Mike Klaczynski

Server admins, have we got an idea for you. To celebrate April Fools' Day, how about changing your logo on Tableau Server or your Tableau Online sites to something fun and quirky?

September was an amazing month for the Tableau blogosphere, we collected close to a hundred tips, walkthroughs, hacks, and #data14 Conference highlights. Our favorites are included in this months Best of the Tableau Web. Enjoy!

This past week we had a large team of bloggers, photographer, and social media folks working at the #data14 Social Command Center. Along with the content they were creating and covering, I was busy building dashboards to show what was happening on Twitter. You may have seen a couple being shared around the web using bit.ly links, but today I'm putting them all together in one place.

Mapping in Tableau has always been fast, easy and beautiful, but we wanted to make it even better, so for Tableau 8.2 we rebuilt everything from the ground up. The new maps include new data, a complete visual redesign, and new interactivity, all leading to a faster and more rewarding experience.

LeWeb'13 is Europe's leading yearly internet conference on innovation and entrepreneurship. This year Tableau has partnered with DataSift and Google to provide real-time social media analysis of the event.

Check out the official LeWeb social media page for live visualizations.

Tableau Server has many built in features to promote data exploration, collaboration, and security. The Data Server is arguably the most powerful of these tools but is commonly overlooked and underutilized. Answer these questions to see how the Data Server can save you time and increase productivity. • Are you struggling to manage and update many large extracts while removing duplicates? • Do you want to refresh your extracts once and automatically update your workbooks? • Do you want to provide centralized management of your metadata? The ability to author a calculation once and share it with everyone, creating a standardized definition for each field? • Are you tired of having to deploy database drivers on each users local machines? • Do you want to simplify how your users access data stored in your databases? If you found yourself replying 'yes' to any of these questions, then it’s time to unleash the Data Server.

This week we are continuing our 'New in Tableau 8' series with an example of floating dashboard content. We use the empty space around a map to place legends, quick filters and titles. Both the original by Peter Aldhous, created in version 6.0, and this 8.0 remake are based on the same data-set, patent filings per capita for major metropolitan areas in the United States.

The upcoming release of Tableau 8.0 includes an expansive Javascript API for taking viz interactivity beyond the dashboard. Clients will integrate Tableau content with custom business logic and other scriptable web parts to offer powerful new ways for users to consume rich analytic applications. For example, an analyst will be able to seamlessly integrate Tableau dashboards, visualizations and reports into their applications and portals – automatically changing and updating the Tableau content as people progress through their analytical questions.

The assorted interactions include adjusting filters, manipulating axes, drawing marks, switching workbooks and individual sheets, and extracting data - to list just a few of the programmable modifications.