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Diane Camber

Diane Camber is a senior software engineer at Tableau where she works on customer cases for the sustaining team. She has taught writing at the University of Washington, and at all of the Seattle Colleges: North, South, and Central. She received a Master of Arts degree in political science from the University of Washington where she studied editorial journalism, social statistics, and economics.

  • Visualizing the Army’s Global Supply Chain with Tableau

    Diane Camber September 11, 2013
    In recent history the Army has relied on Powerpoint presentations for management of staff and equipment throughout the military’s global supply chain. Now that the Army is winding down the decade-long war in Afghanistan this effort involves moving an enormous quantity of vehicles, weapons, and other hardware and supplies back to United States Army bases.

  • Silver Advises Visualizing Rich Data Through Trial & Error in the Real World

    Diane Camber September 10, 2013
    Nate Silver made a convincing case at his keynote address for thinking probabilistically and the necessity to be alert to biases that could cloud the vision of a successful data analyst. He emphasized the importance of keeping an open and nimble mind in a changing data landscape.

  • Tips & Tricks from the Wild at TCC12

    Diane Camber November 8, 2012
    TCC Data viz wizard Andy Cotgreave MC'd the Tips & Tricks in the Wild session on Wednesday afternoon. Topics amongst the four speakers ranged from speeding ticket data to automation using Tableau's command line tool tabcmd. The Tips & Tricks breakout session was so popular it had to be moved to a larger room to accomodate the crowd.