A few words on this feature from @tableaupublic and why it's so significant. Years ago, when we launched Public, we thought sharing workbooks publicly would change the way people see and understand data. 1/ https://twitter.com/tableaupublic/status/1263877876908036096
We hoped the ability to download others' work would facilitate a culture of mutual inspiration, helping people learn and build on each others' work. 2/
And in fact, for years, pro advice was to reverse engineer workbooks to learn @tableau, and this is exactly how a lot of early authors learned to master the platform. Unspoken etiquette was to be as generous as those you learned from, and keep vizzes downloadable for others. 3/
Fast forward. Community projects like #MakeoverMonday and #workoutwednesday turbo-charged the ability to learn from others. These projects were a huge step forward for the practice of #dataviz. 4/
And the automatic attribution of any saved versions to the original author help build the chain of mutual inspiration, while giving props to the person who created the viz. 6/
There's more to come on the road of authoring in the web. Stay tuned! And meanwhile, we’ll be watching and listening closely to see how things evolve in the always amazing #datafam. 7/
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