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Schedule your flows with Tableau Prep Conductor to keep your data fresh on Tableau Server and Online. With this Data Management Add–On, you can ensure everyone in your organization is working off the most up-to-date-data available.

We spoke to Richard Tibbetts (Principal Product Manager for AI and former CEO of Empirical Systems) about Explain Data’s origins, including its first encounter with the Superstore data set, and some exciting possibilities for the future.

In the latest release of Tableau Prep Builder (2019.3), you can now run Python scripts from within data prep flows. This article will show how to use this capability to predict Titanic survivors.

Color is one of the easiest ways to control the style of your data visualization. A good use of color makes visuals more engaging, makes insights pop off the view, and adds some professional polish. Learn to use color in your visualizations to communicate your narrative.

When cleaning your data, you often need to filter out values you don’t need. In this blog post, Maraki Ketema shares tips and tricks for quick filtering in Tableau Prep Builder—like one-click filtering, multi-select filtering, filtering a range of values, and more.

In 1965, designer, Massimo Vignelli and Bob Noorda were tasked with redesigning New York's newly formed subway system. Allen Hillery explains how data visualization practitioners can learn from the successes and downfalls of this project—like details around audience and design principles including color, shapes, and lines.

This year, I have a goal to walk or run 1000 miles. Tracking my progress is a vital part of the fun for me. During the design the process, I asked myself several key questions, which you should also consider when developing your next dashboards. Don’t leave mobile design until the end: build for mobile as you build for desktop.

Sean Miller shares his favorite examples of music data visualizations from the Tableau community.

Have you ever considered how much thought a band gives to the songs they play in their live sets? Chris Love and Rob Radburn take a look at over 200 of the most popular artists on setlist.fm (~180,000 sets) and analyze how their sets have changed over time.

Algorithmia lets analysts go even further, extending worksheets with machine learning (ML) and allowing for the execution of Java, Node.js, Python, R, Ruby, Rust, and Scala code directly from within Tableau. In this blog, we’ll explore a concrete example to show you how to leverage Algorithmia algorithms in your Tableau workflow.

Building an information experience for comprehension and retention will take your visualizations from "not bad" to "great." Lilach Manheim and Mike Cisneros explain how you can boost your data viz design for your audiences.

You can use Tableau Prep to track your account balance history! Joshua Milligan shares an example to help spark some ideas about how unstructured data can be tackled using Tableau Prep.