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You already know that using visualizations to communicate data is fast, easy, and efficient (pictures are so much easier to interpret than a crosstab full of numbers!). But you might be wondering how to communicate with your data even faster. Let’s talk about data—specifically visualizing your data in a way that unveils insight faster.

Let me show you how to marry two data tools, Tableau and Google Trends. Why? Because you might want to quickly check how certain categories in your data have fared in search over time relative to one another.

How many of the companies out there are truly innovative? At times the concept of innovation sounds a lot like teenage sex—everyone is talking about it, only a few are doing it, and even fewer are doing it right. I went looking for attributes that make companies truly innovative.

I have no idea how long you've been able to do this, but it is something I recently figured out. For a long time, it has frustrated me that there is no "select/deselect all" button on the action dialogs in Tableau.

您的数据可在 Google 表格中？您可以直接连接到 Tableau 10 中的数据！

To meet the many needs of our customers, Tableau’s approach to cloud is simple: It’s all about choice. The choice of how and where you deploy your analytics. The choice to analyze any data, regardless of where it resides, no matter how you’ve chosen to deploy your analytics.

Have you ever heard of BI-nosaurs? At this year's Gartner BI Summit, Gartner's Research Director Joao Tapadinhas presented a session titled “How to Architect a Modern BI and Analytics Platform.” In this presentation, Joao refers to folks working on traditional BI platforms and not embracing new trends like self-service BI as BI-nosaurs. If they do not evaluate the new way of doing BI, Joao suggests, they could become extinct.

There is nothing worse than opening a report in an Excel spreadsheet and seeing pages and pages of columns that provide little or no insight into the data. But text tables do have their place, especially in the financial sector. Here are some things to consider when designing text tables.