Tableau Trivia!~

Tableau Basics

100

Tableau was founded in

2003

200

Salesforce acquired Tableau in

2019

300

Tableau's primary function

Data Visualization

400

Tableau's file extension for extracts

.hyper (formerly .tde)

500

Tableau's Original IP was based on 

VizQL (Polaris patent)

Visualization Types

100

Suitable for proportions

pie chart (donut is better)

200

Shows Nested Hierarchical data

Treemap

300

Correlation Relationships on X and Y coordinates 

Scatterplot

400

Map visualization shaded to represent data

Choropleth

500

Type of bar chart for progress toward goals

Bullet Chart

Authors & Influencers

100

Author of Practical Tableau

Ryan Sleeper

200

Co-Author of Big Book of Dashboards

Steve Wexler, Jeffrey Shaffer

300

Author of Functional Art

Alberto Cairo

400

Host of Iron Viz

Andy Cotgreave

500

Community Leaders & Twin Brothers 

Flerlage Twins

History & Trivia

100

History Reference Tableau was named after

French Tableaux

200

Tableau's "Show Me" was inspired by which famous movie phrase

"Show Me the Money"

300

Mentor of Tableau Founders and Co-Founder came from

Pixar

400

Founders initial research was conducted at

Stanford University

500

Which major database company partnered early with Tableau?

Oracle

Tableau Community

100

What is the name of the annual conference?

TC

200

Tableau’s community-led visualization contest is called?

Iron Viz

300

Remote market host annual events called

Vizits

400

Tableau's first product launched publicly was

Tableau Desktop

500

The Author of the original inspiring visualization for Tableau

Charles Minard