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Could making the decision to animate your data visualisations be the way forward for your organisation?

Rickey Gates’ newest adventure. Rickey Gates is one of the most recognized extreme runners in the world. For his Every Single Street project, he ran every single street in San Francisco. Data viz expert Yvan Fornes helped him visualize all of his running routes—over 1,317 miles in 46 days—in Tableau.

On the International Day of Persons with Disabilities, Nick Hara was given two minutes to advocate for people with disabilities using data visualization. In this post, Nick shares the process behind the dashboard along with his learnings.

A chat with map co-creator Joshua Jelly-Schapiro about the process of creating “City of Women” and how maps help us see places in new ways.

Tableau Visionary Ryan Sleeper shares his tips for creating mobile-first dashboards in Tableau, including how to: determine if you should consider a mobile-first design, scroll multiple sheets at once and eliminate default scroll bars completely, leverage tooltips, and more.

Make a viz of your Tableau Conference schedule with the Web Data Connector, where you can easily pull in TC schedule data into Tableau for your visualization pleasure. Here is how to do this in three easy steps.

Color is one of the easiest ways to control the style of your data visualization. A good use of color makes visuals more engaging, makes insights pop off the view, and adds some professional polish. Learn to use color in your visualizations to communicate your narrative.

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.

Since our brains aren’t remembering things as they once did, it’s yet another challenge to us, as visual creators, to make our works memorable even against this gradient of forgetfulness, this necessity of filtering out vast rivers of content from our consciousness lest we find ourselves overwhelmed, flooded, and washed away.

So, you’ve built a Tableau dashboard extension? Awesome! But what’s the user experience like interacting with it? Is it easy to use? Is it aesthetically pleasing? Is it effective? Follow this guide to ensure that your extension provides a user-friendly experience and is delightful!

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.