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• Available today: Explain Data, Tableau Catalog, and Tableau Server Management Add-on
  Tableau 2019.3 brings new capabilities to help you do more with your data. With this release, we’re helping you better understand and build trust in your data. We’re making it easier to grow as a data-driven organization and operate Tableau at even greater scale. Let’s take a look at the highlights: Explain Data: A new […]
• Best of the Tableau Web: Developing your Tableau skills
  Welcome to my August review of the best blogs and podcasts shared by the Tableau community. Sometimes people say they don’t know how to get started or that they find some content intimidating. I understand that sentiment⁠—the Iron Viz entries showcase people with very impressive skills. But you shouldn’t be intimidated; everyone entering Iron Viz […]
• Become Certifiably Tableau at TC19
  Learning doesn't always happen in a classroom and it doesn't stop when you finish school. Getting Tableau certified is a great way to challenge yourself, showcase your skills, and distinguish you as an expert. There’s no better place to get Tableau certified than Tableau Conference, where you can carve out the time away from your […]
• These companies used Tableau + Snowflake for flexibility and scale, a winning combination
  Earlier this summer, we caught up with a few of our customers at Snowflake Summit, Snowflake’s inaugural customer conference. At the Summit, we learned how they’re combining the scalability and flexibility of Snowflake’s cloud data warehouse with the powerful visual analytics capabilities of Tableau. From a fitness app that serves over 41 million athletes to […]
• 3 storytelling with color tips to improve your data visualization
  A version of this post originally appeared on PlayfairData by Ryan Sleeper. For more tips and tutorials from Ryan, check out his blog. There are some fascinating parallels between storytelling and the practice of data visualization. Every story contains at least three elements: characters, plot, and narrative. The way that I equate those three aspects […]
• Tips and tricks for filtering your data with Tableau Prep Builder
  When cleaning your data, you often filter out values you don’t need. But not all filters are created equal. You may want to exclude one value, keep a range of values, keep things that match a pattern, or filter a range of specific values. All this can be done with calculations, but writing them can […]
• Answer your investment questions faster with Tableau
  Smart investors diversify across multiple managers, custodians, and brokers. But that diversification creates a huge challenge: Bringing data together to get a complete understanding of your portfolio. Investors seeking to understand the status of their positions must log into multiple portals, download spreadsheets, trim data, and combine them together. It’s a process that can take […]
• Understanding how Tableau calculation types work together
  Tableau calculations can be challenging If you are struggling to understand how to use Calculations in Tableau, you are not alone. It’s one of the most challenging aspects of Tableau to explain to my MBA or MSc students, and it took me a few years to be comfortable using them, myself. After trying many different […]
• Specialized learning at TC19 for government, financial services, healthcare, and more
  Across dozens of fields like financial services, education, government, healthcare, among others, it's likely that your company asks you to be relatively specialized in your role. Since workplaces are traditionally siloed, a few commonalities—and avenues for closer collaboration—across departments are shared processes and resources like software. Regardless of whether you're an analyst, marketing manager, accountant, […]
• It’s always summer in the developer’s sandbox!
  During August’s Developer Sprint Demos, we introduced Sandboxed Extensions, a new type of locked-down extension that can’t send data outside of Tableau. Michael Kovner, senior product manager, brought the audience up-to-date by explaining why Sandboxed Extensions was developed. Michael noted that in 2018 Tableau released the Extensions API, allowing developers to write new, third party […]