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VisualizationsIn Tableau 9.3, start interacting with your dashboard while it loads
March 9, 2016
Ever get tired of just staring at the grey spinner on your screen, waiting for your dashboard to load? We have great news: Tableau 9.3 includes progressive-loading dashboards.
DataHow GoPro wrangles big data
March 8, 2016
We wanted to share this cool GIF that one of our customers, Josh Byrd of GoPro, recently created. The GIF illustrates how Josh makes sense of the unstructured data that GoPro deals with and lands in Hadoop for analytics.
VisualizationsTo move forward with data visualization, look backwards
March 7, 2016
Presenting information in a visual way is not a novel concept. But best practices—such as the use of the x-axis to display a trend over time, for example—were once novel ideas. Rewind to the 18th century, and a combination of creativity, passion, and teamwork led to the birth of the x-axis.
ProductTableau named top analytics tool by the 'Yelp of enterprise technology'
We live in a time when what a customers says about a business is weighted far greater than what that business says itself. Said another way: Yelp has replaced the restaurant website as the authority on where to eat.
Tableau CloudStay in the flow with Tableau Online 9.3
March 4, 2016In Tableau 9.3, it’s even easier to work across desktop, web, and mobile. We keep you in the flow so that you can focus on what really matters: your data. Let’s take a look.
Tableau CommunityThe Call for TC16 Speakers Is Now Open
Giddy up, y’all, it’s time for the rodeo! After months of waiting, the moment you’ve been looking forward to is here: TC16 customer speaker applications have officially opened. The deadline to apply is April 29, 2016.
VisualizationsSuper Bowl Viz, Tips on Custom Color Palettes among Best of the Tableau Web
March 1, 2016
Check out the tips, tricks, and ideas in this roundup of the best of the Tableau web for the month of February.
DataPublishing data sources just got easier in Tableau 9.3
February 29, 2016
Tableau 9.3 includes a new, delightful flow for publishing your data sources. We’ve added a number of features and tied them together so that everything you need is at your fingertips.
VisualizationsThe Academy Award Goes to...These Star-Studded Oscars Vizzes!
February 26, 2016
The Academy Awards are quickly approaching, and fans, myself included, are anxiously waiting to see who takes home an Oscar.
VisualizationsDesign Choices: Is the Juice Worth the Squeeze?
February 23, 2016
I often spend hours—days, sometimes—formatting a dashboard to death. The end result is mostly something I am proud of, but when I look back at some of the hoops I have jumped through, I question whether they were worth it. If something took two hours to implement and only made a tiny improvement to my dashboard, was it worth it?
