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In a recent webinar with our team and Skyler Johnson, Data Visualization Designer at Spotify, we shared how you can dig into the data behind Spotify’s Top 200 and Viral 50 charts. Read this blog post to learn how to get started with Spotify data and create a basic dashboard to understand top tracks and artists by country.

Welcome to the Best of the Tableau Web! To keep you going for another month, here are more tips, tricks, and inspiration.

Looking for data viz resources? Use this list to explore best practices, get inspired by data viz podcasts, and dig into words of wisdom from the Tableau community.

Every audience’s interaction with an information experience begins with choice. Zen Masters, Lilach and Mike explore what factors influence choice.

Announcing Data + Music by Tableau, a Tableau community project that highlights the connections between data and the music we love through a series of data visualizations.

Guest bloggers Lilach Manheim and Mike Cisneros explain four goals behind a dataviz design philosophy that will help you create more meaningful information experiences and outcomes.

To prepare for a pivot to a self-service analytics model and to improve audit and risk analytics functions, we advocate that exploratory, visual data analytics be incorporated into your internal audit planning, fieldwork, and reporting. Having regular, repeatable—and automated—refreshes of your entire data population allows for continuous auditing and monitoring. In this blog, we'll share with you how to enhance query design and save time by automating recurring risk and audit steps for all of your data. We also describe the skills your audit team needs to execute effectively on these process changes. Read on to learn why incorporating data analytics and data-driven alerts throughout your audit functions, can advance your audit department's performance.

With Tableau's automatic layouts in the 2019.1 release, now every new dashboard includes a mobile layout for a phone or tablet. But there's even more ways to optimize those dashboards for your audience. Here's tips from Zen Master, Bridget Cogley.

Learn why self-service data prep is important for individual analysts and organizations, along with some further lessons learned from our time with Preppin’ Data.

Parameter actions, available in Tableau 2019.2 (now in beta), empower all Tableau users to visually change a parameter’s value. This opens up even more powerful possibilities to build meaningful visualizations and add interactivity to your work.

Best thing about Tableau Conference Europe? Finding and learning from people just like you! Attend sessions from Tableau Zen Masters and customers, network with peers at meetups, and bring back knowledge from the front lines to apply to your own work.

This post explores Tableau’s approach to the scenarios analysts and data scientists work with every day, and provides you with resources to conduct sophisticated data analysis.