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"The Avengers: Age of Ultron" hits theaters today, and as data geeks, we’re pretty excited to see all the data it generates. Between movie reviews, social media mentions, and box office numbers, tons of data is going to be created this weekend. Of course, data about the Avengers has been available for a long time. After all, Marvel first introduced the superhero team back in 1963! So to celebrate the new release, we rounded up our all-time favorite visualizations about the Marvel universe.

I am excited to announce the release of a Tableau Server load-testing solution that our own engineering teams use internally on a daily basis. We call this tool TabJolt. Just like (now-discontinued) Jolt Soda, TabJolt can push a heavy workload onto Tableau Server to give it a jolt, so you can study how the server bends or breaks under load.

With Google BigQuery, you can store billions of rows of data in the cloud. And with Tableau, you can visualize and analyze the data in seconds without writing a single line of code. In this demonstration, we’ll log into a database of 300 million rows using Tableau.

Hey, talk Tableau to me. No, really. This data viz by Jeff Shaffer and Allan Walker takes voice commands.

March Madness marks the end to what our sports analyst Dash Davidson calls the “sports purgatory that is the weeks following the Super Bowl." To bridge the gap, Davidson curated a series of sports-related vizzes over on Tableau Public, where the entire month of March was dedicated to sports. Here are a few highlights.

Tableau's features are carefully designed to help people transform data into meaning. The easier it is to express ideas in a calculation language, the more meaning people can generate. Level of Detail (LOD) Expressions allows people to express powerful concepts using simple statements.