Our Favourite Tableau Blogs 2020
The best Tableau blogs we think you need to be following in 2020!
There are tons of Tableau, BI and data visualisation blogs out there with new ones coming along all the time. We think they’re a great way of learning, getting ideas and improving your use of Tableau as well as getting to know people in the Tableau Community.
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Every 3-6 months we re-visit our list of favourite blogs to let you know which ones you should be following and visiting regularly. Let’s get into it then, here’s our favourite blogs at the moment (in no particular order!):
The Data School Blog
One of the best blogs around for quick tips and tricks in Tableau (as well as other BI tools), posts come from a variety of people currently enrolled on the data school programme by The Information Lab.
There’s usually at least a couple of posts every few days covering a wide variety of things people have learned both from the data school and their work placements as new consultants in a variety of organisations.
Some of our favourite posts include:
You can find the blog at thedataschool.co.uk/blog
OneNumber
OneNumber is a weekly blog and offers really useful tips and tricks in using Tableau effectively. It also offers posts on how to do things in Tableau as well as thoughts around analysing and visualising data well.
We recommend checking out the following posts:
Check out the next weekly post each Thursday at onenumber.biz/blog-1
Tesselation Blog
Tesselation’s blog also covers a variety of different BI tools including Tableau as well as general dashboard and data analysis techniques. It’s a great source of tips and tricks for scenarios yo may encounter in a business context.
Posts come from a variety of Tesselation consultants and there tends to be new articles published at least every couple of days.
Recommended posts include:
You can find the blog at tessellationtech.io/articles
The Flerlage Twins Blog
Run by Tableau Zen Master twins Kevin & Ken Flerlage, they used to blog separately but now run The FlerlageTwins together with tips, tricks and ideas on innovative and use of Tableau.
There’s usually a new post at least weekly which focus around innovative uses of Tableau, good design and what’s new.
Make sure to check out these posts:
You can find the blog at flerlagetwins.com
Tableau Magic
Run by Tableau Zen Master Toan Hoang Tableau Magic focuses on innovative and more advanced chart types as well as looking at different ways to visualise data.
Alongside the blog they also have a YouTube channel and offer tutorials and courses on Undemy as well as links to other useful Tableau resources.
Our favourite recent posts include:
Check out the latest at tableaumagic.com
Junk Charts
Not really a Tableau blog but Junk Charts specialises in analysing charts and visualisations that have been published publicly to see how they can be improved and if there are any flaws in them.
This is a great blog for helping to think about how you communicate data and insights and avoid common pitfalls and bad practices.
Recent topics include:
Check out the latest posts at junkcharts.typepad.com/
Makeover Monday & Tri My Data
While these are actually two separate blogs they’re both focused around Makeover Monday so we’re including them together here.
Makeover Monday is a great initiative run by Eva Murray and Andy Kriebel where a public data visualisation and data source is shared each week for Tableau community members to make over and submit for review.
Eva’s Tri My Data blog concentrates on her own makeovers each week including what worked well, what could be improved and what she did. The Makeover Monday blog showcase some of the submissions for each week and both are great places to get inspiration and ideas.
Here are the links for both blogs:
If you’re serious about learning or improving your Tableau skills make sure to follow the blogs above and stay up to date, most of the owners and contributors above are active members of the Tableau Community so make sure to connect with them on Twitter and LinkedIn and don’t be afraid to ask for help!
We’ll be producing an updated list of the best blogs every 3-6 months, a list of all versions can be found below, along with an ongoing list of all the Tableau blogs we’ve discovered so far.
What do you think of our list? Do you have your own favourites that we’re missing? Let us know what you think in the comments or on twitter (@alan_murray84)or LinkedIn.