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Resources and stories to help you achieve data awesomeness
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Unlocking the Power of Data for Communities: A Call To Action
Awareness, transparency, and engagement are hallmarks of a thriving community. Information – data – is what drives engagement. Traditionally, data about community issues and resources
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Don’t let Ventura turn you into a Tab-loo-hoo-zuh-her
As a company, we ran into an interesting issue this week where our favorite datawarehouse, Snowflake, wasn’t connecting to Tableau Desktop. This was only happening
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Friends Don’t Let Friends Struggle with Tableau: The One with Easy Naming Conventions
I recently wrote about how some people often have the urge to verify data in Data Visualizations, and some steps we take to keep governance,
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Tableau and Chill? Only After a Double-Check with Excel!
It used to be the norm for people to download data from Tableau then check it against formulas they kept in Excel. People are now
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I Can See Clearly Now
We have several clients who insist on a light background with dark text. Despite my sunny personality, I always gravitate towards a darker background with
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Bridging the Gap with a Guide
When Training Data Just Isn’t Enough Written by Heather Ditillo I loved being a road warrior, traveling the country teaching Tableau and helping my students
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Sugar-Coating Your Data
When Radial Pie Charts Serve Up More Style Than Substance Tableau Public is promoting radial pie charts and I don’t understand why. Radial charts are
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Four Key Ways to Handle Tableaut (ta.BLOAT)
tableaut /ta.bloat/ noun def: When your Tableau Server has too many dashboards, making users too overwhelmed to make confident decisions. “If we don’t consolidate these
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Knowledge-Driven Business Strategy
You’re Going to Need A Smarter Boat Data Driven Business (DDB) has been a buzz phrase for a hot minute. Although I agree in spirit
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5 Ways to Improve Dashboard Engagement
Sometimes it’s the little things that can make a big impact with data visualization. Odds are you are closer than you think to build amazing
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15 Awesome Resources for Learning Tableau
15 Awesome Tableau Resources (in no order whatsoever) Visualizing data in Tableau can help transform your business into a data driven culture. We love helping
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Displaying A Dashboard On A TV Screen
Displaying your data on a beautiful big screen TV can be a daunting task, but it doesn’t have to be. Here are some simple steps