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Time to reevaluate how you measure the value of your analytics. Establishing the right metrics to track value will not only help you prove your analytics investment, but identify areas to focus attention and increase its value.

We're sharing part two of our four-part blog series, Better Government with Data Analytics. Dive deeper in part two as we share three focus areas to help you drive a higher level of data literacy.

Check out what’s new from Tableau Prep Builder. Bulk cleaning operations, connections highlighting and better Tableau Server compatibility.

By leveraging Tableau and Alation together, business analysts at MercadoLibre can start an analysis with a query in Alation and seamlessly continue the analysis in Tableau. The integrated solution gives MercadoLibre users the confidence to find data they need for analysis—even if it lives outside Tableau Server—and understand how to best apply it to their analysis.

Welcome to Part One of our four-part blog series, Better Government with Data Analytics. This series is for state, local, and education data rock stars who are interested in gaining deeper insights about how to leverage data to improve results, and build a culture of analytics within their organizations.

A chat with map co-creator Joshua Jelly-Schapiro about the process of creating “City of Women” and how maps help us see places in new ways.

A variety of finance experts took the stage at Tableau Conference 2019 (TC19) to address challenges facing finance analytics. Read on for key takeaways from these finance-focused sessions and apply them in your own organizations. Bookmark these sessions, watch (and re-watch) them throughout the year.

With entries from 13 countries for our 2nd Round of our Student Viz Assignment Contest, it wasn't an easy decision to pick a winner! From entries across the world including George Mason University (US), Nanyang Technological University (SG), The University of Waterloo (CA) and EDHEC (FR), we picked three winning vizzes. Our winners were chosen based on their creativity, analytical depth, beauty and design, and their overall impact on the judges. Our winners will receive some coveted Tableau swag from us for their brilliant work! So without further ado, the winners for our Round 2 2019 Student Viz Assignment Contest are:

Nominations for Zen Masters are open! We want to hear from you, we invite you to share with us stories of people who inspire and guide you.

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.

Using software from Tableau the Georgia Tech has improved the way they respond to allegations of fraud and abuse through a data-driven approach. In the following interview, Georgia Tech’s Chief Audit Executive, Phil Hurd, explains more about the program.

Truly modern enterprises cultivate what’s increasingly being described as data culture. This begins with internal communities and user groups connected by common goals, practices, and social ties. Here's how to nurture these communities in your organization.