If you’re planning to start creating your own interactive data visualizations, one of the most popular and powerful tools available out there – for free – it’s Tableau Public. For those who are not familiar with the company, Tableau provides Business Intelligence and Analytics solutions for a wide range of clients across the globe.

We post on a regular basis visualizations created with Tableau, especially on our Interactive Inspiration column, every Friday, and we thought it was time to take a closer look at the real possibilities of this tool, going through some of the examples we gathered across the years.

So, without further ado, here’s a list of 25 amazing visualizations created with Tableau. Click through the images to see the full interactive versions.

IED Explosions in Iraq | Mark Bulling

The Great Divide | DataBlick

Mapping the Canberra Wasp Menace | Canberra Times

US Tornadoes 1950 to 2011 | Data Driven Consulting

Privately owned islands around the world | The Guardian

How common is your birthday? | VizWiz

Where’s the Loot? | Diablo Inc Gamers

Visualising the Wikileak’s war logs | Andy Kirk

Blackjack in Vegas | Data Driven

What each job gets paid | The Guardian

Cola Wars! | Viz Wiz

The History Of US Unemployment By State | Joe Mako

Education Across the World | Ross Perez

Which Country Uses the Most Oil? | Data Driven Consulting

Global military spending | The Guardian

Tragedy, Death and Rock ‘n Roll | Vizual Encounters

Black Friday. Now bigger than Thanksgiving | Daniel Hom

Thanks to its huge range of possibilities and relative easiness of learning, Tableau’s has become popular in many non-English speaking countries. Here are some examples created by Argentinian newspaper La Nación, one of the South American media outlets that produces regularly visualizations for its website:

International Credit Risk Ratings | La Nácion

Partial screen capture of the interactive infographic created with Tableau, International Credit Risk Ratings

Subsidies for bus transportation | La Nácion

Olympic Games | La Nácion

And from our friends at Visual Loop Brasil, a couple of examples of the use of Tableau by the online version of the popular Brazilian newspaper, O Globo.

Best schools in Brazil 2011 | O Globo

Religion in Brazil | O Globo

Mensalão scandal: the money trail | O Globo

Supermarket Pricing in Brazil | O Globo

The taste of the Food Industry | O Globo

You can explore more examples of Tableau’s potential for creating interactive data visualizations following the Viz of the Day gallery, and the company blog is also quite interesting. Of course, if you create a data visualization using this tool, gives us a notice on Twitter or Facebook, we’d be happy to feature it!