Discover how viz animations serve diverse use cases, spanning analysis, presentation, and data storytelling.
Explore, understand, and present your data like never before with Tableau viz animations, telling powerful and captivating data stories through dynamic visualizations. Animations elevate your data by putting it in motion, taking your work to new heights. Discover how viz animations serve diverse use cases, spanning analysis, presentation, and data storytelling.

Seamlessly transform data over time by pairing animations with the page’s shelf. Gain insights into how dimensions reorganize after sorting and use animations to guide your audience’s focus during presentations. Learn how to enable animations, unlock their full potential with expert tips, and see inspiring examples of our favorite use cases.

What makes animations essential in data visualization?

In the 1990s, experts in the field were beginning to explore the untapped analytical potential of motion. Today, we know that thoughtfully applied animations can significantly enhance understanding. As a pre-attentive visual property, motion draws attention to changes while de-emphasizing what remains constant. This holds true in Tableau as well. Without animations, alterations like adjusting a date filter result in scatterplot marks abruptly jumping to new positions, making it challenging to discern what changed and why.