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I love podcasts. They’ve lightened my commutes to and from work for years. For people interested in data, now is a great time to be subscribing to podcasts as there are a growing number of fantastic podcasts. Here are the six podcasts I recommend to you all.

Much like cycling fans following their favorites in the Tour de France, I spent the month of July tracking the best of Tableau and data visualization content out there so that I could turn around and tell you all about it. Pretty nice of me, huh? I’ll never be a visual analysis guru and I’ll never be a professional cyclist, but it’s my absolute pleasure to deliver this roundup with a hearty dose of Tour de France terminology!

Do you know a passionate Tableau evangelist? Is that person constantly seeking to help others visualize their data? Then that person is a potential Tableau Zen Master. Throughout July, we are seeking your nominations for the 2015-2016 Zen Masters.

How many people died of heart disease last year? Is child obesity on the rise? What’s the biggest health threat Americans face? The answers to these questions can help save lives by driving improvements in care and prevention. And thanks to open data initiatives, the public has access to the numbers that hold the answers. But that’s not enough, says Ramon Martinez, a health metrics adviser with the Pan American Health Organization.

The Tableau community produced a plethora of posts in May, from a commentary on how to approach viz building that provides great time and sanity saving insights, to a detailed comparison of Tableau Server performance on EC2.

Hundreds of Tableau enthusiasts tuned in for the first European-led Tableau 9.0 Virtual User Group event earlier this month. We showed off the shiny new features of Tableau 9.0, which help data explorers stay in the flow of their work. Psychologist Mihaly Csikzentmihaly calls this flow the secret to happiness, as Tableau’s own Andy Cotgreave explained during his keynote.

In 2013, when I took on a new role as a BI analyst for a nonprofit network of charter schools in Indianapolis, I had no prior experience in business intelligence. Fast-forward to August of 2014: I received a rock in the mail. I’d become a Tableau Zen Master. At first, I thought they had made a mistake and I tried to send the rock back!

In honor of the new Avengers movie, we blogged about our favorite superhero-themed vizzes last week. We loved seeing how people have visualized everything, from the history of Marvel comics to the evolution of “Avengers” covers! This week, we couldn’t wait to look at the data from opening weekend itself. We were also curious to see how the release stacked up against another big event last weekend, the boxing match between Floyd Mayweather and Manny Pacquiao.

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.

It’s been just over a month and it’s time to close the dynamic parameters survey. Not surprisingly, we got a ton of responses and want to thank you for all your feedback! It was extremely valuable and was an insightful experience.

Thousands of Tableau enthusiasts joined us to celebrate the launch of Tableau 9.0 during our first-ever Virtual Tableau User Group event this week. The live feed from our Seattle headquarters reached Tableau User Group members across the world, many of them gathered at 25 local TUG viewing parties across the U.S. and Canada.