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As COVID-19 has progressed through the U.S. and states have implemented stay-at-home orders, nearly everyone’s lives have been disrupted. For schools and the kids who attend them, these changes have been particularly challenging. Instead of sitting with each other in classrooms, students are attending courses remotely, and interacting even more over screens than in real life. Without the usual face-to-face interactions, teachers are struggling to figure out how to assess student engagement and progress, and make sure their kids are feeling supported.

In every case, a key to controlling and eventually eliminating the spread of these diseases comes down to two very simple ideas: Trace every possible contact with infected individuals, and keep information moving faster than the disease.

Rickey Gates’ newest adventure. Rickey Gates is one of the most recognized extreme runners in the world. For his Every Single Street project, he ran every single street in San Francisco. Data viz expert Yvan Fornes helped him visualize all of his running routes—over 1,317 miles in 46 days—in Tableau.

In the March 2020 release of Tableau Prep, explore faster cleaning operations for date fields, support for the Cloudera Impala connector, and persistent server login so you don't have to sign in every time you open Tableau Prep Builder.

On the International Day of Persons with Disabilities, Nick Hara was given two minutes to advocate for people with disabilities using data visualization. In this post, Nick shares the process behind the dashboard along with his learnings.

We've highlighted a few sessions with tips and best practices you can begin using today to optimize sales tools, speed up and simplify territory creation, and make sales data relevant to your entire organization. Discover key takeaways with links to the recording for you to watch and share with your teammates.

There's no silver bullet for creating and nurturing a Data Culture. Ravi Mistry from The Information Lab breaks down simple ways to uplift your analysts as champions of Data Culture through things like discovery processes, community building, and KPI tracking.

Tableau Zen Master Joshua Milligan walks you through how he used Tableau Prep 2019.4 to connect directly to Nest thermostat data he captured in Google sheets.

Check out how you can reuse flows in Tableau Prep Builder to help clean up multiple data sets that have similar patterns—saving you repetitive and unnecessary work.

We launched role-based learning as part of Tableau eLearning. Consisting of 12 specialized learning paths aligned to Tableau roles across the organization, each role is designed to accelerate the proficiency of your people quickly and effectively.

Tableau Visionary Ryan Sleeper shares his tips for creating mobile-first dashboards in Tableau, including how to: determine if you should consider a mobile-first design, scroll multiple sheets at once and eliminate default scroll bars completely, leverage tooltips, and more.

Here are 10 powerful examples of Tableau's table calculations. Most require writing a simple formula of some kind. Each example contains a live example and instructions in a tabbed view. You can download any workbook for a deeper look.