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Who would have thought that a phone call to Andy Kriebel in November 2015 would lead to nearly 500 people creating over 3,000 visualizations in one year? That’s the humbling, amazing, inspiring, surprising, rewarding, astonishing result of Makeover Monday.

Hosted services, from SaaS to IaaS, now account for more than $200 billion in global revenue.

Tableau has made it possible to move from a situation in which I couldn't analyse or visualize most of the open data available. Nowadays, I spend a significant part of my spare time visualizing data with Tableau.

Over the last few years, we’ve watched data transform organizations of all types and sizes. Companies that began harnessing the power of their data gained a competitive edge and were able to innovate faster. What's in store for next year? Here are 10 trend we expect to see in 2017.

Got the winter blues? We’ve got a cure in the form of Tableau 10.2 beta! Tableau 10.2 comes with a host of new features for data rockstars and IT champions alike. Our new features for data prep and analysis are designed to help you do more with your data. And our accessibility features and added web-authoring power will help enterprises scale. Here's a sneak peek at some of the hottest features.

Happy holidays! 'Tis the season to be jolly. To help you all get into the festive mood, we'd like to share three Tableau-made holiday calendars.

Scribbling is especially valuable when it comes to data analysis. Simply put, the goal of analyzing data is to find insights and communicate them in an optimal, engaging way. But you don’t reach this goal by first deciding which chart types you want and then adding the data. Saying something like “I will start with a bar chart” and adding data to it is the equivalent of trying to create a masterpiece with a paint-by-numbers set.

As a company invested in increasing data literacy in the world, we decided to look at how our higher-education system is preparing students to work with data. The Tableau team researched how more than 7,000 American universities are approaching analytics education. The result is our new report, “The State of Data Education in 2016.”

Today is the last day of AWS re:Invent, and it marks the end of an exciting week full of learning and new technology.