Telling Forest Stories with Tableau

Tableau
Data viz
Data gathering
Personal project
Author

Ana Valladares

Published

September 12, 2024

Exploring Data Storytelling, I chose to work with data from Madagascar—the country where I currently live. One of the most alarming environmental issues here is deforestation, which is not just a matter of numbers but a threat to biodiversity, communities, and the future of the island.

As part of a Tableau course (available at Coursera, there is a lot of options there actually…), I built interactive dashboards to visualize tree cover loss across time and regions.

The goal: raise awareness of Madagascar’s dramatic forest loss.

This project showed me how data visualization can tell stories that move beyond statistics—inviting reflection, and hopefully, inspiring action.