Tableau 8.2 screen

When data stops being slowly written into rows and columns and starts moving quickly online from sensors, Internet browsers and smartphones, other things change too. We are starting to see the information in more dynamic ways.

Dean Meyers‘s insight:

Covering Tableau’s forthcoming update to their flagship data visualization software, the key features for Tableau 8.2 will drive users to build more dynamic displays: Time, in particular change in data over time, always a difficult factor to add in data visualization, will be shown through interactivity more prominently accessable—and, hopefully, in a friendly and intuitive way.

 

Clickable narrative boxes that course the trajectory of change over time above a chart is the particular method described in the article. Having not seen the new software, I’m hoping there’s more interactivity offered in different ways, such as movable bars that, when pushed or pulled will show data changes over time, or clickable hot spots that allow for deep diving in and out of content for greater exploration.

 

I also haven’t heard about a Mac OS X desktop version of Tableau, which was on the horizon months ago, but remains to be seen (supposedly in Q2 along with this Tableau 8.2 release).

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View an embedded visual data story created with the Tableau 8.2