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Tag: Art with Tableau

  • Tableau’s Viz as Art Contest – My Entries

    A sneak preview of my entries for Tableau’s “Viz as Art” Contest

    Tableau Management Dice Art PortraitsIt is visualization contest time again over at Tableau Software. This time it is a “Vis as Art” contest.

    I have published a couple of Tableau workbooks visualizing art here on Clearly and Simply in the last few years:

    Tableau Replica of Curtis Steiner’s 1,000 Blocks

    6 Famous Paintings in Tableau

    Dice Portraits of the Tableau Management

    Since I had a little selection to pick from without much extra work, I decided to take part in the contest this time and I submitted three entries: one as it is (replica of Curtis Steiner’s 1,000 blocks), a revised and enhanced one (Tableau Management Dice Portraits) and a new one (La Linea goes Tableau).

    I have seen the great quality of the shortlisted entries and the winners of former contests. Therefore I am not pitching my hopes too high, one of my visualizations could make the cut for the 10 best entries which will be published on the Tableau Public Blog. Hence, I thought I’d share my entries with you here.

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  • Dice Portraits of the Tableau Management

    Mosaic Dice Portraits of Tableau Software’s Leadership Team

    Dice Portrait of Christian ChabotFirst things first: this is a fun post. Don’t expect to learn much from today’s article, neither about Data Visualization in general nor about special tips and tricks in Tableau.Today’s post is in line with 2 fun articles about (re-)creating art with Tableau Software:

    Tableau Replica of Curtis Steiner’s 1,000 Blocks

    and

    6 Famous Paintings in Tableau

    The article is adopting an idea of creating images using different faces of a dice: mosaic dice pictures or portraits. The post includes the beautiful article and video I stole this idea from and my Tableau workbook showing the portraits of the members of the Tableau Management Team using dice face custom shapes.

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  • 6 Famous Paintings in Tableau

    Visualize 6 world famous paintings with Tableau Software

    © Songkran / flickr.comIt has been a very long time since the last post here on Clearly and Simply: the start of a guest post series by Sheel Bhatiani about how to Expand your reach in Tableau with Parameters.

    Ever since I was so snowed under with work that I wasn’t able to do the final editing and formatting of Sheel’s articles. I hope for your understanding.

    I know that most of you are eagerly waiting for the guest series to be continued. Agreed, it is long overdue, but please bear with me, I can’t let this one go: Yesterday the Art Newspaper published that the earliest copy of the Mona Lisa has been found at the Prado in Madrid, Spain. Today, Darren Chalk over at The Data Studio published the first article of a series of posts about Art in Tableau.

    This reminded me of publicly available data sets to visualize famous paintings like van Gogh’s Self Portrait, Botticelli's The Birth of Venus and – you guessed it – Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa.

    Way back in June 2010, I already published an emulation of a piece of art using Tableau: The Tableau Replica of Curtis Steiner’s 1,000 Blocks and – although totally useless for business applications – that post was very well received by my readers.

    Thus, I just can’t let this opportunity slip through my fingers and I intersperse this little article before we will continue with Sheel’s next article.

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