Ross Perez

Time to stretch and warm up your viz muscles... the Tableau Sports Visualization Contest is here!

Two years into the Tableau Public experiment, our authors have created thousands upon thousands of amazing interactive visualizations. There are so many, in fact, that we have trouble sharing them all with you. With that in mind, today we are proud to announce Viz of the Day, a once daily feed of beautiful visual stories.

Anya A'Hearn from DataBlick has pulled off the win in the Biz Viz Contest, with her beautiful and controversial view, "The Great Divide".

This is a guest post from Drew Skau, a visualization architect of Visual.ly. Like everything else, the future of data visualization is hard to predict -- but some recent developments can help us see where the field is going. There is also some structure in the field that points to what will change and what will likely stay the same. Here are three trends that are shaping data visualization today -- and will continue to do so in the foreseeable future.

Time to dust off the old mouse and keyboard and prepare for the Tableau Biz Viz Contest!

Today we are releasing a new version of our data reshaper add-in for Excel 2007-2010 (32- and 64-bit). For those who are not familiar with this tool, it’s a free add-in that helps you prepare your Excel files for analysis.

Although it is common knowledge that the big data market is expanding at a significant rate, few if any have endeavored to actually size the market. Luckily, Jeff Kelly from Wikibon dove into the task and has compiled a very interesting list of vendors by big data revenues, as well as a view of the market as a whole.

As you know, at Tableau we have always tried to make products that allow our customers to create visualizations that conform to visual best practices. What's more, we try to make it easy! One area we have not talked much about is the ethics behind visualization, and the reasons behind the best practices we preach.

Product Consultant Andy Cotgreave has been busy at the Gartner BI Summit in London today. As he watched the stream of Tweets fly by him this morning a wave of inspiration struck; it was time to viz!