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Tableau was named a leader for the fifth straight year in the 2017 Gartner Magic Quadrant for BI and Analytics. But we couldn’t do it without you, the amazing leaders in our community. So we asked you to share the data leaders who inspire you, day in and day out. And we were blown away by your responses!

I recently found an article showcasing 2016 in charts, and I really liked the slope charts with the area shaded between the two categories being compared. I found this to be a really cool technique for making a point and telling the story. I wanted to see if I could recreate this in Tableau, so here's how it's done. I'm using the Superstore data in this example.

This is, without question, the most controversial chart type that I present. I almost saved it for last, lest you be offended by the subject matter and decide not to check out the rest of the posts in the series. But I actually get made fun of internally for how much I like this chart, so I’ve worked up a bit of bravery when broaching the subject of this one.

With Tableau 10.2, you can create, publish, and embed accessible vizzes. We’ve also included support for screen readers, braille keyboards, and keyboard-only navigation.

Even if you’re not answering a specific question, you need to help the reader. You need to drive him to insights. To do so, follow these four recommendations.

“I just don't want to be one of those guys that's in his office until twelve o'clock at night worrying about the WENUS.”

The folks who make up the 211 Tableau User Groups around the world know the value of communities working together to help each other. So when we teamed up with the Tableau Foundation on the latest User Group Viz Contest, we put that idea at the heart of the competition.

And we’re thrilled to share we’ve reached a milestone: Tableau now has 60 instant connectors. You just click, enter your credentials—no complicated programming needed—and on to analyzing all that data!

Have you ever noticed that when you go to different places in the Tableau community, certain people continue to pop up, always answering questions, posting interesting vizzes, or sharing relevant content?

Learn about TabPy, which makes it possible to use Python scripts in Tableau calculated fields. When you pair Python’s machine-learning capabilities with the power of Tableau, you can rapidly develop advanced-analytics applications that can aid in various business tasks.

Over 150 students gathered in Singapore for a fierce data-viz competition, determined to win the top spot and proud bragging rights. To emerge victorious, they’d have to tell the best data story using Tableau. But there was a catch: None of the teams had ever used Tableau. But that didn’t faze the secondary-school and junior-college students who entered the National Infocomm Competition (NIC) Face-off | Data Analytics Competition. The event, hosted in partnership with the Infocomm Media Development Authority (IMDA), recently came to an exciting close.

Over the past few releases, we’ve invested heavily in data prep, making it easier to connect Tableau to your data and get to your analysis faster. With Tableau 10.2, we’re enhancing some of our existing functionality. We’re extending features like union to work with more connectors. We’re also improving our date recognition capabilities.