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We love data visualisation competitions. Inspired by Facebook and Emily Kund's efforts, Mike Evans has created VizWars, a data visualisation event in Irvine, California, on February 11th. We recommend you go along and join him for VW1!

Welcome to the final 2013 Best of Tableau Web, looking back at December's blogging content. For those of you who aren't yet blogging, I hope they inspire you to start.

Working with Survey data is notoriously tricky. Different answer types, especially Likert scales, as well as free-form answers make the data dense. Now try to cut it by demographics and it gets even harder. For those reasons, many people who collect survey data fail to get the understanding of it that they hoped for. A new whitepaper by Steve Wexler offers a path to insight.

Allergan, a multi-specialty healthcare company with operations around the globe, employs more than 11,000 people worldwide. Joe Madigan is the Director of Customer Services in the EMEA region—Europe, the Middle East, and Asia. With so much ground to cover, he’s got a lot of data. In 2009, each of the 12 customer service sites in the EMEA region was using its own contact center technology—which caused data inefficiencies. In this interview, Madigan explains how his team went from 1 Tableau Desktop license to 20—and how that fostered a healthy environment for data and finances.

A highlight of tips, tricks, and inspiration for Tableau and data visualization.

In this 2nd in a series of posts about the upcoming 8.1 release, I get to introduce one of the most exciting new features in Tableau 8.1: R integration. R has been a very popular language among statisticians but in the past few years, it has become the language of choice for a much broader group of data enthusiasts.

A highlight of tips, tricks, and inspiration for Tableau and data visualization.

This is the first in a series of blog posts on the Tableau 8.1 release. With every release we try to provide features that help people answer more questions. Tableau 8.1 is now in beta with a host of new analytical capabilities, from boxplots to one-click percentiles and ranking.

'Easy Empty Extracts' Sounds like a kids' tongue-twister. But it's actually a hot Tableau tip, courtesy of our very own Ryan Stryker, Sr Business Consultant, Tableau Professional Services. Thanks, Ryan! Extracts are not a hard sell; the performance gains we see through the local materialisation of data views are usually staggering. And Tableau Server gives us a handy platform for auto-magically refreshing it all. For large extracts, though, it can be quite time-consuming to create a desktop version before publishing to the server. Understandably, customers often ask if there’s a way to “just have Server do it”. Of course there is.

A highlight of tips, tricks, and inspiration for Tableau and data visualization.

Ever wished you could easily share analytics with your colleagues? Ever wanted to collaborate on a dashboard with a customer or partner? Or wish you could access and work securely with data on your tablet, without having to VPN into your corporate network? But you couldn’t. Or you could, but didn’t want to download software or spin up an IT project. If so, then today is a big day. Today we’re announcing Tableau Online, a hosted version of Tableau Server in the cloud. It’s the fastest way to get up and running with a complete business intelligence platform. We take care of the infrastructure, you share analytics. It’s that easy.

A highlight of tips, tricks, and inspiration for Tableau and data visualization.