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Notion now supports Tableau Embeds natively.

Notion just made embedding Tableau dashboards effortless, and it might be the best place yet to build your data portfolio.

Tim Ngwena •28 April 2023 •3 min read •7 min watch •3.3K

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Notion now lets you embed Tableau dashboards by typing backslash, choosing the embed block, and pasting the viz link directly
The new method works with private Tableau Cloud and Server links, not just Tableau Public, removing the old limitation
You can resize the embed window, but making it smaller than the viz's intended space crops it, so spacing matters
For full-width visualisations you need to set the Notion page to full width for the embed to expand properly
Notion's flexible blocks, toggles and text let you curate a tailored data portfolio that links out to blogs, videos and other assets

0:00Hey it's Tim here and today's video a quick

0:01update about Notion and Tableau. Let's get

0:04stuck in.

0:05Okay so out of the blue a couple of days

0:07ago Notion posted this post. Essentially

0:10private

0:10Tableau dashboards are now embeddable in

0:13Notion. Now when they posted this I was

0:15like wait a minute

0:16I've done a video on this and I swear it

0:18was way more difficult to even add a Table

0:20au public viz

0:21to Notion and actually when I checked my

0:23video you know that was the case if you

0:25actually

0:26do a quick google I'll do one now if I

0:28search Tableau and Notion my video comes up

0:31top and

0:32you can see that in August I showed people

0:34a way of doing it and it involved quite a

0:35few steps.

0:36It also made me realize that behind the

0:38scenes they've changed it and made it much

0:40much easier.

0:41So let me show you how much easier it is

0:44now. If I go ahead to my Tableau public

0:46profile I

0:47really need to get into the viz game again

0:49because I used to make vizs and I just don

0:51't do that

0:52anymore for lots of reasons maybe that's a

0:54separate video. But let's say I want to

0:56take this trees in

0:56New York visualization maybe not that one

0:58because that actually takes a while to load

1:00. Let's

1:01take this one a visit the day that I did

1:03from ages ago about Donald Trump even

1:06better pick.

1:07Let's take the link and if we head over to

1:10Notion I've got a page here that's been set

1:12up and what

1:13I'll do here is I'll just basically go and

1:15try and do an embed. So in Notion when you

1:18do backslash it

1:19gives you this little block insertion tool

1:21and you can just go ahead and type what you

1:23're looking for.

1:24I'll type embed, select embed and then I'm

1:27able to just go ahead and paste the link to

1:29the viz

1:30hidden bed link and lo and behold it loads.

1:34This was not how it worked before I promise

1:37you if I

1:38put my face over there you can see that it

1:40loads. Now one of the nice things about Not

1:42ion is not

1:42only of course that it's a very flexible

1:44tool but you can play around with the

1:46sizing of this window

1:47just by doing that and I think this

1:49actually represents one of the nicest ways

1:51to embed a

1:52tableau public viz. Now the thing is if you

1:54make the viz smaller than the space the viz

1:57is supposed

1:57to have then you'll see that it does

1:59actually cut it out so you want to make

2:01sure that whatever you

2:02do you do actually kind of get the spacing

2:04right but as far as I'm concerned if I just

2:06zoom out a

2:07little bit so we can see this work a little

2:09bit better you can see it fits the page

2:11nicely and

2:11you can have this set in Notion and what I

2:14realized is that oh this is super useful

2:16and the problem we

2:18had before is that you couldn't do this

2:20with a tableau cloud or tableau server link

2:22and now

2:23that's possible. I'm not going to show you

2:24that though because I have a bug with my

2:26tableau online

2:27instance where essentially the viz doesn't

2:29load. I'm not sure if it's a Notion thing

2:31or a tableau

2:32thing but in essence the exact same steps

2:34should work you should be able to take the

2:36url from your

2:37tableau public viz. Let's go ahead over

2:39here if I go back to this tweet you'll just

2:41get this

2:42particular url here grab that post it

2:45inside of Notion as an embed and it should

2:48just work.

2:49That is what this post is actually saying

2:50so if you actually get it to work let me

2:52know I'd love

2:53to see it working. An example maybe you

2:55should make your own video about the same

2:57thing but

2:59this actually opened up a new idea in my

3:01head because the thing about Notion is it's

3:03very very

3:04flexible you can set up a page however you

3:07want and I think it's made Notion the

3:09number one place

3:11to do data portfolios. What am I talking

3:13about? Well when you start to work in a

3:15tableau space

3:16your tableau public profile becomes your

3:18sort of creative space a place to showcase

3:21your work and

3:21actually the tableau public team have done

3:23an incredible job over the last few weeks

3:26and months

3:26even to make this a much much better place.

3:29That said you don't necessarily always want

3:32everything

3:32to be visible on your public profile and

3:34sometimes when you're working with a job

3:37recruiter or you go

3:38into an interview and you want to send

3:40someone one link you'd like to be able to

3:42curate what's

3:42on that page and what is nice about Notion

3:45if I go back to my where did it go if I go

3:47back to this

3:48little tab here you'll see that it actually

3:50lets you control a lot more than just what

3:52we see so

3:52let me do this let me go ahead and grab

3:54this let's just delete this block and let

3:56me put my face back

3:57on here and one of the nice things you can

3:59do is you can set up blocks so just as a

4:01very simple

4:02example let me go and get another viz let's

4:04go get something smaller let's get this one

4:07for example

4:07let's take this presidential race uh viz

4:10another visit of the day i'll go ahead and

4:13share that grab

4:14the link and copy that and the nice thing

4:17about this is I actually figured out a

4:19technique in this

4:20particular visualization so in my portfolio

4:23I could be trying to showcase a technique

4:25so what

4:25I can do here is I can see backslash embed

4:28and if we go ahead and select that we'll

4:30paste this in

4:31hit embed link and you'll see that it goes

4:34ahead and adds the visualization as you

4:36would expect

4:36now the really nice thing is that now I can

4:39put this in context I can actually start to

4:42sort of

4:42build a page around this so you could say

4:44something like you could do like a h3 maybe

4:48and say

4:48tableau visit of the day and you could add

4:53some text about this so in this viz I

4:58figured out a

5:00tracking reference line reference line okay

5:04and you can start to add text and the the

5:09flexibility

5:09of notion allows you to really sort of go

5:11to town with this and then you can add

5:13something called a

5:14toggle so you can say look let's go add a

5:17toggle list and we can say view the viz

5:20okay and now that

5:21you've done that you can add other visit of

5:23the day so maybe you've got like all my

5:25visit of the

5:25days all the things you want to do and you

5:28can just drag this particular viz inside of

5:30that

5:30content block and so now it sits inside of

5:33this little block now the frustrating thing

5:35with this

5:36if I just try and expand it wider you see

5:38it doesn't go wide enough to kind of expand

5:41from

5:41the git so what I have to do is I have to

5:43go up here and set the page to full width

5:45and now it

5:45works but the the text looks a little bit

5:47weird but what it does allow you to do is

5:49you can put

5:50multiple visits in here and when the user

5:52drops this toggle down they see the viz and

5:54it's actually

5:55going to load and then they can interact

5:57with it and you can see here the technique

5:59that I actually

5:59figured out was this ability for the

6:01tracking line to follow on a separate chart

6:03whilst hovering over

6:05the first one there's a video of how to do

6:06this already on my youtube channel from way

6:08back when

6:09and but in essence I think this is a really

6:11nice setup you could do some really really

6:12powerful

6:13things the other thing you could do with

6:15this if you want to get it all left aligned

6:16is you can

6:17actually play around with the layout on

6:19notion and go to town with that but in a

6:20separate video

6:21we'll actually go ahead and build a really

6:23good data portfolio using all the

6:25capability of notion

6:26to do layout but then the power of embed

6:28ding in tableau to put them inside of this

6:31and I think

6:31this is a much nicer thing to be able to

6:33share because you can customize it you can

6:34make it your

6:35own and you can also link off to blogs and

6:37other assets that you've created in other

6:39places even

6:40videos of talks that you've done this is a

6:42much much better way of showcasing your

6:44work so look

6:45out for the video when I get to do that in

6:46the next month or so but anyways thanks for

6:48watching

6:49and I'll catch you in the next one

6:50you

6:59you

7:00[BLANK_AUDIO]

Rollup

Notion has quietly made embedding Tableau dashboards far simpler than before, and Tim explains why this now makes Notion one of the best places to build a curated data portfolio.

Tim previously made a video showing a multi-step workaround for embedding a Tableau Public viz in Notion. Notion has since changed how embeds work behind the scenes, so that old method is no longer needed.

The Breakdown

Notion announces native Tableau embed support 0:00

Notion posted that private Tableau dashboards can now be embedded directly, prompting Tim to check whether this simplified his old, more complicated workaround. It had — the process is now much easier.
Paste the viz link into an embed block 0:42

Copy the link to your Tableau Public viz, then in Notion type backslash to open the block insertion tool, choose 'embed', and paste the link straight in. The viz loads immediately with no extra setup required.
Resize carefully to avoid cropping 1:42

You can drag the embed window to resize it, which is one of the nicer ways to fit a viz into a page. As a caveat, shrinking it smaller than the viz's intended dimensions will cut content off, so keep the spacing appropriate.
Cloud and Server links now work too 2:12

The same embedding steps should now work for private Tableau Cloud and Server links, not just Tableau Public — previously this wasn't possible. Tim couldn't demo it live due to a bug on his end, but expects the same paste-and-embed approach to apply.
Notion as a curated data portfolio 2:59

A Tableau Public profile is a good showcase space, but you can't control exactly what's visible there. Notion lets you build a page with only the vizzes and context you choose — useful when sending a single curated link to a recruiter or interviewer.
Add context with headings, text and toggles 4:02

Around each embedded viz you can add headings, explanatory text about the technique you used, and toggle blocks so viewers can expand to view and interact with the viz only when they choose to. This lets you group multiple 'viz of the day' examples under organised, collapsible sections.
Set the page to full width for wide vizzes 5:21

If a viz embedded inside a toggle or block doesn't expand as wide as expected, set the whole Notion page to full width — this is a required fix for that specific layout issue, though it can make surrounding text look less tidy.
Link out to build a fuller portfolio 6:21

Beyond embedding vizzes, Notion's layout flexibility lets you link off to related blogs, videos or talks, making it a stronger way to showcase your work than a profile page alone. Tim plans a follow-up video on building a full data portfolio this way.

Worth Knowing

Shrinking an embed below the viz's natural size crops the content rather than scaling it down cleanly.
Wide vizzes embedded inside blocks or toggles need the Notion page set to full width to expand properly, which can affect surrounding text layout.
Tim couldn't verify the Cloud/Server link workflow live due to a bug on his end, so it's based on Notion's announcement rather than his own confirmed test.

Use It When

Reach for this when you want to send someone — a recruiter, interviewer or collaborator — a single curated link showing your best Tableau work with context, rather than pointing them at your whole public profile.

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