in a viz?

Try not to use more than about 5 colors, because people can’t store more than that in their memory and will start to get confused and overwhelmed.

Q: Which is the best color-blind-friendly alternative to the traditional red-green color palette used for showing “bad” vs “good” or “down” vs “up”?

While red vs green appears to be the about the same shade of grey-ish brown to a color blind user, orange and blue appear different enough to be distinguishable to a color blind user.