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Welcome
Tableau in motion | Tableau’s new native animations
Paul Isaacs
Staff Engineer
Tableau
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Amanda Luthy
Senior QA Engineer
Tableau
Agenda
Tableau Animation: What and Why?
Theory and Design
Usage and Best Practices
Our Team
Q&A
Tableau Animation: What and Why?
“Follow the Treat!”
Flow is the mental state of operation in which a person performing an activity is fully immersed in a feeling of energizedfocus, full involvement, and enjoyment of the activity.”
Good Ol Wikipedia
“One More Round”
“Scatterplot Shell Game”
Scatterplot on Page Shelf
The Problem:What mark went where?
“Comings and Goings”
Filtering Bars In And Out
The Problem:Which mark left? Which mark is new?
“Will it Slice?”
Slicing vs Non-Slicing filters.
The Problem:Which is it? What’s the difference?
“Wait, What?”
Dashboard Filtering
The Problem:What just happened? What are these things and how do they relate?
“Sort of Confusing”
Sorting By Different Criteria
The Problem:It’s hard to understand the different options, or follow a manual sort.
“Another Dimension”
Sorting Nested Dimensions
The Problem:When dimensions nest, each dimension sorts differently. Do you know the difference?
“Home On the Range”
Tableau Frames to Fit the Range of Values
The Problem:Changes in framing can be disorienting when adding or removing marks.
“Pane and Suffering”
Swapping, Adding, and Removing Measures
The Problem:It’s the shell game again, this time with sub-panes..
Part 1 Recap
Flow
Analysis
Presentation
Theory and Design
Disclaimer!
Part 1: What and Why?The last section showed a Tableau Prototype with features we hope to release.
Part 2: Theory and DesignMuch of what we show you in this section is NOT part of Tableau. It contains missteps, bad versions of things, hidden debug features, and other people’s work.
Motion is Beautiful
And Data is Beautiful
Animating Data: We must choose wisely
Early Brainstorming
In the beginning, nothing was off the table.
Personality?
Frame from Chuck Jones’ “High Note,” in which music notes come to life.
Physics?
Flocking?
Back To Reality
Clippy’s Sins
• Attempted Cuteness
• Making People Wait
• Valueless Distraction
• Distancing From Task
Tableau Best Practices
Know your audience
Consider display size
Plan for fast load times
Leverage the sweet spot
Limit number of views & colors
Add interactivity to encourage exploration
Format Largest to Smallest
Leverage ToolTips
Eliminate Clutter
Test
10 Best Practices for Building Effective Dashboards Ellen Nadelhoffer
Preattentive Attributes
Motion is a Preattentive Attribute
Three Principles
Always Tell The Truth
Be Direct
Fast for Analysis, Slow for Presentation
“Don’t Go There”
Jockeying for Position
It looks cool when marks behave like physical entities jockeying for position.
But such animations lie…
Always Tell The Truth
No Squash or Stretch
No Collision Detection or Jockeying for Position
“Please No Bouncing"
Motion that is not Direct
It’s fun. But we’re not here to provide fun, we’re here to provide clarity.
“What happens at the Bellagio stays at the Bellagio”
Ripple Delays
Pretty, but they hide meaning.
“Don’t Delay!”
Be Direct
No Bending or Smoothing of Paths
Start & End Keys only
No Anticipation, Overshoot or Bouncing
No Ripple Delays
Fast for Analysis, Slow for Presentation
Short durations keep work flowing.
Longer times allow for showing.
Part 2 Recap
It’s all about clarity.
Tableau animation is a way for us to communicate to you what Tableau is doing, and what is happening to the data.
Anything else is superfluous.
*Fun can come later! But only if/when YOU want to add it.
Usage and Best Practices
“Is This Thing On?”
Accessing Controls
The Problem:You want to use animation, and you need to know the entry points.
“Whoa! I said, Whoa!”
Slowing it Down
The Problem:There are a lot of moving pieces and you want to take a closer look.
I exited, I moved, I sorted, I entered.”
Not Julius Caesar
“Fire Phasers!”
Filtering a Sorted Graph
1. Fade to Exit
2. Change Measures
3. Perform New Sort
4. Fade to Enter
“I Only Have Eyes For You”
Animation with Highlighting
It’s easier to follow multiple highlighted marks with animation.
“Too Much of a Good Thing”
Isolate Your Animations
The Problem:You’ve got multiple vizesanimating on a dashboard and you’d really just like one or two to move.
Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.
Mark Twain
“Don’t Lie By Leaving Things Out”
Because.
The Problem:You’ve got some data and you really want to gloss over a bit of bad news. Should you?
Spoiler: No.
Part 3 Recap
Choose the Right Speed
Choose between Sync’ed, Phased, or Cut
Try Highlighting
Keep it Clean
Don’t Lie
Tableau in motion | Tableau’s new native animations
S E S S I O N R E P E AT S
Thursday Oct 25 | 10:45AM – 11:45AM | MCCNO – L2-225
Tableau in motion | Tableau’s new native animations
Thursday Oct 25 | 2:15PM – 3:15PM | MCCNO – L3 – 352
Tableau Labs: Animations in Tableau
R E L AT E D S E S S I O N S
Wed Oct 24 | 12:15PM – 5:45PM | Idea Lab 10
Tableau Labs: Animations in TableauThurs Oct 25 | 12:00PM – 2:30PM | Idea Lab 12
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Our Team
Who Are You People?
Sean Boon – Principal Project Manager
Jamie Campbell –Senior Engineering Manager
Paul Isaacs – Staff Software Engineer
Kyle Johns – Principal Software Engineer
Walter Litwinczyk – Senior Software Engineer
Amanda Luthy – Senior QA Engineer
Katrina Midgley – Product Manager
Allison Whilden – Staff UX Designer
Q&A
References
• Animation & Data Visualization:• https://medium.com/state-of-analytics/animated-data-visualizations-do-
they-help-or-hinder-the-user-experience-27f638b24b7c• http://vis.stanford.edu/files/2007-AnimatedTransitions-InfoVis.pdf• https://www.cc.gatech.edu/~stasko/papers/infovis08-anim.pdf
• Tableau Best Practices:• https://www.tableau.com/learn/whitepapers/10-best-practices-building-effective-
dashboards• https://onlinehelp.tableau.com/current/pro/desktop/en-us/dashboards_best_practices.html
• Preattentive Attributes:• https://learnforeverlearn.com/preattentive/• https://www.interaction-design.org/literature/article/preattentive-visual-properties-and-how-to-use-them-in-
information-visualization
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