Tableau Customer Conference Wrap-Up

Greetings!

 

The 2013 Tableau Customer Conference just wrapped-up this week in Washington, DC. As usual, Christian Chabot (Tableau Co-Founder and CEO) and Chris Stolte (Tableau Co-Founder and CDO) delivered a fantastic keynote address.

Tableau has integrated some exciting new features into the upcoming

release of Tableau Desktop and Tableau Server. Ellie Fields (Senior

Director at Tableau) summarized a few of the features that were shared/demonstrated by the Tableau Development Team during the

keynote address:

1. Seamless access to data

• Data connection interface
• Visual joins
• Dateparse function (increased flexibility with date formats)
• Easier metadata

2. Visual analytics for everyone

• Boxplot
• Percentiles as a new aggregation
• Forecasting improvements- and new prediction bands
• Ranking
• New totals- two-pass totals
• Revolution R integration

3. Fast, easy, beautiful

• Folders in the data window (group dimensions and measures into folders)
• Transparency setting for titles, legends, logos
• Formatted quick filters to match font and colour palette in visualization
• Better presentation mode (centers the visualization/dashboard)
• Calendar control (pop-up calendar view of date filters)
• ‘Apply’ button in filter (control when the filter gets applied – improves dashboard speed)
• Copy/paste dashboards and sheets between workbooks

4. Storytelling: “Story points” - a GREAT new feature to help you organize views in a story flow. Seamlessly guides a viewer through your dashboards and visualizations.

5. Enterprise

• Improved performance & scalability
• External load balancers
• 64bit- server and desktop
• SAML- single sign-on for Desktop and Server
• ipv6

6. Visual analytics everywhere

• Tableau Online
• Web authoring enhancements: moving quick filters, iPad improvement, color encoding
• Tableau on the Mac in v8.2

To see a recording of the keynote, please visit:

http://www.tableausoftware.com/keynote

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Course Title: Becoming a Tableau Desktop Power User

Solution: Tableau Desktop

Course Duration: 1 Day

 

Course Description:

This one day course is designed to provide you with the skills to help make the leap to becoming a Tableau power user. The course is designed for the professional who has active working experience with Tableau and wants to take it to the next level. Participants should have a prior understanding of all the fundamental concepts of building worksheets and dashboards.

 

Prerequisites: Tableau Fundamentals

 

Learning Objectives:

• Build advanced chart types and visualizations
• Build better dashboards using techniques for guided analytics, interactive dashboard design and visual best practices
• Implement advanced geographic mapping techniques
• Tips/tricks on manipulating data with calculations
• Work with parameters and input controls
• Implement all options in working with data: Joining multiple tables, data blending, performance considerations and working with the Data Engine
• Implement many efficiency tips and tricks

Offered Formats*: Classroom and Online

 

*In the Classroom offering located at CRGroup Headquarters in Ottawa, Canada, the participants will be given access to Tableau Desktop and sample data. In the Online Classroom offering, the participants must have access to Tableau Desktop on their own environment along with the standard Tableau sample test data that comes pre-packaged with the installation.

 

If you have any questions or want more information, please feel free to contact us anytime:

 
Email: tironstone@crgroup.com

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Cheers,

Thomas

Thomas Ironstone, MBA

Business Solutions Consultant