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As COVID-19 has progressed through the U.S. and states have implemented stay-at-home orders, nearly everyone’s lives have been disrupted. For schools and the kids who attend them, these changes have been particularly challenging. Instead of sitting with each other in classrooms, students are attending courses remotely, and interacting even more over screens than in real life. Without the usual face-to-face interactions, teachers are struggling to figure out how to assess student engagement and progress, and make sure their kids are feeling supported.

In every case, a key to controlling and eventually eliminating the spread of these diseases comes down to two very simple ideas: Trace every possible contact with infected individuals, and keep information moving faster than the disease.

Rickey Gates’ newest adventure. Rickey Gates is one of the most recognized extreme runners in the world. For his Every Single Street project, he ran every single street in San Francisco. Data viz expert Yvan Fornes helped him visualize all of his running routes—over 1,317 miles in 46 days—in Tableau.

On the International Day of Persons with Disabilities, Nick Hara was given two minutes to advocate for people with disabilities using data visualization. In this post, Nick shares the process behind the dashboard along with his learnings.

We've highlighted a few sessions with tips and best practices you can begin using today to optimize sales tools, speed up and simplify territory creation, and make sales data relevant to your entire organization. Discover key takeaways with links to the recording for you to watch and share with your teammates.

There's no silver bullet for creating and nurturing a Data Culture. Ravi Mistry from The Information Lab breaks down simple ways to uplift your analysts as champions of Data Culture through things like discovery processes, community building, and KPI tracking.

Tableau Zen Master Joshua Milligan walks you through how he used Tableau Prep 2019.4 to connect directly to Nest thermostat data he captured in Google sheets.

Check out how you can reuse flows in Tableau Prep Builder to help clean up multiple data sets that have similar patterns—saving you repetitive and unnecessary work.

We launched role-based learning as part of Tableau eLearning. Consisting of 12 specialized learning paths aligned to Tableau roles across the organization, each role is designed to accelerate the proficiency of your people quickly and effectively.

We spoke to Richard Tibbetts (Principal Product Manager for AI and former CEO of Empirical Systems) about Explain Data’s origins, including its first encounter with the Superstore data set, and some exciting possibilities for the future.

Color is one of the easiest ways to control the style of your data visualization. A good use of color makes visuals more engaging, makes insights pop off the view, and adds some professional polish. Learn to use color in your visualizations to communicate your narrative.

When cleaning your data, you often need to filter out values you don’t need. In this blog post, Maraki Ketema shares tips and tricks for quick filtering in Tableau Prep Builder—like one-click filtering, multi-select filtering, filtering a range of values, and more.