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Hey, talk Tableau to me. No, really. This data viz by Jeff Shaffer and Allan Walker takes voice commands.

March Madness marks the end to what our sports analyst Dash Davidson calls the “sports purgatory that is the weeks following the Super Bowl." To bridge the gap, Davidson curated a series of sports-related vizzes over on Tableau Public, where the entire month of March was dedicated to sports. Here are a few highlights.

Tableau's features are carefully designed to help people transform data into meaning. The easier it is to express ideas in a calculation language, the more meaning people can generate. Level of Detail (LOD) Expressions allows people to express powerful concepts using simple statements.

Tableau Server 9.0 features a number of new capabilities. To support them, we’ve introduced new server processes that you’ll see on the server status page. Here's a brief overview of these updates and how they help maintain High Availability with Tableau Server.

Here in the United Kingdom where I work, we’re counting down until the general election on May 8. It’s a fascinating election as our nation comes to grips with coalition politics. The extent to which the media controls the outcomes of elections is important and yet hard to quantify. This has become harder since the advent of social media. This year’s event is being called the social media election, and diverse organisations such as the BBC and Buzzfeed will be covering it using their own distinct styles. What does the data tell us?

When a company grows as fast as Tableau, sometimes the unexpected happens. This is one of those times. Recently we were alerted to the fact that video of a confidential Tableau product marketing meeting was uploaded to YouTube. We’ve never had a leak like this before—and we took some time to decide the most “Tableau” way of handling it.