I always prefer to keep my profile link in my CV and this would give a chance to recruiters to have a look into my work and get a better understanding of my visual skills instead of just reading a text in my CV. Tableau Public Profile really helped me 2.5 years ago with my job switch. Fortunately, I saved these scenarios to my tableau public, so I quickly downloaded the dashboard and sorted out the issue. A few years ago, I worked on some complex calculations, and after some time, I came across a similar situation, but I didn’t remember the process/calculations. This is the number one reason why I prefer Tableau public. Now, I’m going to explain the story with 10 reasons. Every weekday, the Tableau Public team selects one data visualization to be featured as Viz of the Day (VOTD).
#TABLEAU PUBLIC DATA SOFTWARE#
Note: Tableau Software offers one-year free trials to students through their academic program. There are also other limitations, such as not allowing data sets with more than 1 million rows.Īll these problems can be overcome if you’re willing to pay for Tableau Personal Edition, but with a price tag of $999 it’s beyond the budget of most smaller and/or local NGOs. This can be a problem if you’re working with sensitive data. The free version also requires that all your visualisations can be seen by anyone online. I’ve spent hours tinkering with visualisations to make them perfect, only to have all my work lost because the internet dropped out and I couldn’t save it. In developing countries where the internet is unreliable this can be a serious problem. When you use the free version of Tableau Public all your visualisations are saved online. However, it does have one very serious limitation for people working in international development – it needs the internet. Almost any type of chart you could imagine (and many that you couldn’t imagine) are available. Tableau Public has an excellent range of features. Here’s what it looks like showing only the results for the NGO partner BWAP: This allowed users to see results for particular NGOs, particular activities, or particular target areas that they were interested in. I setup the dashboard so that the results could be filtered using the buttons on the right. Here is an example of a visualisation I created to report the results of an endline survey to stakeholders ( click here to see the interactive version): They even run live introductory webinars for absolute beginners. If you aren’t very familiar with pivot tables then you should start by watching the training videos available on the Tableau Public website.
#TABLEAU PUBLIC DATA TRIAL#
I’ve used Tableau Public to liven up presentations and to report program results to stakeholders. If you’re able to use pivot tables in Excel then with a bit of trial and error you should be able to use Tableau Public quite easily.
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For example, the dashboard may allow the user to select a particular province in Cambodia so that only the result for that province will be shown. Here’s an example where I’m creating a map of poverty rates in Cambodia:įinally, you can combine multiple charts into a “dashboard” that includes buttons for the user to filter the data. The program comes pre-loaded with maps of most countries, so you can also combine data with maps. Once your data set is open you simply drag and drop things to create different types of interactive charts.
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Then you open your data set from an Excel or text file. You start by downloading and installing the software on your computer. To see some examples of what’s possible check out the Tableau Public Gallery and Viz of the Day. Tableau Public is a free tool that allows anyone to create interactive charts and maps (referred to as a “data visualisation” or “viz”). Do you ever wish you could send your donor a cool interactive map showing the results of your project, rather than just a boring report or PowerPoint presentation? Well, now you can.