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Stephen Few’s Review of Tableau 8: Tableau Veers from the Path
The first person who exposed me to best practices in data visualization was Stephen Few. I had the good fortune to take a one day Data Visualization class from him in 2007 at TDWI in San Diego....
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Gartner Magic Quadrant for Business Intelligence on Tableau Public
This is a pretty neat little Tableau Public visualization. You are able to see how a particular BI product has done historically on the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Business Intelligence. Enjoy! Michael...
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Tableau 8: The Kraken, Bubble Maps and Andy Cotgreave
The Kraken One of the great sea monsters of Norse myth and legend is the Kraken, said to be able to overturn ships and drag them down into the cold depths. There seems to be a degree of confusion with...
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Tableau 8: The Kraken, Bubble Maps and Andy Cotgreave – Part II
Andy Cotgreave Andy Cotgreave is Tableau Software’s senior data analyst in the UK. With 16+ years experience battling with good and bad Business Intelligence (BI) tools, Andy has held positions in data...
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Tableau: Ben Jones – Remixing it up in New York
Ben Jones is a Tableau Public Product Marketing Manager with Tableau Software. Ben recently spoke at Data Visualization New York. I wanted to share some of Ben’s thoughts. You can also find the full...
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Robert Kosara, EagerEyes and the Bikini Chart
Robert Kosara Robert Kosara is a Visual Analysis Researcher at Tableau Software, and formerly Associate Professor of Computer Science at UNC Charlotte. He has created visualization techniques like...
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Steve Wexler, Data Revelations, Tableau, and How Best to Visualize Likert...
Steve Wexler Steve Wexler publishes the blog Data Revelations ( http://www.datarevelations.com ). He is a Certified Tableau Trainer who has developed thousands of interactive data visualizations. As...
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Tableau: Ben Jones’ 7 Pioneers of Data Visualization
Ben Jones posted a great data visualization on his DataRemixed Web site. Ben is delivering a presentation today at TCC13 at 4pm called “7 Things We Can Learn from the Pioneers of Data Visualization”....
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Critiquing Data Visualizations
Critiquing Data Visualizations I attended an online webinar today hosted by Data Science Central titled Making Flow Happen: Dashboards that Persuade, Inform, and Engage. The presenter was Jeff...
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Has MicroStrategy Toppled Tableau as the Analytics King?
In a recent TDWI article titled Analysis: MicroStrategy’s Would-Be Analytics King, Stephen Swoyer, who is a technology writer based in Nashville, TN, stated that business intelligence (BI) stalwart...
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Robert Kosara announces NewsVis.org, The Directory of News Visualizations
Robert Kosara is a Visual Analysis Researcher at Tableau Software, and formerly Associate Professor of Computer Science at UNC Charlotte. He has created visualization techniques like Parallel Sets and...
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An Introduction to Data Blending – Part 1 (Introduction, Visual Analysis...
Readers: Today I am beginning a multi-part series on data blending. Parts 1, 2 and 3 will be an introduction and overview of what data blending is. Part 4 will review an illustrative example of how to...
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An Introduction to Data Blending – Part 2 (Hans Rosling, Gapminder and Data...
Readers: In Part 1 of this series on data blending, we began to explore the concepts of data blending as well as the life-cycle of visual analysis. Today, in Part 2 of this series, we will dig deeper...
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An Introduction to Data Blending – Part 3 (Benefits of Blending Data)
Readers: In Part 2 of this series on data blending, we delved deeper into understanding what data blending is. We also examined how data blending is used in Hans Rosling’s well-known Gapminder...
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An Introduction to Data Blending – Part 4 (Data Blending Design Principles)
Readers: In Part 3 of this series on data blending, we examining the benefits of blending data. We also reviewed an example of data blending that illustrated the possible outcomes of an election for...
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An Introduction to Data Blending – Part 5 (Tableau’s Data Blending Architecture)
Readers: In Part 4 of this series on data blending, we reviewed Tableau’s Data Blending Principles. We also reviewed an example of data blending in Jonathan Drummey’s Patient Falls Dashboard. [3]...
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An Introduction to Data Blending – Part 6 (Data Blending using MicroStrategy)
Readers: In Part 5 of this series on data blending, we reviewed Tableau’s Data Blending Architecture. With Part 5, I have wrapped up the Tableau portion of this series. I am now going to post, over the...
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Bryan’s BI Blog: MicroStrategy vs Tableau
Readers: Bryan Brandow, has posted his second new post on his new blog, Bryan’s BI Blog and it is a doozy. Bryan does an in-depth comparison of MicroStrategy vs. Tableau. Here is a link to the...
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Small Multiples, Tableau and Ben Jones
Readers: My BI world is changing a bit as I move more towards using Cognos and Tableau at work. In particular, I have a lot of status reports and dashboards to create for my leadership and I have been...
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Jock Mackinlay and Tableau’s Research Team is Building Tomorrow’s UX for Data
Readers: I thought I would present some interesting information visualization research being conducted at Tableau Software by Jock Mackinlay (photo, right) and his research team. Mr. Mackinlay is an...
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