Morgan Wierleski

The closing installment of 2014's Best of the Tableau Web series includes tools to help you dashboard better, a piece on what Tableau is NOT, and everything in between. Read on for your monthly dose of Tableau tips, tricks, and chatter from around the web.

Changes in the delivery of healthcare continues to be a leading subject throughout the country. A few Healthcare organizations are using innovative tools, such as Tableau Software, to better understand and react in order to improve healthcare outcomes. Improvement in health outcomes is based on providing better quality care at a reduced cost while still maintaining profitable operations in order to keep hospital and clinic doors open.There are multiple ways that healthcare organizations approach this – sometimes by reducing a patient’s length of stay. However, this can lead to a patient needing to be re-admitted for an unresolved medical issue. Are the long term costs of such an approach more costly than the short-term gains?

Tableau users are taking their organizations (and sometimes their careers) to new heights through innovation, comprehension, and business optimization. Whatever the data, their goals are being achieved with Tableau. 

Each month we will feature one of our Tableau Conference customer speakers in the Speaker Spotlight Q&A. You’ll learn about their past experiences at conference, what they're looking forward to, and gain a brief glimpse into the session they'll be presenting at the Tableau Conference in Seattle, September 8-12, 2014.

This month you'll hear from Dr. Randy Fagin, Chief Administrative Officer for the Texas Institute for Robotic Surgery. Prior to becoming a world-renowned robotic surgeon and healthcare thought leader, Dr. Fagin was a professional magician for 20 years. Outside of his current role managing information & performance for the robotic surgery programs at over 80 hospitals across the country, Dr. Fagin enjoys spending time with his wife, Heather and their two children, Trevor (13) and Sofia (10).

This is a guest post by Kathy Rowell at HealthDataViz. Kathy and her team of healthcare experts help organizations align systems, design reports, and develop staff to communicate healthcare data clearly.

I have watched with great interest as the U.S. Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has made hospital charge data available to the public, and different groups have begun reporting on it. I imagine that many of you share my core feeling about this topic (one that I have long held, and that the publication of this data changed not at all): hospital charges do not reflect the true cost of delivering care. Displaying what these institutions charge without adequate explanation and context is therefore deeply misleading.

Tableau users are taking their organizations (and sometimes their careers) to new heights through innovation, comprehension, and business optimization. Whatever the data, their goals are being achieved with Tableau. 

Each month we will feature one of our Tableau Conference speakers in the Speaker Spotlight Q&A. You'll learn about their past experiences at conference, what they're looking forward to, and gain a brief glimpse into the session they'll be presenting at the Tableau Conference in Seattle, September 8-12, 2014.

In this month's installment of the Speaker Spotlight Series, you'll hear from Chathura Manawadu. By day, Chathura works as a Delivery Manager for market-facing applications at The Coca-Cola Company. By night, you can find him off-roading in his Jeep or snapping photos of the world around him. Check out some of Chathura's photography here.

Tableau users are taking their organizations (and sometimes their careers) to new heights through innovation, comprehension, and business optimization. Whatever the data, their goals are being achieved with Tableau. 

Each month we will feature one of our Tableau Conference speakers in the Speaker Spotlight Q&A. You’ll learn about their past experiences at conference, what they're looking forward to, and gain a brief glimpse into the session they'll be presenting at the Tableau Conference in Seattle, September 8-12, 2014.

Tableau users are taking their organizations (and sometimes their careers) to new heights through innovation, comprehension, and business optimization. Whatever the data, their goals are being achieved with Tableau.
Each month we will feature one of our Tableau Conference speakers in the Speaker Spotlight Q&A. You’ll learn about their past experiences at conference, what they're looking forward to, and gain a brief glimpse into the session they'll be presenting at the Tableau Conference in Seattle, September 8-12, 2014.

As a Seattle native, I'm thrilled that the Tableau Conference is coming "home" this year. It also brings me great joy to feature a local organization in the first 2014 Speaker Spotlight post. Two members of the University of Washington's Enterprise Data & Analytics team, Ann Wunderlin and Bart Pietrzak, will present on one of the largest higher education Tableau deployments. From the initial charter to the rollout and community-building, learn how this team is changing the culture of an entire university by empowering users with their data.

In 48 hours from now I’ll be boarding a flight for San Francisco to join the other 70,000+ salesforce.com customers and Salesforce Live viewers at one of the Big Kahunas in the world of user conferences. I’ll be representing Tableau at Dreamforce 2013—along with the rest of the Tableau Dreamforce crew—and we have an awesome lineup of activities planned for you.

What could be better than an organization devoted to developing vaccine treatment strategies for chronic and emerging viral infections? An organization that does all of the above, faster.