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Tableau Public launches visual analysis for the masses

February 22, 2010

I’m sorry to tell you serious types out there, but visual analysis is often a game — in fact, one of the best games in town with Tableau Software’s visual analysis tool. Now Tableau Public is going to bring it to the masses. In the same way that YouTube spawned a surge of new filmmakers, [...]

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Blog for the times: on high-value, low-cost BI

July 20, 2009

Dan Murray expects to take another step this week in his thrilling rebellion, spreading the word on high value, low cost BI. Though it’s a rebellion and may burn with Che Guevara-type zeal, Dan’s methods actually lean way over toward Darwinian evolution. Revolution is expensive and risky, he writes, while evolution is intelligent and incremental. [...]

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Tableau conference stats

July 20, 2009

Attendance at the Tableau Customer Conference in Seattle, which runs today through Thursday, will be above 300 — versus 187 last year. Tableau Software VP of marketing Elissa Fink says that of the 300, 112 have signed up for Tableau certification training. It’s impressive.

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Thrilling rebellion

July 8, 2009

Dan Murray’s taking on Big BI — and in just under two weeks at the Tableau Customer Conference in Seattle, he’s going to explain his four steps to rebellion — that is, “a high value, low cost BI reporting system.” Dan devised the system when the company he worked for — which had revenue of [...]

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