{"id":82126,"date":"2024-09-25T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-09-25T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.salesforce.com\/?p=82126"},"modified":"2024-09-26T06:20:42","modified_gmt":"2024-09-26T13:20:42","slug":"tableau-data-storytelling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.salesforce.com\/news\/stories\/tableau-data-storytelling\/","title":{"rendered":"From Football Charts to Grief Graphs: How Tableau Sparks Passion for Data Storytelling"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Since its founding, Tableau has become much more than a data tool. It is a story enhancer, career transformer, strategic adviser, and the foundation of an entire community.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Public education worker Bo McCready<\/a> never saw himself as a numbers guy. With a Ph.D. in Educational Leadership and Policy and a history of avoiding math, the Wisconsin native looked at digits strictly when he needed to generate graphs at work using Tableau<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His data journey began with curiosity. Having recently been to a Tableau Conference, he decided to use his newly created account on Tableau Public<\/a>, an online platform to create and share interactive visualizations of public data, to develop a visualization that looked at election results by county in his home state. Around the time of his 32nd birthday, he started wondering how common his birth date was and developed a visualization<\/a> of popular birthdays. His deep dive into Social Security Administration data revealed some surprising trends, like how superstition might play a role in when people give birth, noting the 13th of each month had a lower birth rate than the 12th or 14th. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

He learned others shared his curiosity when this visualization caught fire on Reddit<\/a>, gaining 55,000 upvotes and the attention of popular media outlets such as Digg<\/a>. As he continued \u201cvizzing\u201d \u2013 developing visualizations on Tableau Public for personal interest \u2013 many of his posts were featured at the top of Reddit, in educational materials, and in articles from publications like Forbes<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n