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		<title>Map dashboard, state budget shortfalls for 2011, just 30 minutes with Tableau</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Jul 2010 17:40:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen McDaniel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Time magazine recently published a map of state budget shortfalls for 2011 by state. While this was a good attempt, I thought it would be informative to show this data in Tableau to offer additional insight. The image of Time&#8217;s map is not as clear as a regular scanned image since I used my iPhone- [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Thoughts about &#8220;Circle-Lust Continues&#8221;, just 30 minutes with Tableau</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 30 May 2010 03:12:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen McDaniel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I read with fascination that this visualization won the Sunlight Foundation&#8217;s $5,000 prize for &#8220;Best Visualization Using Data about US Spending&#8221;. &#160; &#160; This graphic is reminiscent of Kandinsky&#8217;s painting, &#8220;Farbstudie Quadrate&#8221;. I love much of Miro&#8217;s work, so I have to say that I find the above visualization &#8220;cool&#8221;, both artistically and emotionally appealing. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dashboard tips by example- maps to inform, standard and novel approaches</title>
		<link>http://www.freakalytics.com/2010/05/16/db_tips_maps_novel/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 May 2010 23:46:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen McDaniel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dashboards developed for clients frequently incorporate maps. Tableau offers quick, simple yet insightful mapping capabilities out of the box. I have noticed that many maps used in my client’s dashboards attempt to display continuous measures. Examples include sales in the past quarter, year to date expenses versus budget or number of open sales opportunities. All [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dashboard tips by example- bar charts as cascading filters</title>
		<link>http://www.freakalytics.com/2010/04/27/dashboard-tips-by-example-bar-charts-as-cascading-filters/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Apr 2010 12:28:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen McDaniel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This dashboard, a Customer Sales Dashboard for a boutique winery, offers one strategic view of key questions asked by winery management. Information such as amount of sales attributed to various marketing programs, estimated profits by customer segment and number of customers acquired during each of the last four years is displayed. Using a series of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Simple Dashboard Design Strategies Presentation and Making Oil Personal Dashboard</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Apr 2010 17:55:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen McDaniel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The &#8220;Simple Business Dashboard Design Strategies&#8221; presentation can be downloaded here. I am presenting this presentation today at 4 PM Pacific on Stacey Barr&#8217;s Measure and More Webinar. The dashboard example in this presentation is available below. Enjoy! Oil making it personal Powered by Tableau]]></description>
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		<title>Upcoming April presentations and books by Freakalytics</title>
		<link>http://www.freakalytics.com/2010/04/05/april-2010-presentations-by-freakalytics/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Apr 2010 11:22:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen McDaniel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We have several presentations and a book release in the the month of April! We will be at the SAS Global Forum author party Monday afternoon, April 12th. &#8220;SAS for Dummies&#8221; is being released today, April 5th. I will be at the author party at the SGF conference with Chris Hemedinger (co-author) meeting other authors [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Agriculutural subsidies working against the health of America???</title>
		<link>http://www.freakalytics.com/2010/03/12/agriculutural-subsidies/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Mar 2010 03:04:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen McDaniel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Inspired by a post at Flowing Data, I present three visuals that demonstrate how the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine could improve the presentation of this vital information. I personally found it shocking that US agricultural subsidies were so small for the healthier foods, especially fruits and vegetables. I hope that Congress might take a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Green living dashboard &#8211; green activities in the daily lives of Americans</title>
		<link>http://www.freakalytics.com/2010/03/10/greenliving/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 03:56:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eileen McDaniel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Which “green” activities are consumers performing in their everyday lives? Activities that- Save them money? Are easy to do? Are the most beneficial to the environment? Some combination of the three? Dashboard 1 Powered by Tableau Developing an innovative approach, we combined insights from a recent survey of consumer behavior with expert opinion on green [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dashboard Nirvana and Visual Management of Marketing Programs</title>
		<link>http://www.freakalytics.com/2010/02/28/visual_marketing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Mar 2010 05:19:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen McDaniel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[View and interact with the strategic customer sales and analyst exploratory dashboards below, both hosted by tableau public. Read Eileen&#8217;s white paper, &#8220;Visual Management of Marketing Programs&#8220;, for detailed explanations on maximizing Marketing ROI with visual marketing dashboards. For practical, tested in the trenches advice on creating great dashboards for marketing programs, view Stephen&#8217;s Dashboard [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Your favorite Freakalytics blog posts of 2009!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Jan 2010 16:41:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen McDaniel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Number 6 Waterfall chart examples with detailed instructions on creating them with your own data in Tableau Waterfall Chart in Tableau and a Superior Alternative… Number 5 Do your New Year&#8217;s resolutions have you wondering where your money goes? Here&#8217;s a snapshot of the average American and their spending habits How the average American spends [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rapid Graphs- Tableau for Customer Segmentation and Lifetime Value Analysis</title>
		<link>http://www.freakalytics.com/2009/07/18/ltv/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Jul 2009 19:41:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen McDaniel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This was presented at the Tableau Conference 2009. It is about the tremendous opportunities to leverage customer segmentation and lifetime value data at the individual customer level. Click here for the presentation. Identifying segments for every customer can unlock long-hidden value for your marketing team. Combining this information with Tableau creates a simple means for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How the average American spends their income</title>
		<link>http://www.freakalytics.com/2009/07/14/how-the-average-american-spends-their-income/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2009 11:51:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen McDaniel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is frustrating to see valuable information hidden in well-meaning, but uninformative charts. FlowingData.com referenced just such an article, &#8220;How The Average U.S. Consumer Spends Their Paycheck&#8220;. The chart in the original article at Visual Economics is indeed attractive. Unfortunately, it is also very hard to understand.  Key data relationships that should jump off of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Download Slides- Webinar With Tableau on Visual Data Mining</title>
		<link>http://www.freakalytics.com/2009/06/05/upcoming-webinar-with-tableau-on-visual-data-mining/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Jun 2009 07:05:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen McDaniel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thanks for all of your kind comments and wonderful feedback!  I will try to get back to as many of you as the last few weeks of writing the book allows! Visual Data Mining: Finding Patterns and Key Insights in Online Marketing Data Date/Time: Already Occured- 6/11/2009 Presented by: American Marketing Association Sponsored by: Tableau [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Maximizing Sustainability by Incorporating Consumer Behavior &amp; Environmental Expert Opinion</title>
		<link>http://www.freakalytics.com/2009/06/02/maximizing-sustainability-by-incorporating-consumer-behavior-and-environmental-expert-opinion/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2009 13:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eileen McDaniel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Download the full paper by Eileen McDaniel, Ph.D., &#8220;A Practical Framework for Green Policy Decision-Makers: Maximizing Sustainability by Incorporating Consumer Behavior and Environmental Expert Opinion&#8221; (PDF.) Executive Summary Which “green” activities are consumers performing in their everyday lives?  Activities that- •    Save them money? •    Are easy to do? •    Are the most beneficial to [...]]]></description>
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