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VizAlerts is a free-to-use-as-is, open-source tool that works a lot like subscriptions do. Subscribe to your viz on a schedule, and if there’s any data in your view when it runs, you get an email. If there isn’t, you don’t. Conditional subscriptions, rule-based alerts, push notifications, report bursting—VizAlerts can do it all on Tableau Server. You can create conditions in your alerts simply by filtering out what you don’t want to know about.

WDCs can be used for more than just fetching data. Because it’s a web-based technology, you can use WDCs to trigger external processes such as ETL workflows.

We’re thrilled to bring you one of our most requested features of all time. In Tableau 10, you can filter across multiple data sources!

I recently saw an article posted by Alberto Cairo in which someone had built a map of Scotland using tile maps built of Sankey diagrams. I thought it was pretty cool, so I wanted to be able to do something similar in Tableau.

I used to think iterating was overrated, always striving to produce the goods as soon as possible with as few tries as possible. That was until I started to participate in Makeover Monday, an initiative run by Andy Kriebel and Andy Cotgreave.

Learn how to set schedules, manage refresh tasks, and ensure your end users are always seeing the most up-to-date data in Tableau Online.

Open Tableau 10, and you’ll notice that things look a bit different. That’s because we’ve reimagined the entire interface to help you see and understand your data even faster and easier.

You already know that using visualizations to communicate data is fast, easy, and efficient (pictures are so much easier to interpret than a crosstab full of numbers!). But you might be wondering how to communicate with your data even faster. Let’s talk about data—specifically visualizing your data in a way that unveils insight faster.

Let me show you how to marry two data tools, Tableau and Google Trends. Why? Because you might want to quickly check how certain categories in your data have fared in search over time relative to one another.

How many of the companies out there are truly innovative? At times the concept of innovation sounds a lot like teenage sex—everyone is talking about it, only a few are doing it, and even fewer are doing it right. I went looking for attributes that make companies truly innovative.

I have no idea how long you've been able to do this, but it is something I recently figured out. For a long time, it has frustrated me that there is no "select/deselect all" button on the action dialogs in Tableau.