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For Makeover Monday, I wanted to tell the story of how Facebook is making an effort to make clean and renewable power its primary source of energy. I wanted to be able to sort the stacked bars by energy usage percentage by year. Here's how it's done.

You already know that Tableau Server is a powerful collaboration platform. It lets you easily share and distribute the workbooks and dashboards you create in Tableau Desktop. Because people across your organization depend on Tableau Server, it’s essential to keep it performant and scalable. Follow these five tips to improve the performance of your Tableau Server, streamline your admin tasks, and make sure your investment is ready to scale.

Hot on the heels of Tableau 10, we are excited to launch the Tableau 10.1 beta! Tableau 10.1 includes new connectors and improved visual analytics capabilities to help you analyze your data even faster. For the enterprise, we’ve added big extensibility enhancements and more tools for server admins.

Our new developer APIs are not quite as obvious as some Tableau 10 features, but they enable some pretty cool product integrations that we think you’ll like! In this post, I’m going to talk about an integration that enables something called natural language generation (NLG) which can extend the impact of your Tableau visualizations.

The release of Tableau 10 was the most community-driven release in Tableau history. From the Tableau 10 Virtual User Group to the Tableau Torch Relay, to Tableau 10 Live, you, our amazing community, have been with us every step of the way. When Tableau 10 launched, we asked you to share the stories of your own Tableau journey. Here are some of your stories and #Tableau10 moments as curated by Tableau Social Media Ambassadors.

The Tableau Torch Relay has come to a close, and man, what a journey it was! From Seattle to New York and across the Atlantic, the torch made 10 stops in all, and ended its journey with a wrap party in London. And three of the torchbearers were there to celebrate with the London Tableau community.

Throughout this series, we've been exploring admission rates at the University of California in Berkeley. In 1973, the overall graduate-school admission rates for men and women appeared to be biased toward men. But when looked at in more detail, the trend shifted the other direction. In four of the six largest departments, there were proportionately more women admitted than men.

Now that you know what a Marimekko chart is and when it’s most useful, it’s now time to learn how to build it in Tableau.