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The Seven Developers of Tableau 7 – Tableau Customer Conference 2011

Chris Stolte, Chief Development Officer at Tableau introduced
Six senior developers on stage for a preview of Tableau 7.

Chris Stolte

Tableau’s mission is help people see and understand their data.

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How much simpler can it get?

Tableau was started while

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Cool video of animated Freakalytics logo opens Tableau Customer Conference 2011

Who said that analytics can’t be a fun way to start your day? Tableau animated our dashboard at http://www.freakalytics.com/snp-pub-freak/ and set it to the music of Journey! Awesome job Tableau and a great way to kick-off the conference!

Click here to watch the video!

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State of Washington government salaries from 2010, search all 160,000 employees

State of Washington government salary information is now available at WashingtonGovernmentSalaries.com. The dashboard is fully searchable by agency, job title and employee using a dashboard developed by Freakalytics and hosted by Tableau Public. Both companies are based in Seattle, Washington. Freakalytics specializes in expert, in-person analytics training and popular books on analytics. Tableau is a world-leading software company specializing in fast-analytics software.

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Helping a social media expert- just 30 minutes with Tableau

While working hard on a busy weekend, I decided to take a “break” from our upcoming book and client work to spend 30 minutes to help and surprise a newer user of Tableau- social media expert Justin Flitter of New Zealand. He is new to Tableau Public and had started off with a look at some social media metrics by country. Here is a snapshot of his initial work:
 

 
 
 
After reviewing his initial workbook

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Tableau file types- purpose, features and limitations


TWB - Tableau WorkBook file

1) A text file, to be more specific, an XML file, which is a highly structured text file that contains

a) Data connection information

b) View layout definitions

c) And thumbnails or snapshots of each view

 

TWBX Tableau packaged WorkBook file

1) Everything contained in a Tableau WorkBook file

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Wimbledon winners longevity, by years since 1st win, small form-factor

 
All four of the Wimbledon examples on this website were created in less than two hours using Tableau- this includes three distinct perspectives on the Wimbledon winners data and two of them in a compact design for use on the Guardian web site.

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Wimbledon winners by ranking (seed) and gender, small form-factor

 
All four of the Wimbledon examples on this website were created in less than two hours using Tableau- this includes three distinct perspectives on the Wimbledon winners data and two of them in a compact design for use on the Guardian web site.

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Wimbledon winners dashboard

Wimbledon winners by country and player

 
The compact form of this example was also featured on The Guardian DataBlog, the third most popular online newspaper in the world. All four of the Wimbledon examples on this website were created in less than two hours using Tableau- this includes three distinct perspectives on the Wimbledon winners data and two of them in a compact design for use on the Guardian web site.

 

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