TableauData is a critical component of decision making, helping businesses and organizations gain key insights and understand the implications of their decisions at a granular level. And visual analytics, in the form of interactive dashboards and visualizations, are essential tools for anyone—from students to CEOs—who needs to analyze data and tell stories with data. Public data sets are ideal resources to tap into to create data visualizations. With the information provided below, you can explore a number of free, accessible data sets and begin to create your own analyses.