# Volvo Ocean Race Tableau Dashboard Animated

> 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:** 2014-10-31
- **Format:** Video · 1 min read · transcript available
- **Topics:** Data visualisation
- **Tools:** Tableau (dashboards, maps)
- **Canonical:** https://just-tim.com/posts/volvo-ocean-race-tableau-dashboard-animated
- **Watch:** https://youtu.be/SiF64fvpqU4

This is a short, silent showcase of an animated Tableau dashboard I built visualising the Volvo Ocean Race. It demonstrates how movement and animation can bring sailing route data to life in Tableau.

## Key takeaways

- An animated dashboard which was animated using pages in Tableau and sped up really fast to bring it to life.

Watch the full video, read the transcript and use chapter deep-links on the page: https://just-tim.com/posts/volvo-ocean-race-tableau-dashboard-animated

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