Candice Vu April 1, 2024 - 10:43pm Sanjeev Verma Product Management Senior Manager In today's data and AI-driven world, it’s important to have the right tools to navigate and analyze vast data sources. Data Connect is a new add-on offering designed to empower IT teams to scale on-premises and virtual private cloud data access in Tableau Cloud while reducing the burden on IT. Data Connect offers a streamlined and remotely-operated approach to connecting to your on-prem data. This blog introduces Data Connect, sharing how it works and explaining the shared responsibility model it operate ..read more

Ateken Abla March 19, 2024 - 9:05pm Larissa Amoroso Vice President, Tableau Community, Tableau When Karolina Grodzinska took the stage at Tableau Conference as part of her Iron Viz: Student Edition award, it felt like the culmination of her data learning, which started in 2021. Countless hours vizzing, a standout Tableau Public profile, and a graduate degree later, Karolina reflects on her data journey and what led her to her current role as a Business Intelligence Analyst at Schneider Electric.   Winning Iron Viz: Student Edition is no small feat. This annual competition, host ..read more

Paul Goethel March 12, 2024 - 4:14pm Andy Cotgreave Senior Technical Evangelist, Tableau at Salesforce When I downloaded Tableau Desktop in 2007‌—I was a data analyst at the University of Oxford then—little did I suspect the impact it would have on my career. That first download led to so many amazing experiences, including starting work at Tableau in 2011. I was lucky to be there at the start of many key moments in Tableau’s history.  Join me as I look at highlights and lessons anyone can take along on their own data journey.   Grow data skills with User Groups In 2009, I was ..read more

Tanna Solberg October 13, 2020 - 9:19pm Courtney Totten Director, Academic Programs We use data everyday for our jobs and in our daily lives. Whether you’re optimizing your sales organization or researching climate change, understanding data is a key ingredient for success.  Although most people are familiar with the current trend of growing amounts of data, there is a skills gap in data literacy - defined as the ability to explore, understand, and communicate with data. Filling the data literacy gap is crucial, particularly since data skills are now a prerequisite for many jobs and ev ..read more

Kathleen VanDerAa March 7, 2024 - 10:47pm Kate VanDerAa Every March, we celebrate women who have educated us, inspired us, led us, and significantly impacted the direction of society during Women's History Month. In the age of data-driven insights, it's fitting to explore how data visualization can be a powerful tool in telling the stories of women's achievements, struggles, and progress. Explore this selection of data visualization from the Tableau Community to learn something new, interact with women-focused data, and spot patterns, trends, and outliers. Don’t forget to star your favori ..read more

Candice Vu February 19, 2024 - 11:17pm Matthew Miller Senior Director, Product Management With the evolution of voice-based assistants, chat bots, and generative AI assistants, it’s becoming ever more clear that interacting with technology via natural language prompts is here to stay. Tableau has been on a long journey to provide natural language interfaces for analytics. We believe strongly in this capability because it lowers the barrier to entry for new users, and we believe that data is for everyone.  We are truly excited about Tableau Pulse, launched in a wide beta in December ..read more

Kathleen VanDerAa February 13, 2024 - 7:06pm Dzifa Amexo Tableau Ambassador Hello, love! My name is Dzifa Amexo and I am a Tableau Social Ambassador and co-lead the BLK in D&A, NYC, and FinServ Tableau User Groups. My Tableau journey has been fueled by focusing on topics that are personally interesting to me whether it be around pop culture or personal quantifiable data. At the end of 2022, I embarked on a personal project to track my dating experiences throughout the year, leading to a laugh-out-loud visualization that captured a rollercoaster of emotions. From the exhilarating hig ..read more

Kristin Adderson January 25, 2024 - 11:21pm Harveen Kathuria Senior Director, Product Management Tableau has been on the journey to help people see and understand their data for over two decades. Thanks to data analysts, this mission has been a success and will continue to be a success. Data analysts are the backbone of organizations that champion data culture, capture business requirements, prep data, and create data content for end users.  Data analysis and data-driven decision-making have been part of the vocabulary in organizations over the years. And, while data analysis is one ..read more

Candice Vu January 8, 2024 - 8:33pm Drew Loika Product Management Director In today's ever-evolving data landscape, the tools that aid in deciphering and navigating vast data sources and data sets are paramount. Tableau Bridge has emerged as a trusted ally for businesses harnessing the capabilities of Tableau Cloud. Tableau Bridge is a complementary, supported client tailored to bridge the gap between your private network data and Tableau Cloud, a cloud-based platform that helps enterprises quickly scale powerful analytics. As the demand for data access surges, Tableau Bridge permits the de ..read more

Kristin Adderson December 19, 2023 - 7:38pm Zach Bowders Tableau Visionary and Tableau Ambassador, Business Intelligence Specialist Zach Bowders, MBA is a data analyst, artist, and host of the Data+Love Podcast. View Zach’s data viz portfolio on Tableau Public—including several visualizations on movies. When I was a kid we owned two movies, and both starred Dan Aakryod. One was a spooky supernatural comedy (that scared the heck out of me but I loved it anyway), and the other was a chaotic musical about two blues musician brothers. It was the mid ‘80s, I lived in the country, and we didn ..read more