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Data doesn’t always come ready for analysis. As many of you have experienced, some data needs a lot of work before it can be sanely analyzed. The good news: Tableau 9.3 (currently in beta) offers a quick fix to that problem.

Say hello to Tableau 9.3 beta. Tableau 9.3 helps you analyze data and share findings faster, with powerful features like our Connected Desktop experience, Union, and our Snowflake Data Connector.

Hone your data-viz skills by joining the two Andys for #MakeoverMonday! Our own Andy Cotgreave and Tableau Zen Master Andy Kriebel are leading the weekly exercise. Their goal is to encourage people to cast a critical eye over the charts they see.

We here at Tableau are very proud of how easy it is to see and understand data with Tableau. Once you get started, it’s intuitive to dive deeper by adding more and more fields, formulae and calculations to a simple visualisation – until it becomes slower and slower to render. In a world where two-second response times can lose an audience, performance is crucial. Here are some tips for making your dashboards perform better.

Tableau is a playground for creativity. When a bit of knowledge meets imagination, a Tableau Jedi is born. Understanding a couple of key facts about Level of Detail Expressions can save you hours of trying to guess Google search terms for answers to tough questions.

When I first got a Fitbit, it was amazing. My daily dashboard, focusing mostly on a 10,000-step target, was incredibly motivating. Was I hitting the target? Answer: sometimes. Connecting with friends added great gamification. I began making different choices in my daily routine to take more steps. When I lost my first tracker, Fitbit sent me a free replacement. Wow! What more could I ask from this dream company? Over time, however, I stopped going back to the dashboard as often.

Blank stares, then...huh? That's what I get when I say "visual analysis." People tend to think I'm talking about making a chart. I am, but more than that, I'm talking about exploring data visually with Tableau.