Creating your Public Portfolio

The best thing you can do as a student is learn Tableau. The second best thing you can do is prove you know Tableau. The easiest way to do this is to create a profile on Tableau Public and publish the visualizations you make. I’ve heard countless stories of students and non-students who showed prospective employers their portfolio on Tableau Public and got a job because of the concrete evidence of their abilities in Tableau. I myself landed an internship because one of the company’s employees saw my Public portfolio! In this section I’ll give you the link to sign up for your profile, and show you examples of the amazing visualizations that people have made on Tableau Public.

Sign up: https://public.tableau.com/

One of the great things about Tableau Public is that if you see a viz that you like or are curious as to how it was made, you can download other people’s vizzes and take a look behind the scenes. Downloading and “reverse engineering” other people’s vizzes is how I learned the majority of the more advanced techniques in Tableau. However, downloading other people’s workbooks should just be for private learning. Don’t copy other people’s designs or ideas! If you like someone’s subject or design and want to make a similar viz that takes inspiration from someone else, make sure to give the original author credit in the details of your viz.

Below is a list of examples of the variety of vizzes on Public and a link to the viz and author profile. Be sure to click the link to the viz to fully experience the interactivity since I only include a partial screenshot of the viz.

To start you off: check out this compilation of “everyday dashboards” gathered by Chris Love. This will give you a great glimpse into the type of dashboarding you’ll see in the business world.

Below are Public vizzes from the community.

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