After taking a road trip, most people are less than eager to develop their photos (or download them). A select few may download them and post them to their blog or flickr. But only Dave Ward has used Tableau Public to create an interactive "see what I saw when I was here" app. Click into the image below to link out to the live viz.

In the first six months of this year Tableau Public visualizations were viewed 4.5 million times. Of course, this statistic reflects upon the amazing authors that continually post content to Public. In honor of those authors and to celebrate the success of Tableau Public, we have made the visualization below, showing the top 100 Tableau Public views by traffic. Take a look and as always, interact!

Today Linda Briggs over at TDWI posted an article, Q&A: Zynga Stresses Visual Access to Its Vast Data Volumes, about her Q&A session with Ken Rudin, Director of Analytics for Zynga Games. Ken has a deep analytics background and is well-known in the business intelligence world.

Now in his capacity with Zynga, he has an incredibly interesting environment to solve a key strategic task - he's got Tableau on top of one of the world's largest data warehouses (which happens to be built by Vertica) to help the Zynga team make their games even more successful. They're probably most well-known for their Facebook games like Farmville (personally, I'm a huge fan of Scramble on the iPhone).

From "Highest Grossing Movies" and "The Greatest Basketball Players of All Time" to "Mobile Network Data Performance" and "History of the World Cup", check out our visual news stories.

Traffic is the enemy of nearly every city dwelling American. Efforts to promote "green" commutes and reduce congestion have attracted significant attention for years, but one only has to commute home to see how effective they have been. This visualization shows that every major city in the US has suffered increased congestion in the years since 1982. Click on your hometown in the list below to see how public transit ridership and congestion have changed over time.

Kyle Biehle is an unabashed sports fanatic and data nerd. Needless to say, we are fans of his blog, The Ivory Sofa. The following is a visualization that Kyle made attempting to quantify the greatest basketball player of all time. Click around and see if you agree with his findings.

Robert Morton is creating cool vizzes faster than we can post them! Here is his latest view, which visualizes The Top 500 supercomputing sites, as identified and ranked in a biannual list by Top500.org. Select a topic from the table of contents below.

PC Magazine recently evaluated the data network performance of a number of wireless carriers in cities across the US. The full story shows how widely performance varies, as illustrated below. While AT&T wins the best combination of coverage and performance, it faces clear competition from Sprint's 4G network rollouts and T-Mobile's upgrades to HSPA+.

These are the words of Robert Morton, one of Tableau's software engineers. Check out his informative visualization below.

There's another new release of Tableau - 5.2. For all the details, see our "New Features" web page.

With this release, we've enhanced our maps with new styles and more detailed international maps and we've added new data connections.

The world’s best soccer teams meet in South Africa this Friday as the 2010 FIFA World Cup begins. Spain, Brazil, and Argentina are the favorites, but, before playing your bets, it only makes sense to look back on past tournaments. Explore your country’s opponents by using the "group" selector below, or just hover over a country of interest.