This week I did a talk at DePaul University in downtown Chicago. It was an exciting visit as the NFL Draft stage was being prepared in Grant Park off of South Michigan Avenue. Our Chicago team leader, Charlie Sanders joined me for this visit. My good friend Rina Bongsu-Petersen arranged the meeting which also included… Read more »
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A Complete View of Tableau Delivered Thoughtfully
I have been using Tableau at work for about 5 months and relying on their online tutorials, which are quite good, to perform given tasks. I also have another Tableau book, so I did not think I needed anything else, but the author spoke at our Tableau Users Group earlier this month and his talk… Read more »
Boston TUG featuring Dan Murray Recap [Tableau Community]
Recap and pictures from Jan 28 Boston TUG event at Broad.
Letter from the Author
During the past seven years we’ve accumulated a considerable amount of experience working on Tableau deployments in nearly every major vertical market. Some of those clients had no knowledge of data visualization best practices, database architecture, or SQL–but they saw a “very cool” demonstration of Tableau in action and felt it could help them make… Read more »
Tableau Your Data is clear and concise
If you need a great reference for starting with Tableau this is it. I work at Tableau and picked up this book to read on my commute. I have picked up new tips and tricks every day. I highly recommend this book! — K. Schultz “Bug”
A Must Have for all Tableau fanatics
This book is an excellent guide for a beginner or advanced user in Tableau. Dan Murray clearly lays out how Tableau works, and how it can work for you. It is easy to go back and refer to sections as you work with the software. If one is a novice with Tableau Software, just stepping… Read more »
As Beautiful and Easy as the Visualizations You Will Create
Dan is the master! As one of the longest and most steadfast partners of Tableau he has seen all the use cases and solved all the business challenges presented by users. And, he has brought them all together in this one book to help the rest of the future Tableau users gain the same insight… Read more »
Best Tableau book out there!
I was a consultant at Tableau for 30 months, and, have been an independent BI consultant for 15 years. I have every Tableau book written. This one is, absolutely, the best book, reference guide, examples, tips, tricks, etc. ever written, for Tableau. It fully covers both Desktop and Server, theory, installation and use, Chapter 12, real… Read more »
A must have for Tableau v 8.0
I pre-ordered this book last year and it did not disappoint. I have been working with Tableau for a while now and also have a deep, technical business intelligence background. I feel Dan’s book is great for BOTH business users that want to get a solid foundational skillset in Tableau v 8.0 and also techies/consultants… Read more »
Tableau Your Data! shows you how to build dynamic, best-of-breed visualizations using the Tableau Software toolset.
