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Welcome to the final 2013 Best of Tableau Web, looking back at December's blogging content. For those of you who aren't yet blogging, I hope they inspire you to start.

Working with Survey data is notoriously tricky. Different answer types, especially Likert scales, as well as free-form answers make the data dense. Now try to cut it by demographics and it gets even harder. For those reasons, many people who collect survey data fail to get the understanding of it that they hoped for. A new whitepaper by Steve Wexler offers a path to insight.

Allergan, a multi-specialty healthcare company with operations around the globe, employs more than 11,000 people worldwide. Joe Madigan is the Director of Customer Services in the EMEA region—Europe, the Middle East, and Asia. With so much ground to cover, he’s got a lot of data. In 2009, each of the 12 customer service sites in the EMEA region was using its own contact center technology—which caused data inefficiencies. In this interview, Madigan explains how his team went from 1 Tableau Desktop license to 20—and how that fostered a healthy environment for data and finances.

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

In this 2nd in a series of posts about the upcoming 8.1 release, I get to introduce one of the most exciting new features in Tableau 8.1: R integration. R has been a very popular language among statisticians but in the past few years, it has become the language of choice for a much broader group of data enthusiasts.

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

This is the first in a series of blog posts on the Tableau 8.1 release. With every release we try to provide features that help people answer more questions. Tableau 8.1 is now in beta with a host of new analytical capabilities, from boxplots to one-click percentiles and ranking.

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

Ever wished you could easily share analytics with your colleagues? Ever wanted to collaborate on a dashboard with a customer or partner? Or wish you could access and work securely with data on your tablet, without having to VPN into your corporate network? But you couldn’t. Or you could, but didn’t want to download software or spin up an IT project. If so, then today is a big day. Today we’re announcing Tableau Online, a hosted version of Tableau Server in the cloud. It’s the fastest way to get up and running with a complete business intelligence platform. We take care of the infrastructure, you share analytics. It’s that easy.

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

If you don't have your ticket yet for the Tableau Customer Conference in Washington D.C., you're gonna want to pick it up before Friday, when the early bird discount expires. In addition to keynotes by Nate Silver, Charles Wheelan and Tableau's co-founders, we can finally announce some of the Tableau customers who will be speaking at TCC about how they use Tableau in their own companies. Alongside household names like LinkedIn and Wells Fargo, you'll have the chance to hear from small- and medium-sized companies and agencies, including AudienceAudit, Manpower Group and the Broad Institute. Read more for a full list of confirmed customer speakers.

Distinct counts are critical to analytics, whether it's counting individual patients in a hospital, the number of unique retail transactions, or the number of airplanes in a fleet. Taking distinct counts in Tableau is incredibly easy with a one-click way to change aggregations to count distinct. It is also, however, one of the more intensive calculations to perform and can be very slow, especially if you're data's huge. I'd like to share a few alternative ways to get the same answer as a count distinct.