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Dustin Smith

Dustin Smith is a Product Marketing Manager at Tableau Software. When he isn't drinking too much coffee he likes to talk about cloud analytics and Tableau Cloud. You'll also find him hanging out in the Tableau forums or Tweeting about cool Tableau learning materials. As a former Excel addict, Dustin loves nothing more than helping people use Tableau to discover incredible things with their data.
  • Tableau Cloud

    Top 10 Trends in Cloud for 2016

    Dustin Smith December 28, 2015
    In 2015, we saw tremendous growth in cloud technology. Enterprise giants became cloud-relevant, and startups everywhere crowded into the party. Cloud data gained recognition as efficient and cost-effective, and industry players raced to capitalize on a widespread shift to cloud.
  • Tableau Cloud

    Cloud Analytics Roundtable: What You Missed

    Dustin Smith August 11, 2015
    Moving data and analytics to the cloud can be a challenge. Given their variety, there’s no one-size-fit-all approach. Still, the immense benefits of the cloud outweigh those challenges, concluded a recent panel on cloud analytics at the Hotel Zetta in San Francisco.

  • Tackling Survey Data with Informatica Rev and Tableau

    Dustin Smith February 25, 2015
    Survey data doesn't have to be a headache.
  • Tableau Community

    Best of the Tableau Web... August 2014

    Dustin Smith August 29, 2014
    At Tableau, the end of the summer doesn't mean back-to-school, it means back to CONFERENCE! With TC14 right around the corner it's no surprise that there are a ton of great posts this month, chalk full of sweet Tableau gems.
  • Partners

    Why the Unveiling of Google Cloud Dataflow is Great News for Tableau Users

    Dustin Smith June 26, 2014
    The Google I/O announcement everyone is buzzing about is their new data pipeline service. Google Cloud Dataflow means ingesting, transforming, and analyzing big data in the cloud just got a lot easier. Even better, Tableau users already leveraging the power of Google BigQuery will be able to take full advantage of Dataflow to ease their heavy data lifting headaches.

  • Tableau Forums Update: Introducing the LIKE Button and Badges

    Dustin Smith October 4, 2013
    Do you have a favorite Tableau forum thread? Well now you can LIKE it. Do you enjoy earning achievements for answering questions and creating great materials for new users? Good news, you can do that too!

  • Community Alley at the 2013 Tableau Customer Conference

    Dustin Smith September 4, 2013
    Meetups and Photobooths and Zen Masters, Oh My! Community Alley at the 2013 Tableau Customer Conference is back and better than ever. Here is what you can expect...

  • Amazon Redshift and Tableau: Days, not Months, to ROI

    Dustin Smith July 7, 2013
    When you start measuring big data project completion in hours and minutes, you know you're onto something. Amazon Redshift is turning the big data world on its head by allowing anyone to create a fully managed cloud-based data warehouse in minutes. Layer on top of this the ability to directly connect Tableau to Redshift clusters in just a few clicks and you've got a petabyte-scale enterprise data infrastructure that any business user can get visual analytic answers from quickly and easily.

  • Google I/O Measures the Volume of Awesome Using Tableau and BigQuery

    Dustin Smith June 4, 2013
    When Billy Idol took the stage at Google I/O this year, the place went nuts. Let me show you by how much...