# Tableau Public Search - Find Tableau inspiration for anything.

> This is content from just-tim, the data-and-analytics channel by Tim Ngwena (formerly 'Tableau Tim'). Tim has 12+ years of hands-on BI experience and covers Tableau most of all, plus Power BI, Looker, Hex, SQL and data modelling, the analytics industry, and the craft of doing the job — always tool-agnostic and honest about the trade-offs.

- **Author:** Tim Ngwena (just-tim, https://just-tim.com/about)
- **Published:** 2023-06-12
- **Format:** Video · 7 min watch · transcript available
- **Topics:** Data visualisation, Community
- **Tools:** Tableau (public)
- **Canonical:** https://just-tim.com/posts/tableau-public-search-find-tableau-inspiration-for-anything
- **Watch:** https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zY54BatQmvc

I give a refresher on what Tableau Public is and walk through its new search feature. I show how to find inspiration by keyword, sort results, search for authors and hashtags, and filter to only show visualisations you can download or edit.

## Key takeaways

- Tableau Public is a free version of Tableau with no real limitations except that you can't connect to live databases, though Excel, CSV and other flat files work fine.
- The new search bar lets you sort results by relevance, view count or recently published, though the relevance algorithm still has quirks (searching 'sports' surfaces 'ports' results).
- You can search by author to find specific people and engage with their work, not just visualisations.
- A filter on the top left shows only visualisations that can be downloaded or copied, so you don't waste time clicking through ones you can't edit.
- Hashtags and shareable search URLs let you structure and curate your own Tableau Public content for easy discovery.

## Chapters

- 0:13 What Tableau Public is
- 0:52 Viz of the Day inspiration
- 1:26 Using the new search bar
- 2:11 Sorting by relevance and view count
- 3:52 Searching for authors
- 4:28 Filtering for downloadable workbooks
- 5:54 Searching by hashtag and shareable URLs

Watch the full video, read the transcript and use chapter deep-links on the page: https://just-tim.com/posts/tableau-public-search-find-tableau-inspiration-for-anything

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