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Droid Does It In Public

Since last summer, Tableau Public visualizations have been touch-enabled on iPads. Now the Droid has arrived.
When you view a Tableau Public visualization on an Android browser, you'll now see touch-optimized controls:
This includes:

  • Touch-enabled filtering
  • Touch-enabled ...
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No Dearth of Sports Vizes Here

Well, we asked for some sports vizes and we got them! We were amazed by the quantity of entries we received, but more than that we were impressed with the high-quality data storytelling shown throughout all of the vizes.
Case in point? Ben Jones' winning viz ...

Category Sports
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Want to Make Your Viz Shine? Advanced Formatting Training This Friday

Every week we do a live training on Friday morning. Usually this is an introductory training that shows how to take data and create a ...

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Tableau Public Status Page

Occasionally, in the effort to make Tableau Public better and easier to use, we need to temporarily shut down the Tableau Public servers to install new versions of the product. Even less frequently, there are times when we need to shut down and restart the servers to ensure continued high performance. Now you can always find out ...

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Empowering Readers with Visual Data

Here's a tough task: Take a list of tax exemption numbers and clearly explain how it affects every aspect of a local community.
Journalist Dan Catchpole of the Yakima Herald has tried to do just that, with

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Investigative Reporters & Editors Conf 2012- The Tweets

The Tableau Public team (@eleanorpd, @letsviz, @visuallori with @ipo_dashboards manning the HQ in Seattle) is just back from the 2012 IRE Conference. We had full houses for Advanced and Beginner Training on Tableau Public, and were able to catch up with many of our ...

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Visualizing Internet Censorship

Google is no stranger to controversy, regularly making news headlines about privacy, piracy, and perhaps most-interestingly, government requests for content removal. Twice a year, Google publishes a 'Transparency Report,' detailing how many times governments around the world ...

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Congratulations to Tableau Public Authors in the Data Journalism Awards

Congratulations to the Seattle Times and the other recipients of the first Data Journalism Awards, sponsored ...

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The Tableau Interactive Sports Viz Contest

Time to stretch and warm up your viz muscles... the Tableau Sports Visualization Contest is here! You guessed it- take any data set related to sports and create an amazing visual story with it. Then submit it on the

Category Sports
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Tableau Public Upgrade

This evening (June 7) from 5PM-9PM Pacific, Tableau Public will be unavailable for publishing, viewing and new account creation as we upgrade the servers.
Any vizes that you have already published or embedded will be serving static images and will not be interactive. Sorry if this causes any inconvenience- this upgrade will ...

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