If you’re building a career in data practicing tableau projects are one of the best ways to stand out the competition. Why? Because they show that you can do more than just crunch numbers. You can communicate data. And in most jobs, that’s the skill that gets you noticed.
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In this guide, you’ll find 20 Tableau project ideas you can actually do and then put on your resume or portfolio. Whether you’re just starting or ready to level up, there’s something here for you.
What Makes a Good Tableau Project for a Resume?
Before we jump into the ideas, here’s what makes a Tableau project resume-worthy:
- Uses real or realistic data
- Has a business question or real-world use case
- Shows interactive dashboards
- Tells a story with data not just charts
🔰 Beginner Tableau Projects (Start Here)
1. Sales Dashboard for a Retail Store
Track revenue, top products, sales by region and category. Great for showing KPIs, filters, and drill-downs. You can use Tableau’s Sample Superstore dataset for this one.
2. COVID-19 Tracker
Build a dashboard showing global or country-specific cases, deaths, and vaccination trends. Public datasets like Johns Hopkins or Our World in Data work well.
3. Netflix or IMDb Movie Analysis
Explore genres, ratings, trends in runtime or release year. Try to include interactive filters and maybe a map of filming locations. IMDb Kaggle dataset is a solid start.
4. Airbnb Price Trends
Analyze Airbnb listings by location, price, number of bedrooms, etc. Use filters, maps, and histograms. Data from Inside Airbnb is freely available.
5. Personal Finance Dashboard
Track your own expenses by category over time. Great use case for pie charts, treemaps, and timelines. You can use a Google Sheet as your data source.
💼 Tableau Projects for Business & Career Focused Roles
6. HR Attrition Analysis
Visualize employee retention, attrition trends, and department-level breakdowns. This is perfect for HR analytics roles. Dataset available on Kaggle (IBM HR Analytics).
7. E-commerce Conversion Funnel
Track customer journey from page views to purchases. Show drop-offs between stages and analyze conversion rates. You can simulate data or use GA exports.
8. Marketing Campaign Performance
Measure campaign reach, impressions, conversions, and ROI. Include time trends and channel breakdowns. Bonus if you connect to Google Ads or Facebook Ads.
9. Call Center Dashboard
Show call volumes, resolution time, agent activity, and SLA performance. Try using parameters to switch views by agent or day.
10. Customer Churn Summary
Visualize churn rates by customer segment, behavior, or location. You’re not building a model — just summarizing data with charts, heatmaps, or cohort views.
🧠 Analytical & Data Science Focused Tableau Projects
11. Stock Market Dashboard
Display daily or monthly stock prices across multiple tickers. Line graphs, volume charts, and sector filters all work here. You can use Yahoo Finance CSV exports.
12. A/B Test Summary Dashboard
Visualize results of experiments — lift %, conversion, statistical significance. Try showing test vs control group in an easy-to-understand format.
13. Sentiment Analysis on Tweets
Preprocess tweets using Python, then visualize the results in Tableau. Word clouds, bar charts for sentiment, and time trends are all useful here.
14. Supply Chain Performance
Show metrics like on-time delivery, shipping routes, delays, and supplier performance. You could even build a Gantt chart or map routes with locations.
📊 Industry Specific Tableau Projects
15. Healthcare Metrics Dashboard
Display hospital stats like bed occupancy, ER wait time, or patient demographics. Try breaking it down by department or time of day.
16. Banking & Loan Performance
Analyze loan default rates by customer demographics or credit score. A great project if you’re targeting fintech, banking, or lending companies.
17. Education & School Dashboard
Track student performance, attendance, or teacher effectiveness. Good use of stacked bars and trend lines. Works well for edtech or public policy roles.
18. Real Estate Price Trends
Use property listings to show prices by neighborhood, number of bedrooms, square footage. Mapping + trendlines + filters are your friends here.
🌍 Advanced or Creative Tableau Projects
19. Global Happiness Index
Compare countries based on happiness score, GDP, life expectancy, and social factors. Use story points to walk viewers through insights.
20. Olympics Medal Tracker
Track medal counts by country, year, and sport. Great mix of timelines, filters, and stacked bars. Dataset available on Kaggle.
21. Interactive Tableau Resume
Design a resume as a Tableau dashboard. Add filters for skills, experience, projects. Link it to your Tableau Public or portfolio site. Unique and memorable.
📎 Bonus Tips: How to Show Off Your Tableau Work
- Host dashboards on Tableau Public
- Include links in your resume or LinkedIn profile
- Write short descriptions or blog posts explaining your dashboards
- Avoid uploading incomplete or low-quality dashboards
- Build a small portfolio site if possible — Notion, GitHub Pages, or even Canva
📝 How to List Tableau Projects on a Resume
Here’s how to format it:
Example
Data Analyst Portfolio Project – Tableau
Created an interactive sales dashboard using Tableau and Superstore dataset. Tracked KPIs like revenue, top categories, and customer segments. Used filters, calculated fields, and parameters.
Use strong action verbs like: built, designed, analyzed, visualized, developed
Final Thoughts
Tableau projects are your ticket to getting noticed. They’re proof you can work with data and communicate insights — a combo every company wants.
You don’t need 50 dashboards. Just 3–5 strong, focused ones that tell a story. Clean design, real data, and purpose — that’s what stands out.
Let me know if you want help writing descriptions for your Tableau projects, or even converting this into a Notion portfolio or PDF version for your resume!
