TCC EU 2011- Tableau Server Scaling and Performance Best Practices

With Dan Jewett, VP of Product Management, Tableau (Dan and Stephen previously worked together at Brio in the late 90’s) Some comments are the opinion of Freakalytics and not necessarily those of Tableau This content is live blogged; there may be occasional errors or omissions.     Overview Architecture Hardware Server config Database or data … Read more

Why in-person Complete Tableau training by Freakalytics?

Everyone is busy and overloaded. People find it hard to add new techniques and tools into their daily work due to extensive demands in almost every level of every company. People are trying to do more with less, faster and better! Why should you take off four valuable days to attend Tableau training by Freakalytics? … Read more

The growth of the traditional analytics vendors, 2008-2010 (Gartner and other data sources)

Growth rate Winners- Microsoft, Oracle and IBM Laggards- SAP and SAS Market share Winners- SAP, Oracle and SAS Laggards- IBM and Microsoft Growth combined with market share (using three-year ranks) Winners- Oracle, SAP and Microsoft tied at 2nd Laggards- IBM and SAS From the recent Gartner press release, “There was little change year-on-year in terms … Read more

Quick reference for graph and dashboard design

Freakalytics has published a quick reference for building better graphs and dashboards. The Rapid Dashboards Reference Card has 64 tips readily available on four full-color, laminated pages. The card serves as a handy reference for yourself, your team and even your business audience during design meetings. Page 1 Excerpt, buy it at Amazon Page 3 … Read more

Rapid Dashboards Reference Card- Tip 3 of 64- Chart Colors by Category

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Rapid Graphs for Tableau Software 6 book data download

If you are looking for the complimentary book preview and table of contents, please follow this link. There are three sample datasets used in the Tableau 6 book that are free for anyone to use, but you must be a registered user of our site to access these downloads. Registration connects us with you so … Read more

Rapid Dashboards Reference Card- Tip 2 of 64- Reference Lines

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Rapid Dashboards Reference Card- Tip 1 of 64- Pie Charts

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Join us at the 1st Tableau European Customer Conference!

We hope to see you at the upcoming Tableau Conference in Amsterdam, May 9th-11th.   Amsterdam should be beautiful in early May along with a slate of exciting conference speakers including Stephen Few, Christian Chabot, Chris Stolte, Jock Mackinlay, Elissa Fink, Marc Rueter and other great people from Tableau.   Freakalytics will be teaching our … Read more