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Ellie Fields

Ellie Fields is the Senior Vice President of Product Marketing at Tableau, responsible for new product launch, Tableau's community and Tableau Public. Her data geek credentials come from time served in technology and finance companies. She’s seen a lot of ugly data, beautiful data, and downright mean data. She’s a passionate believer that data used well can inform great discussions. She has an engineering degree from Rice University and an M.B.A. from The Stanford Graduate School of Business.

  • Driving Transformation with Mobile Analytics at Supervalu

    Ellie Fields February 19, 2013
    “Imagine you’re walking around the distribution center, you’re visiting with people, you have rush orders, you have planned orders, full truckloads, partial truckloads, and you’ve got all that data at your disposal right now to see what’s going in, what’s going out, what your labor levels are in the warehouse—all that kind of stuff," says Wesley Story, Supervalu’s Group Vice President of Consumer Insights and Loyalty.

  • State of Maine Sees Labor Improvement in Data

    Ellie Fields December 19, 2012
    The State of Maine's Department of Labor has taken transparency to a new level. Not only are they making information on unemployment, education and more available online, they're doing it visually and interactively.

  • Masters. Teachers. Innovators. Meet the Tableau Zen Masters.

    Ellie Fields November 8, 2012

    On Wednesday on the main stage at TCC a select and special group of people walked across the stage. They are the first class of Tableau Zen Masters, members of the community who are masters of Tableau and of the principles of information design, teachers to others and innovators. And they capture the spirit of questioning and helping that is at the heart of the Tableau community.


    Who are these extraordinary people? Glad you asked.

  • Your Ideas: Heard, Considered and Now in Beta

    Ellie Fields November 6, 2012
    One of the most exciting parts of the Tableau community is the Ideas site. This is where customers tell us what they want and dream up radical new ideas. Customer, partners and Tableau folks discuss the merits of these ideas and different ways to do them. It’s become a great space for collaborating with customers.

  • Tableau 7.0.9: Chinese, Korean, Congressional Districts, and SAP HANA

    Ellie Fields October 25, 2012
    With apologies for the overly descriptive title for this post, I'm happy to announce that as of this evening, Tableau 7.0.9 is available. This release includes some important features.

  • Nothing less than Epic

    Ellie Fields October 24, 2012
    Tableau has been at the Teradata Partners Conference this week, chatting about big data and meeting with customers. And last night Teradata presented Tableau with the Epic Award for Collaborative Revenue for being the fastest-growing Teradata partner.

  • What is the Human Face of Big Data?

    Ellie Fields October 1, 2012
    You may have seen buzz about The Human Face of Big Data lately in The New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, or in AllThingsD. What is that exactly? It’s a lot of things. It’s a new book by photojournalist Rick Smolan, who is famous for A Day in the Life books. The book covers stories about how big data has touched our lives and its growing impact. The book will be available in November.

  • A New Whitepaper for IT

    Ellie Fields September 12, 2012
    Looking for the essential overview of Tableau for IT Managers? Last month we published Tableau for the Enterprise: An Overview for IT. In it you can find answers to questions such as:

  • Tableau Now Localized into Japanese

    Ellie Fields August 7, 2012
    Today, with the release of Tableau 7.0.7, Tableau Desktop and Server are available in Japanese. This video (in Japanese) walks through the Japanese user interface: