8 Data Sets for Your Tableau / Data / Analytics Projects

You don’t need to start from scratch. Get a head start.

Donabel Santos
5 min readAug 25, 2021

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If you’re looking to practice your data visualization and analysis skills, here are some data resources you can consider.

Many of the data sets are fairly clean and won’t require too much cleaning/transforming. There are some though that will require you to flex your data wrangling muscles.

1. Kaggle

If you have been working in data for a while, you may have already heard of Kaggle. Kaggle is a machine learning and data science community with over a million members. The platform provides data sets, tools and competitions for its members. It has been acquired by Google in 2017 and at the time of this writing has over 50K public data sets.

Don’t worry, while Kaggle sounds like haggle, you’re not going to have to haggle for data. Once you sign up for an account, the data sets are free to use for learning. Make sure to check out competitions — you can gain not only confidence, bragging rights, but also monetary prizes.

Kaggle. Screen capture by author.

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Donabel Santos

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