5 Ways to Use Tableau Public to Achieve Your Goals
It’s always a good time to outline goals that support your personal and professional development. We know it can be challenging to stay motivated and on track – but that’s where Tableau Public comes in. This powerful, free data visualization platform can help you track your progress, stay accountable, and achieve your goals all while improving your data skills. Here are 5 ways Tableau Public can help you make this your most successful year yet:
1. Track your budget and financial goals
Using Tableau Public Desktop Edition’s local save feature, you can easily track your budget and financial goals from the safety and privacy of your local desktop. Visualize your spending, savings, and investments to help you build new financial goals. Use charts like bar, line, or pie charts to help you seamlessly track your progress each month. (Pro tip: Remember to only publish public data to your Tableau Public profile. When using private data, use Tableau Desktop Public Edition.)
Personal Finance Dashboard
Corporate Finance Dashboard | VOTD
Personal Finance Dashboard
2. Monitor your health and fitness journey
Monitoring your health and fitness has never been easier! Log your workouts, step counts, calories, sleep, and more to help you reach your goals. You can export your data into Tableau Public and create dashboards using heat maps, bar charts, and line graphs to follow your progress. (Pro tip: Check out Tableau Public Ambassador Louis Yu’s blog on getting your fitness data ready for Tableau and his From Yoyo to Yolo viz)
The Path to Awakening - One Year of Sleep Data
Running Log
Daily step count
3. Create your own interactive resume
Looking to make a career change this year? Build your own interactive resume to share with your professional network. Create your own unique design and highlight your work experience, education, and skills. Use Gantt or line charts to show your career progression and use bar charts to showcase your skill levels. Build in interactive elements like drop down menus that drive to different resume sections or use tool tips to provide more context. (Pro tips: Want to stand out to prospective employers? Share a link to your interactive resume on your LinkedIn profile and enable the Hire Me button on your Tableau Public profile if you’re open to work.)
Check out this collection of CV and interactive resumes to get inspired. If you’re open to work, make sure you’ve enabled the Hire Me button so potential employers can contact you. As a bonus, you’ll be included in the Tableau Public Authors Avaliable for Hire viz too.
Kimly Scott | Visual Resume
Eric Balash Tableau Resume V2
An Interactive Resume
4. Track new skills and hobbies
Whether your goal is to learn Italian for your next vacation or read the NYT bestseller list – you can use Tableau Public to track and reach your milestones. Create your own data source by logging key metrics for your new activity or hobby. Use fields like date, time, duration spent, ratings, or totals. Build visualizations that showcase your progress, trends, or reviews. (Pro tip: Pulling inspiration from your hobbies and interests is a great way to showcase your data skills and build your viz portfolio!)
All the Books I've Read (2009-2019)
Books I Read in 2023
Fire Walk with Me: Everything I Watched in 2020
5. Improve your data literacy
In a world that is increasingly driven by technology, data literacy has never been more important. The ability to understand, interpret, and use data effectively can help you in decision making across your personal and professional lives. While building your own visualizations is a great way to build data literacy – it’s not the only way! You can also practice simply interacting with dashboards created by others to enhance your ability to read and interpret data. This action alone can improve your critical thinking skills. (Pro tip: Not quite ready to start building your own vizzes but open to exploring? Subscribe to VOTD to receive inspiration directly to your inbox most week days)
Ready to take your goals to the next level? Explore #QualifiedSelf on Tableau Public for more inspiration. Create a Tableau Public profile for free, and don’t forget to share how your goals are progressing with us on LinkedIn, Facebook, and X!
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