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shared by Steve Zuiker on 14 Jun 14 - No Cached

In the new version, Tableau 8.2, people are encouraged to shift from making individual maps, bar charts and fever lines that illustrate information. Instead, Tableau has added a series of narrative boxes that go above each chart; clicked through in order, the charts should be better at using different data points to prove an overall case.
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Data has moved from something that is painstakingly collected, stored and downloaded to something that more often automatically streams online.
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we are starting to think of information in more dynamic ways, and need to visualize information as something that changes over time. That is a big change from a typical PowerPoint presentation, which presents data in more static ways.
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At its best, this could mean we’ll move from seeing projections of data less as a single concept, which must be digested and then considered against another distinct point. Instead, it could be more of a fluid persuasion, based on lots of related information.
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Tableau is hardly alone in this shift to dynamic illustration. Stamen Design, a company based in San Francisco that has worked for Google and Facebook, increasingly uses animations of data points. A company called ClearStory Data helps people move through mountains of big data by interactive charts and maps. Even Microsoft offers animations as an addition to its PowerPoint product.
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