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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.

Tableau uses Clearwater Analytics to automate the process of aggregating its investment data. Learn to improve how you manage investments, while increasing trust that your business’s portfolio is being managed judiciously.

If you are struggling to understand how to use Calculations in Tableau, you are not alone. In this blog post, Tableau Zen Master Yvan Fornes shares his methodology for understanding how to combine the different calculation types.

We reached out to Tableau Community members across different industries and roles to find out how attending Tableau Conference (TC) is valuable, educational, and inspiring to them. These industry peers share their aha moments, major takeaways, special connections, and solutions learned at Tableau Conference.

During August’s Developer Sprint Demos, we introduced Sandboxed Extensions, a new type of locked-down extension that can’t send data outside of Tableau.Michael Kovner, senior product manager, brought us up-to-date by explaining why Sandboxed Extensions was developed.

In 1965, designer, Massimo Vignelli and Bob Noorda were tasked with redesigning New York's newly formed subway system. Allen Hillery explains how data visualization practitioners can learn from the successes and downfalls of this project—like details around audience and design principles including color, shapes, and lines.

A first step towards the cloud can feel like a huge leap. And too often, time and energy are spent wondering, “How do I set this up correctly?” instead of focusing on evaluating whether or not your solution is the right one. Tableau believes in offering flexibility, simplifying deployments, and helping our customers spend their time where it matters most. We’re excited to announce that we’ve created a new solution to help users get up and running in the cloud faster than ever.

Welcome to the Best of the Tableau Web for July 2019. The single most important thing to do when starting a blog: write about what makes you excited. Don’t write to try and be someone you’re not. In this diverse data community, there is a place for you and your interests. As always, enjoy this month’s posts with an excellent mix of great visualization tips, data preparation tips, and articles about changing the culture in your organization.

The Healthcare Provider RCM Dashboard is designed to provide healthcare providers of all types and sizes with increased visibility and insight into three key areas of their revenue cycle. In this blog post, Sales Consultant Jared Sathaye shares key details about the dashboard.

Your resume is your first line of defense on the quest for a new job or career. If you learn to combine good design practice, the YOU factor, and carefully chosen aspects of your experience into creating a compelling interactive resume, you’ll set yourself apart from the competition. Lindsay Betzendahl shows you how!

In the example in this post, Anton explains how to configure Prep Builder to run Python scripts and show some of the cool ways to take advantage of new support for custom Python and R script execution from within Tableau Prep flows.