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On January 9th, we launched the Tableau 9.0 beta program. Over the past two weeks, we've seen an outpouring of blog posts, tutorials, and helpful feedback from the community. Now, we're inviting you to share those thoughts and creations as part of a social media contest! Overwhelmingly, one of the most talked-about new features has been Level of Detail (LOD) expressions. What are LOD expressions? As Alan Eldridge puts it, they "allow you to directly define the level of detail at which a calculation should be performed." That means they give you much greater control over how your data is aggregated. LOD expressions are one way to bring your data to a whole new level (get it?) in version 9. However, the possibilities don't end there. There are a number of other features that are enabling greater data acrobatics as well.

Create powerful views of your Tableau Server usage to get more out of your deployment. It’s business intelligence on business intelligence— “Bi on BI.”

We are pleased to announce a new connector for Amazon Elastic MapReduce (EMR) as part of our 8.3.2 maintenance release.

Bill Inmon is known by many as the Father of Data Warehousing. He pioneered the concept with his 1992 book 'Building the Data Warehouse' and later went on to do research in unstructured data. In 2003, he founded Forest Rim Technology, which builds databases out of textual data. David Baudrez is the Head of Business Insight for Cisco Commercial in EMEA. A global IT leader, Cisco provides products and services that help people communicate all around the world. Samit Yadav is the Senior Technology and Operations Director at PharmaSecure, a software and technology company that's working towards improving global public health. Bill, David, and Samit are all Tableau customers who we recently got to interview. We enjoyed hearing what they're doing with data and technology, and are excited to share their stories with you!

The closing installment of 2014's Best of the Tableau Web series includes tools to help you dashboard better, a piece on what Tableau is NOT, and everything in between. Read on for your monthly dose of Tableau tips, tricks, and chatter from around the web.

In the world of healthcare, there are a lot of moving parts. The industry is multi-faceted, and employs people from a wide range of specialties. Michael Thurston is an analyst for the human resources (HR) department at Intermountain Healthcare. While not a traditional healthcare story, his tale is equally important. After all, his work is all about empowering a workforce—a workforce, in this case, that provides care to thousands of patients.

5 chart types you may have never used that add flair to any dashboard.

Over the past month, we've had the time of our lives interviewing Santa about how he uses Tableau. Last week, he shared his naughty-or-nice dashboard. And the week before, he told us how he monitors toy quality around the world. Now, as he enters crunch time for big day, Santa is prepared to share his third and final dashboard. And this one could be the most important of all. After all, what's the single most important part of his global operation? Being able to travel the world in a single night.