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Have you ever noticed that when you go to different places in the Tableau community, certain people continue to pop up, always answering questions, posting interesting vizzes, or sharing relevant content?

For 5-year-old Jett Black, few things are as cool as the Grossery Gang, a collection of tiny rubber toys with colorful names like Awful Waffle and Sticky Soda. “I collect them! Just because they’re neat,” says Jett, who has more than 100 of these characters and often likes to paint them. There are some 200 characters in all, says Jett’s dad, Ken Black. And early on, Jett took a data-driven approach to building his collection.

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."

Who would have thought that a phone call to Andy Kriebel in November 2015 would lead to nearly 500 people creating over 3,000 visualizations in one year? That’s the humbling, amazing, inspiring, surprising, rewarding, astonishing result of Makeover Monday.

Tableau has made it possible to move from a situation in which I couldn't analyse or visualize most of the open data available. Nowadays, I spend a significant part of my spare time visualizing data with Tableau.

Relive the magic that was TC16. And check out the best of the Tableau web.

How do you explore data? What path do you take from opening a data set to publishing a dashboard? Do you go in a straight line or a squiggly path? This week Tableau’s research team is joining Makeover Monday to help answer those questions.

I didn’t start my career in anything remotely close to this field. No, I went into American Sign Language interpreting and spent a good bit of time with a startup. Somehow, I ended up here. If you’re an oddball like me, this is what I wished I’d heard earlier.

We believe people should not be forced down a straight line, but be able to explore the data, chasing hunches, in order to focus on the best articulation of the data. Knowing more about people’s behaviour helps us improve Tableau. We want you to help us by getting involved in a special experiment next week. The research team are joining with Makeover Monday for a special “advanced logging” week. Collecting multiple log files from people all exploring the data set will give us a unique perspective on people’s paths through the data.

The feeder competitions are fierce, but no matter what your current skill level, you, too, can work your way to the Iron Viz stage. And when you do, use these tips to propel you to the top!

If everything’s bigger in Texas, and Austin keeps it weird, then it comes as no surprise that this year’s Tableau Conference has been the biggest and best yet. Some 13,000 of you came, registered, schedule (scouted), and you conquered. From the 400+ sessions to the Iron Viz Championship, people everywhere were seeing and understanding data in new ways.

Twenty minutes to the start of the Iron Viz competition, the energy in Viz Stadium was palpable. As the music blared and lights flashed, the same question was on every person’s mind: Who will be crowned 2016’s Iron Viz champion?