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Southwest started with just a handful of Tableau Desktop licenses, but that number quickly grew. “As soon as we began sharing our dashboards, word began to spread,” says Tom Laney, a Business Consultant in the Data Science Center. Other teams began calling, asking about this tool that would not only connect to multiple data sources but also allow people to explore the data for themselves in real-time.

“Las habilidades necesarias para mostrar información de la manera más eficaz posible no son intuitivas y dependen en gran medida de principios que deben aprenderse”, argumenta Stephen Few en su excelente libro Show Me the Numbers (Muéstreme los números). En principio, estoy de acuerdo. Pero hay un problema: algunas de estas habilidades solo pueden aprenderse con la práctica. Saber por qué un gráfico es completamente funcional no implica conocer la psicología humana ni la importancia de participar e informar. La experiencia del fracaso y del éxito, si se aprende en una etapa temprana, enseña tanto como un libro.

Lo hizo. Compró licencias de Tableau Desktop, e incluso tal vez de Tableau Server. Está impaciente por convencer a los demás. Está listo para dejar atrás el viejo proceso de BI e implementar Tableau. ¡Hurra! Pero ¿por dónde empieza?

What do Tableau fanatics do during the holiday season? Some create holiday calendars in Tableau. Others write Christmas poems about Tableau! This week, Tableau customer Amanda Meetze Baines sent us a lovely Christmas poem titled "Tableau before Christmas."

Starting in September, students could submit their favorite homework assignment along with details of their school using our online form. We were delighted to receive over 100 submissions, and without further ado, here are the winners.

When we see great stories of customers leveraging powerful tools and best practices to drive adoption of analytics at scale, it’s something we like to highlight to our community and help share those learnings. GoDaddy is doing just that with Tableau and our data cataloguing partner, Alation.

What a year it’s been for data viz! All throughout the year, we’ve been amazed by the creativity we’ve seen from you, the Tableau community. Not only have you told a wide range of data stories, but you’ve done so in innovative ways that we never would have imagined.

It’s hard to believe a decade has passed since the creation of the Hadoop subproject. Since that time, we’ve seen big data rise and grow to include hundreds of additional data and analytics projects that then poured even more fuel on the proverbial big-data fire.