Martha Kang

Happy International Women’s Day! This year, the day’s focus is on global gender party. So just how bad is the gender wage gap? Here’s a look at the data through Tableau Public vizzes.

Andy Kriebel and Jeffrey Shaffer live an ocean apart. But for the past 10 months, the two have been corresponding by postcards each week—all for the love of data. Every week, they each collect data based on the week’s theme. Then they each visualize the findings by hand on a postcard and mail it to the other.

We want to wish you a merry Christmas! And what better way to spread holiday cheer than with a gift of vizzes? Here are two advent calendars that are chock full of the holiday spirit.

It was the 20 tensest minutes of all of Tableau Conference. Three of the world’s preeminent data artists gathered in Viz Stadium at the MGM Grand. Shine Pulikathara, Matt Chambers, and Skyler Johnson had all come to claim the same coveted glory. But as host Ross Perez made clear, “only one can walk away with the prize”—$2,000 and the title of Iron Viz Champion.

Here’s proof that Tableau Zen Masters are much more than data viz whizzes. As part of our back-to-school series, we asked our Zen Masters to share tips for our community of data explorers. And what we got in return was a wealth of wisdom that range from data tips to life lessons. Here are their insights, which can benefit all of us—as data explorers and as human beings.

For most of his career, Dave Story has been chasing the same idea: “making computers bring out the best in humans.” Dave is especially keen on using visual tools to augment the human brain. This fascination has taken him from Silicon Graphics (SGI) to Adobe, to Lucasfilm, to Tableau, with many stops in between. “They say two-thirds of the world is wired to think visually. I’m definitely one of those people,” Dave says.

Two years ago, Vente-Exclusive found itself overwhelmed with data. It had billions of data points on customer behavior, email campaigns, and shipping logistics, but it had no way to gain timely insights. Vente-Exclusive found a solution in Google Cloud Platform, a family of products on a pay-as-you-go model. But it still had a missing link: how to present the data to business users who don’t have any SQL knowledge?

Here's a roundup of the best of the Tableau web for the month of June, including a Star Trek game made with Tableau, and a dashboard of a family tree.

As with many other social and political issues, data is a powerful tool for adding perspective. Here are several compelling vizzes from the Tableau community that show how this divisive issue has evolved over the years.