For you Tablaeu users that are interested in stretching Tableau’s data mapping capability, Joe Mako shared this excellent piece from Clearly and Simply which was written by a very smart lady from Republic of Lithuania You will find sample Tableau packaged workbooks in the post.

Giedre’s post provides (3) work-arounds which allow Tableau to display chloropleth map shapes. You can find some other nice work on Giedre’s blog.