# Tableau public Viz Gallery Tour Part 1  - Tableau Conference 2022 #data22

> 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:** 2022-05-17
- **Format:** Video · 63 min watch · transcript available
- **Topics:** Data visualisation, Community, Industry trends
- **Tools:** Tableau (dashboards, filters, maps, public)
- **Canonical:** https://just-tim.com/posts/tableau-public-viz-gallery-tour-part-1-tableau-conference-2022-data22
- **Watch:** https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wg6LWsTaA8Y

This is a solo test live stream I ran just ahead of Tableau Conference 2022, where I tour the Tableau Public Viz Gallery and walk through a selection of the standout visualisations and Iron Viz finalists. Along the way I dig into the techniques behind each viz, share my expectations for the conference, and field comments coming in from across the various streaming platforms.

## Key takeaways

- The Viz Gallery is a free, browsable virtual environment on the Tableau website featuring the year's best Tableau Public work and the Iron Viz finalists, navigated room by room with your mouse and keyboard.
- Many gallery vizzes rely on resourceful 'hacks' such as drawing series of circles between data points to fake rounded bar ends, which is often the only way to push Tableau beyond out-of-the-box chart types.
- Modern dashboard interactivity like Idris's business dashboard combines show-and-hide containers with set actions and careful layout-container padding, something that would have been messy with collapsing containers a few years ago.
- Map layers can be stacked into a grid, but the topmost layer hogs the data points, so locking layers lets you interact with the ones beneath, as seen in Kim Lee Scott's Archibald Prize viz.
- Disabling images in Tableau Public is a useful teardown trick to reveal whether a polished-looking element is a genuine Tableau chart or simply a single background image.

## Chapters

- 0:00 Live stream test and setup
- 2:22 What the Viz Gallery is
- 3:48 Navigating the four gallery rooms
- 10:14 Expectations for TC22
- 13:38 Gurpreet Singh: charities viz
- 19:27 Idris: Superstore business dashboard
- 23:16 Olusolo: Africa agriculture viz
- 25:12 2021 F1 season viz
- 29:55 Global warming visualisations
- 33:36 Autumn Batani: call centre accelerator
- 38:29 CJ Mays: the art of conversation
- 42:27 Will Sutton: interpreting art quiz

Watch the full video, read the transcript and use chapter deep-links on the page: https://just-tim.com/posts/tableau-public-viz-gallery-tour-part-1-tableau-conference-2022-data22

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