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Designing effective dashboards is a challenge of design, usability, and efficient insight. There are many sources of inspiration. At our Conference on Tour in The Hague, Steffen Mueller (@iluvanalytics) from HERE built a NASDAQ-inspired dashboard of net promoter scores.

You may not have heard of GlobalCollect but you probably have used their services. They control web-based payments for many major services across the world. If you’ve ever bought something online it’s likely you’ve used GlobalCollect.

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

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

Recently, one of our longtime friends, Andy Kriebel asked why we've dropped "customer" from our conference name. The answer? We welcome everyone to come and talk about data. The outcome of that is to further inspire our customers.

For those of you working with Salesforce data, we've got great news. We're releasing templates for Salesforce data. These pre-built dashboards will get you going with pipeline management, sales reports, and leads analysis.

The Progressive Group of Insurance Companies started as a small auto insurance company in Ohio in 1937. Since then, the amount of data that it stores and analyzes has grown. A lot. Like many organizations handling large amounts of information, Progressive struggled to make the story behind its data clear. We recently spoke with Data Analyst Rohan Mandelia, who explained how his team is supporting the company's sales force by "showing a better way" to understand raw numbers.

"When I went into my current job, they sat me down and said 'look, we just want you to do what you've already done, what you've learned in school with Tableau, that's exactly what we want you to do here.'" Mike Thurston is one of many students who have kickstarted their careers with the Tableau skills they built in school. Mike started using Tableau in one of his HR Analytics courses at Utah State University. Using Tableau in this course allowed him to build out a portfolio of examples of the types of analyses he had built in Tableau. Mike had been using a free copy of Tableau Desktop – which Tableau offers through the Tableau for Students program.

There is no denying that the adoption of hadoop is increasing. In fact, according to a new market report published by Transparency Market Research, the global Hadoop market is expected to reach USD 20.9 billion in 2018. We are seeing hadoop becoming a core component of customers’ data platforms. Tableau provides a number of hadoop integrations to enable business users to easily tap into the rich data stored in hadoop.

Whether you have a few digital photo albums or a massive data warehouse—or both—Seagate can help you store your digital data. A leader in the data storage industry, Seagate works with massive amounts of information every day. Says Project Manager Gina Tarammasso, "we talk in terms of terabytes—and in the not-so-distant future we're going to be shipping zettabytes of storage." And how are they able to keep innovating in this space? Well, we recently visited them in California to find out.

A few months ago we released a video about embedding Tableau dashboards into Salesforce using Canvas. This lets you get data to your Salesforce users, in the context of their everyday work, so they have the information to make the right decisions. Many of you asked for the documentation for this, and today we're releasing that.