Best of the Tableau Web: December 2013

Welcome to the final 2013 Best of Tableau Web, looking back at December's blogging content. For those of you who aren't yet blogging, I hope they inspire you to start. January's the right time to start: it's the Tableau Public Blogging Month! As always you can follow me on twitter (@acotgreave) if you want to hear about these posts the moment they are published.

• Drawing with Numbers Building Life in Tableau – by Noah Salvaterra

• Wannabe Awesome Me Identity Crisis [I really recommend you read this one - it's a great thought piece - Andy]
• Data Jedi Ninja Quality Father and Son (and Tableau) time

• The Information Lab Localisation in Tableau
• Drawing with Numbers Not a funnel cake, nor funnel charts, it’s funnel plots!
• The Information Lab Tableau file types and extensions -
• The Vizioneer Using Tableau for your next PowerPoint Deck
• InterWorks, Inc. Three Underused Features of Tableau 8 and 8.1
• The Information Lab Understanding Table Calcs using Index(
• VizWiz Tableau tip: Don’t waste the ends of your sparklines…make them actionable!

• Eye See Data FIFA World Cup History
• Jewel Loree » Pop Viz: America’s Regional Tastes
• Mike Ditka A Look Back On A Chicago Bears Legend
• OpenBI My Kids are Too Sweet & Too Salty

• Tableau Love #Tableau Server XML Information Files: The Master Class - Part 2
• Tableau Love #Tableau Server XML Information Files: The Master Class - Part 3
• Customizing the Tableau Server experience (Part 1.5)

• Drawing with Numbers Comparing Each Against Each Other: The No-SQL Cross Product
• Ryan Robitaille Connecting Tableau to ElasticSearch (READ: How to query ElasticSearch with Hive SQL and Hadoop)
• See-Change Solutions Pty Ltd Connecting Tableau to SAS Datasets via the SAS OLE DB Provider :

That should keep you going for another month. Let me know what you think and how we can improve these lists on twitter (@acotgreave).

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