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Stories have impact, create memories, and lead a viewer down a chosen path. Matt Francis explained when to use data stories in his TC On Tour session in London. 

The Google I/O announcement everyone is buzzing about is their new data pipeline service. Google Cloud Dataflow means ingesting, transforming, and analyzing big data in the cloud just got a lot easier. Even better, Tableau users already leveraging the power of Google BigQuery will be able to take full advantage of Dataflow to ease their heavy data lifting headaches.

Sydney, The Hague, Munich are behind us. The final stop of Tableau Conference on Tour is ahead: are you coming to London on 7-9 July? We thought we’d look back at the first three On Tour events and share some of the key benefits of attending these conferences.

It's official-- Tableau Desktop is on the Mac! Tableau Desktop for the Mac has the look and feel you expect from a native Mac application. It even has support for high-resolution displays like the Mac Retina display. It's part of Tableau 8.2, the newest release of Tableau, which also includes a new way to tell stories with data and a raft of other features.

V = T + I + E + C Does the above equation contain all you need to know about measuring the success of your visualization? John Stasko thinks so, and he explained why in his keynote at EuroVis 2014, in Swansea, last week.

Do you know a passionate Tableau evangelist? Are they constantly seeking to help others visualize their data? They are a potential Tableau Zen Master. Throughout June, we are seeking your nominations for the 2014 Zen Masters.

Data blending is the ability to bring data from multiple data sources into one Tableau view, without the need for any special coding. Do you do data blending? Or wish you knew more about it? Here are 9 tips from one of our Tableau sessions delivered at the Tableau Conference in Munich this week.

At Tableau we’re obsessed with data. Connecting to data, analyzing data, and communicating with data. Tableau 8.2 breaks new ground in communicating with data with the introduction of Story Points.

Designing effective dashboards is a challenge of design, usability, and efficient insight. There are many sources of inspiration. At our Conference on Tour in The Hague, Steffen Mueller (@iluvanalytics) from HERE built a NASDAQ-inspired dashboard of net promoter scores.

You may not have heard of GlobalCollect but you probably have used their services. They control web-based payments for many major services across the world. If you’ve ever bought something online it’s likely you’ve used GlobalCollect.

A highlight of tips, tricks, and inspiration for Tableau and data visualization.

A highlight of tips, tricks, and inspiration for Tableau and data visualization.