Over the past couple of years, I’ve spent some time on my newest hobby of running a dataviz themed sports shop on Etsy.com, which you can find here. The items in my shop were all created through the use of two tools; Tableau Public and Adobe Illustrator. Recently, several members of the community have reached out inquiring how I go about printing my visualizations. So, in addition to scheduling a BrainDate at Tableau Conference-ish about the subject of printing vizzes, I also wanted to write up a quick blog
So, the process outlined below is a process of printing Tableau Public visualizations I’ve found to work well for the needs of my Etsy shop. This process requires the use of Adobe Illustrator, but is by no means the only way to go about turning your Tableau Public work into a beautiful piece of wall art. Before we begin, I’ll point you to this important blog post by Jeffrey Shaffer in which he covers a variety of options explored during the making of “The Big Book of Dashboards.” If you prefer to not go thr
Step 1. Create a Tableau Public visualization – Create or identify the Tableau Public visualization you’d like to turn into a beautiful piece of wall art. Make the visualization the same size as the print you’d like to hang on your wall. For instance, if you’d like an 18×24″ print, make your Tableau dashboard 1800 pixels wide by 2400 pixels tall. Do not include any text in your viz, as we’ll use Adobe Illustrator to add the text in a later step. As we walk through the process, we’ll use my recent Black Live