You're reading from Tableau 10 Business Intelligence Cookbook
Here are some of the sample data sets from Tableau Public's Resources page (https://public.tableau.com/s/resources):
Top Baby Names in the US
Cat vs Dog Popularity in the US
Startup Venture Funding
Global Burden of Disease
Global Sport Finances
Summer Olympics Medalist Dataset
NFL stats, 1999-2013
Hollywood's Most Profitable Stories
Significant Volcanic Eruptions
Global Active Archive of Large Flood Events
Magnitude 6+ Earthquakes
Now let us look at ample data sets from other resources:
New York Open Data – Restaurant Inspections: https://data.cityofnewyork.us/Health/DOHMH-New-York-City-Restaurant-Inspection-Results/xx67-kt59/data
NBA Basketball Data Set 2009: http://www.databasebasketball.com/stats_download.htm
Open Flights: http://openflights.org/data.html
Our Airports: http://ourairports.com/data/
Spatineo: http://directory.spatineo.com/
Gapminder: https://www.gapminder.org/data/
BC Stats Population Projection: http://www.bcstats.gov.bc.ca/StatisticsBySubject/Demography/PopulationProjections.aspx
World Bank – World Development Indicators: http://data.worldbank.org/data-catalog/world-development-indicators
City of Vancouver Open Data: http://vancouver.ca/your-government/open-data-catalogue.aspx
Canada Open Data: http://open.canada.ca/en
National Water Quality Monitoring Council – Water Quality Data: http://www.waterqualitydata.us/portal/
World Health Organization: http://apps.who.int/gho/data/node.home
Here are some useful articles and white papers (in no particular order). This is just a partial list of many useful articles about Tableau and visualization in general:
Five things I wish I knew about Tableau when I started (This is an older article, but still useful and relevant to the current version.): http://bit.ly/5things-tableau
Top 10 Tableau Table Calculations: http://bit.ly/top10tablecalcs
Understanding Level of Detail Expressions: http://bit.ly/UnderstandingLOD
Top 15 LOD Expressions http://bit.ly/top15LOD
Tableau and R Integration http://bit.ly/tableau-and-r
Visual Analysis Guide Book http://bit.ly/vaguidebook
Tableau Drive Manual http://bit.ly/tableaudrivemanual
Designing Efficient Workbooks http://bit.ly/efficientworkbooks
A Guide to Creating Dashboards People Love to Use by Juice Analytics bit.ly/DashboardsPeopleLoveToUse
Design Tips for Non-Designers by Juice Analytics http://bit.ly/designtipsfornondesigners
Designing Effective Tables and Graphs by Stephen Few http://bit.ly/stephenfew-effectivechart
Tapping the Power of Visual Perception by Stephen Few http://bit.ly/stephenfew-visualperception
Bullet Graph Design Specification by Stephen Few https://www.perceptualedge.com/articles/misc/Bullet_Graph_Design_Spec.pdf
Implementing Tableau Server: Top 10 Pitfalls http://bit.ly/tableauserver-top10pitfalls
These are some great blogs and sites on visual analytics and Tableau (in no particular order). This is by no means an exhaustive list of valuable blogs and resources about visualization and Tableau:
The Information Lab blog: http://www.theinformationlab.co.uk/category/blog/
Interworks blog: https://www.interworks.com/blog
DataBlick blog: http://datablick.com/blog/
Perceptual Edge by Stephen Few: https://www.perceptualedge.com/
Vizwiz by Andy Kriebel: http://www.vizwiz.com/
Health Intelligence by Ramon Martinez: http://www.publichealthintelligence.org/
VizPainter by Joshua Milligan: http://vizpainter.com/
Data Blender by Alan Eldridge: https://blog.databender.net
Tableau Picasso by George Gorczynski: http://tableaupicasso.com/
Drawing with Numbers by Jonathan Drummey: http://drawingwithnumbers.artisart.org/
Vizcandy by Kelly Martin: http://www.vizcandy.ca/
Tableau Zen by Mark Jackson: http://ugamarkj.blogspot.ca/
Data Plus Science by Jeffrey Shaffer: https://www.dataplusscience.com/
Data Revelations by Steve Wexler: http://www.datarevelations.com/blog-page
Jewel Loree: http://www.jewelloree.com/
Bora Beran: https://boraberan.wordpress.com/
VizNinja by Paul Banoub: https://vizninja.com/
Data Boss by Tamás Földi: http://databoss.starschema.net/
Paint by Numbers by Peter Gilks: http://paintbynumbersblog.blogspot.ca/
Ryan Sleeper: http://www.ryansleeper.com/content/