Visual Data Storytelling with Tableau

Tell Insightful, Actionable Business Stories with Tableau, the Worlds Leading Data Visualization Tool!

Visual Data Storytelling with Tableau brings together knowledge, context, and hands-on skills for telling powerful, actionable data stories with Tableau. This full-color guide shows how to organize data and structure analysis with storytelling in mind, embrace exploration and visual discovery, and articulate findings with rich data, carefully curated visualizations, and skillfully crafted narrative.

You dont need any visualization experience. Each chapter illuminates key aspects of design practice and data visualization, and guides you step-by-step through applying them in Tableau. Through realistic examples and classroom-tested exercises, Professor Lindy Ryan helps you use Tableau to analyze data, visualize it, and help people connect more intuitively and emotionally with it.

Whether youre an analyst, executive, student, instructor, or journalist, you wont just master the tools: youll learn to craft data stories that make an immediate impact--and inspire action.

Learn how to:
Craft more powerful stories by blending data science, genre, and visual design
Ask the right questions upfront to plan data collection and analysis
Build storyboards and choose charts based on your message and audience
Direct audience attention to the points that matter most
Showcase your data stories in high-impact presentations
Integrate Tableau storytelling throughout your business communication
Explore case studies that show what to do--and what not to do
Discover visualization best practices, tricks, and hacks you can use with any tool
Includes coverage up through Tableau 10