• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar

Datadoodle

  • Subscribe
  • About Datadoodle and me
  • Feedback
  • Special projects
Home » TCC2011

TCC2011

Big BI and the ladder man to come calling at the Tableau conference

August 15, 2011 by Ted Cuzzillo

Howard Dresner is a celebrity in the business intelligence industry, but most people at last year’s Tableau conference didn’t even recognize him when he showed up there.

Who needs BI? Tableau Software liked to think it had left BI behind. BI people, after all, were the control freaks who denied access to data. They sneered at Tableau’s “pretty pictures.” They cared more about data hygiene than data analysis.

But there he was. Stephen Few spotted him in the audience a few minutes into his keynote and paused to wonder if it was really him. Tableau vice president of marketing Elissa Fink welcomed him.… Read the rest “Big BI and the ladder man to come calling at the Tableau conference”

Filed Under: BI industry Tagged With: Claudia Imhoff, events, Howard Dresner, Paul Kedrosky, Tableau, TCC2011, Wayne Eckerson 4 Comments

Primary Sidebar

smarter cities & data narrative

Two recent “storytelling” tools for public audiences Toucan spoonfeeds data’s insight while Juicebox cultivates data skills

The data-shy among us have two friends in the software business. One a few years old and one new this year. Nashville, Tennessee-based Juice Analytics … [Read More...] about Two recent “storytelling” tools for public audiences Toucan spoonfeeds data’s insight while Juicebox cultivates data skills

...and still more

  • This is Datadoodle
  • Civic tech projects need storytellers
  • Democratic pollster: Hillary campaign’s data malpractice
  • Narrative and analytics: brothers
  • Malcolm Gladwell: why oral data’s different

More Posts from this Category

Copyright © 2025 · eleven40 Pro on Genesis Framework · WordPress · Log in

  • Home
  • About Datadoodle and me
  • 2004 to 2019
  • Contact Ted
  • Subscribe