Make Me Smarter Lightning Round Tips and Tricks - Tableau 8.2 EditionBy Ross Perez Jul 15, 2014 Tableau 8.2 contains two important new features that will make your work with Tableau easier and more effective. Watch the video to see how: Read moreRead more about Lightning Round Tips and Tricks - Tableau 8.2 Edition4 commentsAdd new comment

Entertain Me July Viz RoundupBy Ross Perez Jul 16, 2014 One of the things we like the most about our customers is that they share a key passion of ours: telling stories with data. This passion is also shared by the thousands of Tableau Public authors that publish data stories to the web every day. The best place to see these stories is to subscribe to Viz of the Day; today we’ve taken a selection of the best data stories over the past several months to share with you. Read moreRead more about July Viz Roundup2 comments

Make Me Smarter Tips and Tricks From TC14By Ross Perez Sep 16, 2014 Some of the more interesting and practical sessions at TC14 were the Rapid Fire Tips and Tricks sessions led by Daniel Hom. Don't worry if you missed them: we're bringing two of the most interesting and useful tricks straight to you today. Read moreRead more about Tips and Tricks From TC149 commentsAdd new comment

Entertain Me October Viz Round-UpBy Ross Perez Oct 1, 2014 It’s time for the Viz Roundup! Every several months we look back on Viz of the Day and find visualizations that were especially meaningful, important or influential to share with you. This Roundup is particularly special because the majority of our featured vizzes have taken advantage of the new Story Points feature recently released in Tableau 8.2, which makes it easier to tell a narrative story with data. Take a look for yourself. Read moreRead more about October Viz Round-Up3 commentsAdd new comment

Make Me Smarter Extending Enterprise Security with Kerberos Support: Now in Beta!By Neelesh Kamkolkar Oct 20, 2014 Kerberos is coming to Tableau very soon. Many of you have asked for Kerberos support to provide single sign-on from the client all the way to the database. Well, I’m excited to announce the beta of Tableau 8.3, which delivers support for Kerberos for Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft Analysis Server, and Cloudera Impala. Tableau already supports enterprise class security and authentication mechanisms like integration with Active Directory and Identity Management providers with SAML. In addition, Tableau Server supports native authentication for smaller teams that want to use Server out of the box. With the release of 8.3, we are extending that flexibility further to include support for Kerberos. Read moreRead more about Extending Enterprise Security with Kerberos Support: Now in Beta!8 commentsAdd new comment

Keep Me in the Loop Announcing Tableau 8.3 Kerberos SupportBy Neelesh Kamkolkar Dec 1, 2014 Product Manager Neelesh Kamkolkar announces the launch of Tableau 8.3 which extends Enterprise Security with Support for Kerberos. Read moreRead more about Announcing Tableau 8.3 Kerberos Support1 commentAdd new comment

Make Me Smarter LRTT: Optimizing Difficult Data for Shared AnalysisBy Ross Perez Dec 2, 2014 Customers will often tell us that they like using Tableau to drag and drop and create visualizations, but their database is difficult and messy. It could be slow, hard to understand, or challenging to use, but either way the people who need to analyze data don't feel comfortable connecting to the database and using the data within it. Read moreRead more about LRTT: Optimizing Difficult Data for Shared Analysis3 commentsAdd new comment

Entertain Me December Viz RoundupBy Lucas Stewart Dec 2, 2014 It’s time for the Viz Roundup! Every so often we look back fondly on our Viz of the Day feed and find vizzes that were especially meaningful, important, or entertaining to share with you. The new Story Points feature recently released with Tableau 8.2 has made it much easier to narrate events with data. Feast your eyes on these impressive ways members of our community have used data to tell a story. Read moreRead more about December Viz RoundupAdd new comment

Make Me Smarter Tableau 9.0 Preview: Stay in the flow with Auto Data PrepBy Marc Rueter Jan 22, 2015 Analytics isn't just for pretty data. Tableau 9.0, currently in beta, automates cleaning up messy data, especially Excel spreadsheets. This includes The Tableau Data Interpreter to automatically identify the structure of an excel file, new tools to pivot and split data, and a new layout to quickly operate on metadata. Together with the Automatic Data Modeling that was released in 8.2, these new features help you quickly get your data ready for analysis. Read moreRead more about Tableau 9.0 Preview: Stay in the flow with Auto Data Prep11 commentsAdd new comment

Keep Me in the Loop Tableau 9 Beta is Out!By Ellie Fields Jan 12, 2015 Update: We are excited to announce that Tableau 9.0 is now available. Many of you began receiving emails Friday night letting you know that the Tableau 9.0 beta is out. Several of the features in Tableau 9.0 were shown at the 2014 Tableau Conference. You can see the keynote presentation from TC14 here to get an idea of what’s coming out. There’s much more on the beta than we had time to show at the conference. Read moreRead more about Tableau 9 Beta is Out!82 commentsAdd new comment