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Join us at the 1st Tableau European Customer Conference!
We hope to see you at the upcoming Tableau Conference in Amsterdam, May 9th-11th. Amsterdam should be beautiful in early May along with a slate of exciting conference speakers including Stephen Few, Christian Chabot, Chris Stolte, Jock Mackinlay, Elissa Fink, Marc Rueter and other great people from Tableau. Freakalytics will be teaching our one-day dashboard workshop on the 9th along with two other workshop opportunities.
Designing, Building & Maintaining Dashboards with Tableau
1-day Workshop
Led by Stephen McDaniel
Dashboards are an ideal means of sharing key findings with Tableau. Achieving great success with dashboards requires a variety of skills- communication, analysis, visual design, data management and Tableau expertise. This one-day session uses a case study approach, integrating lecture with hands-on experience.
+ Framing dashboard efforts with a solid understanding of business needs
+ A review of dashboard types, typical challenges, best practices and examples of good and poor dashboards
+ A detailed review of Tableau functionality relevant to dashboard development and deployment
+ Multiple dashboard case studies will be jointly developed and reviewed throughout the course
Where is the authoritative Tableau reference guide???
As you are likely aware, we wrote the first book on Tableau, “Rapid Graphs with Tableau Software“. It is intended to guide people through the overall capabilities, product flow and key features of Tableau. At 160 pages, it is an intentionally light and quick-flowing introduction to using Tableau for typical data analysis and visualization needs. A new version of the book for version 6 of Tableau will be out soon.
However, we occasionally hear from advanced users seeking an authoritative reference guide on Tableau. Given the breadth of Tableau capabilities
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The Accidental Analyst®, Show Your Data Who’s Boss!
As the amount of data collected by businesses has exploded, many people find that they are drowning in a sea of uninformative spreadsheets and overwhelming reports. To succeed in this complex new world, people who were never trained to do analysis face an urgent need to uncover the valuable information hidden in their data.
The Accidental Analyst® walks you through a flexible framework to help you learn the process and techniques necessary to turn your data into valuable results. Examples and hands-on exercises using popular software tools illustrate key topics throughout the book.
Eileen McDaniel, Stephen McDaniel and Jonathan Koomey
Analytics Press
On-site training available starting in May, 2011
Book coming soon
Tableau Tips: displaying growth rates in maps
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A recent training attendee asked how to show year over year growth in a map. In particular, they wanted to use the Year over Year growth selection from the Quick Table Calculation menu. This simple dashboard
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