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

Since our brains aren’t remembering things as they once did, it’s yet another challenge to us, as visual creators, to make our works memorable even against this gradient of forgetfulness, this necessity of filtering out vast rivers of content from our consciousness lest we find ourselves overwhelmed, flooded, and washed away.

So, you’ve built a Tableau dashboard extension? Awesome! But what’s the user experience like interacting with it? Is it easy to use? Is it aesthetically pleasing? Is it effective? Follow this guide to ensure that your extension provides a user-friendly experience and is delightful!

We're holding a live webinar on Wednesday, August 7 at 10:00am PDT to give you a first look at Tableau Conference 2019 sessions, trainings, and all of the ways you can make strong data skills your new superpower. We'll show you how to use the TC19 session catalog, walking you through methods to find the sessions most relevant for your skill level, role, and industry, including what's new to conference this year and opportunities to build a network of fellow data lovers.

Are you gaining the right skills to be successful in the modern workplace? Studying sets you on a path to learning hard skills—the specific technical know-how you need to do your job well.

After reviewing over 1.5k nominations from the community (tripling the total received last year) we are both honored and delighted to introduce new inductees into the Tableau Ambassador program!

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.

This month, Andy Cotgreave highlights the coders and developers who are blogging about inventive ways to extend the Tableau platform.