The Travel Planner

The Travel Planner and Carbon Emissions Calculator is pretty slick and an amazing example of what you can do with Tableau.

Poverty Maps

 Here are two interesting ways to map poverty:

• Which U.S. Counties Have the Most People Living in Poverty? is a classic choropleth map created in Tableau. Look, I like Tableau, but for mapping there are just better options.
• All metro high-poverty neighborhoods looks at change: which neighborhoods are newly poor, persistently poor, deepening poor, or turning around. This map is created in ArcGIS Online.

Making The Grade?

Making The Grade? is a report how state public school science standards address climate change and comes with neat data viz created in Tableau: States at a Glance

I'm just not sure that Tableau is the way to data viz this...if the spatial patterns are interesting, then use a proper GIS app!

All Colleges & Universities

The Complete Directory: U.S. Colleges & Universities is a pretty impressive interactive infographic with charts, maps, pop-ups, and more - all rendered in Tableau. And that may be the problem: Tableau is great, but I'm not sure it is suitable for such a large and complex data viz.

Tesla Supercharger Network

The Tesla Supercharger Network is a nice interactive map rendered in Tableau Public. Yep, Tableau Public can do interactive maps and spatial analysis and this may be a good option in certain situations. For all else: use a proper Web GIS!

Boston's Black Heritage Trail

Boston's Black Heritage Trail is a really nice 'story map', created in Tableau.

But, I'm torn. On one hand it shows-off what you can do with Tableau in terms of geography-based mapping and data viz, but on the other hand this would look so much better, especially on smartphones, using a tool such as Esri Story Maps that is specifically-designed for such a purpose.

Du Bois Wrapped Bar Charts

Nice article: Visualizing Categorical Data with Disproportionate Values Using Du Bois Wrapped Bar Charts.

• The book is great: W. E. B. Du Bois's Data Portraits: Visualizing Black America
• And here is the 'modern' rendition using Tableau: Analysis & Recreation of W.E.B. Du Bois' 1900 Data Portraits

Lewis and Clark Story Map

Here's a Lewis and Clark story map created in Tableau. Meh - looks okay, but Tableau is just not a great tool for this type of data viz.

Climate Change In the American Mind

Climate Change In the American Mind is a great resource.

1. Great reports, for example Climate Change In the American Mind (November 2019).
2. Global Warming’s Six America’s Screening Tools = the survey and instructions.
3. The CCAM Explorer: interactive charts (using Tableau), survey questions, and data.

Excel vs. Tableau vs. R

https://stephanieevergreen.com/excel-vs-tableau-vs-r/

Renewables since 2010

This is nicely-done: explore by region, country, and technology: How much electricity is generated from renewable energy sources?

Need a better bar chart?

Take a look at ways to make a better bar chart @ the Bar Chart Menu.

Minard in Tableau

See it here: Charles Minards's famous map rendered in Tableau.

Data Voyager

Data Voyager seems like the open-source version of Tableau.

• Data Voyager (load a data set)
• Data Voyager (example)
• Data Voyager demo (starts @ 15:50 minutes)

100 Color Palettes

Well-done in Tableau: 100 Color Palettes.

Visual Vocabulary

Visual Vocabulary is a cool interactive (created in Tableau) that connects data relationships to their most appropriate data visualizations. That's similar to the Chart-Doctor poster.

Ecological Footprint

The Ecological Footprint map is rendered nicely using Tableau. You can download the data for each country, but I can't find a way to just grab the complete data set.

Shifting Population Centers

Here are two nice web maps that illustrate the westward-shift of population across the USA:

• County Populations
• Top-10 Cities

Both use different web mapping tools - here a more simple approach (e.g. animated GIF or video) would be nice to include as well.

Flourish

Flourish is a new interactive data viz tool, similar in many ways to Datawrapper. People like Andy Kirk seem to like it. The catch, of course, is price: is the free version able to do what you need it to do? If yes = great! If no = pay or learn an open-source tool.

 Along those lines: have a look at RAWGraphs.

Pipeline Spills

Here's an interesting interactive map showing pipelines, pipeline operators, and spills. That's about it. The map is not very professional, for example: use aliases for the field names and include a link to the data. This would have been better in Tableau in my opinion.