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To celebrate your “data wins,” we're announcing a sweepstake where it might be your data win! (Get it? Day to = data win.) You have the chance to win a full conference pass to Tableau Conference 2019 happening in Las Vegas, November 12-15 2019.

This year, I have a goal to walk or run 1000 miles. Tracking my progress is a vital part of the fun for me. During the design the process, I asked myself several key questions, which you should also consider when developing your next dashboards. Don’t leave mobile design until the end: build for mobile as you build for desktop.

Data encryption is a critical part of data security strategies to protect sensitive data. That’s why, starting with Tableau Server 2019.3, you can now encrypt your extracts at rest.

With less than 100 days until Tableau Conference (TC19), there isn't much time left to take advantage to hear from and collaborate with data experts, and to cultivate your data community. We sat down with data experts and conference attendees, Tableau Zen Master, Simon Beaumont, and Christina Gorga, to discuss the 10 best reasons to go in a webinar.

Sean Miller shares his favorite examples of music data visualizations from the Tableau community.

Since our brains aren’t remembering things as they once did, it’s yet another challenge to us, as visual creators, to make our works memorable even against this gradient of forgetfulness, this necessity of filtering out vast rivers of content from our consciousness lest we find ourselves overwhelmed, flooded, and washed away.

So, you’ve built a Tableau dashboard extension? Awesome! But what’s the user experience like interacting with it? Is it easy to use? Is it aesthetically pleasing? Is it effective? Follow this guide to ensure that your extension provides a user-friendly experience and is delightful!

We're holding a live webinar on Wednesday, August 7 at 10:00am PDT to give you a first look at Tableau Conference 2019 sessions, trainings, and all of the ways you can make strong data skills your new superpower. We'll show you how to use the TC19 session catalog, walking you through methods to find the sessions most relevant for your skill level, role, and industry, including what's new to conference this year and opportunities to build a network of fellow data lovers.

Are you gaining the right skills to be successful in the modern workplace? Studying sets you on a path to learning hard skills—the specific technical know-how you need to do your job well.

After reviewing over 1.5k nominations from the community (tripling the total received last year) we are both honored and delighted to introduce new inductees into the Tableau Ambassador program!