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Online videos of Stephen Few and Pat Hanrahan keynotes at Tuesday's Tableau Conference
Posted by Elissa Fink on July 23, 2008Check out our on-the-spot video recordings of keynote speakers from Day Two (Tuesday, July 22) of Tableau's first ever Customer Conference. They include videos of Stephen Few and Pat Hanrahan.
Learning from Tableau, and from you
Posted by Raif Majeed on July 23, 2008This old Tableau dog learned a few new tricks over the past couple of days. And most of it was not from fellow Tableau employees.
Raising the Bar: Team-Oriented Brainstorming with Tableau
Posted by Robert Morton on July 22, 2008"Insight brings value out of data," explains George Smirnoff. As Managing Director at Trexin Consulting, George enlists a multidisciplinary staff for collaborative root-cause analysis. Tableau is well suited for the iterative process of developing insight, and is an exciting centerpiece of his teams' dynamic brainstorming sessions.
Understanding Surveys using Highlight Tables
Posted by Robert Morton on July 22, 2008Surveys on topics such as customer satisfaction are rich with qualitative data, but analysis often requires quantitative comparisons, aggregation, etcetera. Steve Wexler, Director of Research at the eLearning Guild, discusses how some straightforward techniques in Tableau lead to "visualizations that people can grok from the back of a conference room."
Online videos of Monday's keynotes - nearly live and in person
Posted by Elissa Fink on July 22, 2008Check out our on-the-spot video recordings of keynote speakers from Day One (Monday, July 20)...
+ Christian Chabot assesses where analytics has been and is going, highlights key capabilities of Tableau 4.0 and shares his vision of Tableau's future. Watch the video - about 45 minutes.
+ Chris Stolte, along with 3 of Tableau's key developers, showcases and demos the new capablities of Tableau 4.0 real-time. Watch the video - about 45 minutes.
Compare and Contrast: Focusing on Data, not Tools
Posted by Robert Morton on July 21, 2008Under the leadership of Cindy Cedlacek, Director of Data Administration and Reporting at Cornell University, her team is on track to deliver Key Performance Indicators for the university using both Tableau Desktop and Tableau Server. In her words, discovering Tableau was "the best thing that ever happened for the project."
Customers Learning While We Learn From Customers
Posted by Elissa Fink on July 21, 2008Nearly 200 of our best customers are here in Seattle at the Tableau Customer Conference with us enjoying the fine weather and learning about upcoming release, Tableau 4.0. We're at maximum capacity. Here are three interactions I had with customers where I discovered something new about how analyics are proliferating.
Two Takeaways (for an employee)
Posted by Raif Majeed on July 21, 2008Two main things really struck me from this morning's events at the customer conference.
Battling Anecdote with Analysis using Tableau
Posted by Robert Morton on July 21, 2008Jon Nakamoto, M.D., Ph.D. describes a key challenge of his job as battling the anecdotes and innuendos that fuel his customers' stereotypes about inherent inefficiency. As Managing Director at the Quest Diagnostics Nichols Institute, his successes with Tableau have inspired a sense of trust and partnership with his very demanding customers.
Liveblogging the Tableau Customer conference
Posted by Robert Morton on July 21, 2008Welcome to the first-ever Tableau Customer Conference! Whether you are joining us in person or following this event remotely, follow our blog posts as Tableau employees liveblog this exciting event across a variety of social networks.
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