Learning by Example - Real Data Visualizations with Real Data Now Available

If you're like most people, one way you like to learn new stuff is by example. So recently several people at Tableau Software put together over 40 different examples of data visualizations based on many different types of data. Each is accompanied by a Tableau packaged workbook which contains additional visualizations and the data behind them. Everything is available as free downloads.

Inside Healthcare Computing Reports Major Hospital Saved $20 Million with Tableau Software

We love it when we learn about customers not only creating insightful and beautiful visualizations but also (and more importantly) creating real value for their organizations. As a recent article in Inside Healthcare Computing reported, a major hospital in Ohio "avoids $20 Million in denials in one year using IT-recommended $1,800 software package". That $1,800 package was Tableau Desktop. How did they do it? Our client told it best. We've also got a case study.

Registration is Open for the Tableau Customer Conference

We want you!

As mentioned, we're holding our first ever Tableau Customer Conference July 20-22, 2008 in Seattle, WA. And we just launched a website where we'll be keeping the latest news up-to-date. Head over to www.tableaucustomerconference.com and check out our agenda. It includes...

Analyzing Google AdWords Data - Getting Started

Simply put, Google is the juggernaut of the online marketing world. With a 25% market share of all online advertising and 75% of paid search revenues, they generate over $3 billion in revenue each quarter!

Yet, despite their ubiquity, often as a business's primary advertising vehicle, there is no great way to analyze the dollars being spent on Google advertising. With so many factors contributing to a campaign's success (external and advertiser controlled), it is often a crapshoot on how best to understand, improve, and communicate advertising results.

Tableau Server v1.6 Released - Offers Data Personalization and Easier, Secure Password Management

Good news for people who want to share analytics and collaborate with colleagues over the web. We've just released Tableau Server v1.6 which offers new capabilities regarding user-based filtering, and password and data source management. These enhancements make sharing and collaborating a little easier for everyone - whether you're publishing workbooks and views, consuming those on the web or administering the server itself.

Data Viz Wizards and Wannabes Warmly Welcomed to Tableau's 1st Ever Customer Conference

Save the date - it's Tableau Software's first ever Customer Conference from July 20 to July 22 in our hometown of Seattle, WA!

With a focus on our 10,000+ customers and how they can get more from Tableau, we're planning an event that will be much more than the usual corporate affair...

Eating Our Own Dog Food: Fast Analytics for SalesForce.com

This blog entry is the second in my series on how we are using Tableau to improve the way we run our business. This post will focus on one of our most successful “dogfood-ing” projects: Our use of Tableau with SalesForce.com data. The first half of this post focuses on what types of questions we have been able to ask of SalesForce data and how we’ve used Tableau as a key part of our sales and marketing workflow. The remainder of the post explains how we’ve connected Tableau to SalesForce.com.

Tableau Server Honored to Win WTIA "Business Product of the Year" Award

It's true what they say - it's an honor to be nominated and it's at least as nice to win. Last night, Tableau was honored as "business product of the year" in the 13th Annual Industry Achievement Awards (IAA) sponsored by the Washington Technology Industry Association or WTIA (formerly known as the Washington Software Association). This is our 2nd win in 3 years - and our 3rd consecutive year as a finalist.

NY Times Recognizes the "Center of the Universe" (i.e. the Fremont neighborhood of Seattle)

Did you happen to see the NY Times article "Seattle Taps Its Inner Silicon Valley" that recognizes the growing importance of the Fremont neighborhood of Seattle? As long-time inhabitants of Fremont, the Tableau team has long subscribed to Fremont's self-styled slogan "Center of the Universe." Now, John Markoff, writing in the NY Times' VC Nation column, wrote of Fremont "many communities dream of becoming the next Silicon Valley. This one is actually doing it."

Text Analysis on Election '08 stump speeches

If you've seen the news, you'll know that there are lots of words flying around nowadays -- political speeches, debates, ads, etc. If you're trying to understand the words and decide how to vote, it can be overwhelming. However, if you look at the words as data, you can suddenly get interesting new insights.