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Tableau Online now offers a single sign-on experience that benefits both data explorers and their IT departments. In just a few clicks, companies can configure SAML 2.0 authentication for Tableau Online. This allows for seamless embedding of visualizations and Active Directory synchronization through corporate identity providers.

If anyone could’ve imagined a thing like Tableau decades ago, it might’ve been Lee Wilkinson, Tableau's new vice president of statistics.

Often the raw values are not as important as the actual ranks. This is true in sports, politics, and any instance where final positioning is more important than the actual values. As with all chart types, showing the data in one way means a compromise. A bump chart hides the underlying raw values.

As I read On Writing Well by the late William Zinsser, it struck me that his advice for communicating well with words applies directly to the craft of communicating visually with data. His seven principles in Part I—the transaction, simplicity, clutter, style, the audience, words, and usage—could be written about visualizing data as well.

Tableau Online's new Online Sync Client is here! This highly anticipated feature will make it easier to keep your on-premise and cloud application data fresh in Tableau Online.

Throughout May, we’ve been analysing how the media used Twitter in the UK general election. I’m going to do a series of posts on my favourite charts from the project, explaining why they were useful and how they show data in unusual ways.

In honor of the new Avengers movie, we blogged about our favorite superhero-themed vizzes last week. We loved seeing how people have visualized everything, from the history of Marvel comics to the evolution of “Avengers” covers! This week, we couldn’t wait to look at the data from opening weekend itself. We were also curious to see how the release stacked up against another big event last weekend, the boxing match between Floyd Mayweather and Manny Pacquiao.

We’re excited to announce that Tableau has joined the Amazon Web Services Marketplace.