Best of the Tableau Web: March 2013

As March comes to an end, let's have a look at what people have been blogging about this month. I'd like to thank all of those who are out there, blogging about Tableau. Whether it's innovating new ways to use the software or applying it to real data, we're hugely grateful! 

As March comes to an end, let's have a look at what people have been blogging about this month. I'd like to thank all of those who are out there, blogging about Tableau. Whether it's innovating new ways to use the software or applying it to real data, we're hugely grateful! As always you can follow me on twitter (@acotgreave) if you want to hear about these posts as they are published. Until next month, get blogging!

  • VizWiz - Putting Tableau 8 to the test – Every photo from the International Space Station: amazing! How Tableau renders 1 million dots! - Tableau use case
  • Drawing with Numbers - Tableau Data Blending, Sparse Data, Multiple Levels of Granularity, and Improvements in Version 8: an in-depth look into our new v8 blending features - Tableau Tips
  • Bora Beran - Trellis charts with Tableau: a really nice look at ways of using small multiples - Tableau Tips
  • The Ivory Sofa - Is There Life After Fifty for a Songwriter?: do song writers get better or worse over time, asks Kyle Biehle - Tableau use case
  • Tableau Friction - Tableau 8 is Digital Photography in a Film BI World: Metaphorical discussions on Tableau - Tableau tips
  • Alan Smithee Presents - Excel Colour Palette: how to do custom colour palettes in Tableau - Tableau tips
  • VizWiz - Where do American’s commute to work? An interactive map of county-to-county commutes - Tableau use case
  • Drawing With Numbers - Customizing Grand Totals in Tableau v8 – The Stacking Snag: hacking our Grand Total techniques - Tableau tips
  • Health Intelligence - The 2010 Haiti Earthquake: My first dashboard on Tableau Public: a look back at our early Tableau Public dashboards - Tableau use case