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Tableau Data Blog Finder. Data Visualization. How To Do Keyword Research For Your Site. Part 1: How To Do Keyword Research For Your Site Selecting the right keywords to get visitors to your website is one of the key aspects of Internet marketing.

How To Do Keyword Research For Your Site

There are a few basic steps you need to go through when hunting out the keywords you are going to use on your website. Home. Alltop - Top Data Visualization News. Tell a story with data. FiveThirtyEight. Background Image Maps with Tableau. Tableau discovers the world – more detailed maps by using background images and a little trick in Microsoft Excel Tableau Software offers a very easy way of overlaying data on a map, even without requiring the geographical references (latitude and longitude) in the data source.

Background Image Maps with Tableau

It automatically identifies field names in your data that are appropriate for visualizations on a map, like state or county and generates the according latitudes and longitudes. If you are using data of the United States, Tableau provides a very high level of detail (state, county, zip code area) and displays the boundaries and names of the regions on the underlying map. You can even enhance the visualization with a choropleth map showing a variety of predefined US census data. For other counties of the world, however, Tableau does not (yet?) Tell a story with data. Beautiful Tableau dashboards.