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In 1965, designer, Massimo Vignelli and Bob Noorda were tasked with redesigning New York's newly formed subway system. Allen Hillery explains how data visualization practitioners can learn from the successes and downfalls of this project—like details around audience and design principles including color, shapes, and lines.

This year, I have a goal to walk or run 1000 miles. Tracking my progress is a vital part of the fun for me. During the design the process, I asked myself several key questions, which you should also consider when developing your next dashboards. Don’t leave mobile design until the end: build for mobile as you build for desktop.

Sean Miller shares his favorite examples of music data visualizations from the Tableau community.

Have you ever considered how much thought a band gives to the songs they play in their live sets? Chris Love and Rob Radburn take a look at over 200 of the most popular artists on setlist.fm (~180,000 sets) and analyze how their sets have changed over time.

Building an information experience for comprehension and retention will take your visualizations from "not bad" to "great." Lilach Manheim and Mike Cisneros explain how you can boost your data viz design for your audiences.

You can use Tableau Prep to track your account balance history! Joshua Milligan shares an example to help spark some ideas about how unstructured data can be tackled using Tableau Prep.

In a recent webinar with our team and Skyler Johnson, Data Visualization Designer at Spotify, we shared how you can dig into the data behind Spotify’s Top 200 and Viral 50 charts. Read this blog post to learn how to get started with Spotify data and create a basic dashboard to understand top tracks and artists by country.

Welcome to the Best of the Tableau Web! To keep you going for another month, here are more tips, tricks, and inspiration.

Looking for data viz resources? Use this list to explore best practices, get inspired by data viz podcasts, and dig into words of wisdom from the Tableau community.

Every audience’s interaction with an information experience begins with choice. Zen Masters, Lilach and Mike explore what factors influence choice.

Announcing Data + Music by Tableau, a Tableau community project that highlights the connections between data and the music we love through a series of data visualizations.

Guest bloggers Lilach Manheim and Mike Cisneros explain four goals behind a dataviz design philosophy that will help you create more meaningful information experiences and outcomes.