The Tableau WannaBe Podcast

This week its Matts turn to be interviewed as Emily asked him about his Data15 on Tour experience. We also had the last of the Tableau Wannabe Podcast on Tour interviews with Emily and Ravi from The Data School

In the next of the Tableau Wannabe Podcast OnTour interviews we talked to Ajay Chandramouly, Director, Analyst Relations at Tableau Software. He told us about his role in ensuring Tableau listens to the market, but also drives it.

the 2nd podcast from #data15, this time we talked to Ashley Jaschke, about cloud computing and Tableau Online and how Tableau is proving SAAS solutions.

In the first podcast from #data15 i was joined by Robert Kosara, we talked about Storytelling with data, the research division and lots more.

You'll recognize her as the voice from TCC, Elissa visits the show to talk about how she found tableau, her 'I can't believe it' moments, & women in data. Emily was super excited to hear from her and you will be too!

Heart sang it best...He's a Magic Man! On this episode, we go behind the viz with Tableau's Magic Man and Senior Technical Evangelist, Andy Cotgreave. We discuss Brinton, the usefulness of checklists, and Zen Master nomination season.

# Back to the Future Part 1 Summer is here and what better way to kick it off with a podcast. Matt and Emily review some viz of the days, talk about what's going on in the twittersphere, & go back to the future by reviewing some vizzes according to a modernized Brinton checklist. Andy Cotgreave introduced us to [Brinton](http://www.slideshare.net/andycotgreave/brinton) and we've been fascinated ever since. We discussed the checklist and applied it to the two vizzes below Franca's [Pay Equality Viz](https://public.tableau.com/views/WomensPayEquality/DashboardWomensPay?:embed=y&:showTabs=y&:display_count=yes) Effects of [Tommy Johns Surgery](http://www.datavizdoneright.com/2015/04/under-knife-effects-of-tommy-john.html) Twittersphere -VTUG -Edward Tufte's [Love Child Tweet](https://twitter.com/EdwardTufte/status/605509903197831168) [http://qz.com/418083/its-ok-not-to-start-your-y-axis-at-zero/](http://www.google.com/url?q=http%3A%2F%2Fqz.com%2F418083%2Fits-ok-not-to-start-your-y-axis-at-zero%2F&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFQjCNFub4NsOKT84fTg3QNVl32YGJEW-A) The [Padawan Dojo](http://padawandojo.tumblr.com/)

In this episode, we're talking about the awesomeness that is the Tableau community. We delve into Emily's http://www.wannabeawesomeme.com/viz-a-viz/weviz-submissions WE Viz event by discussing the vizzes that Jen Vaughan (https://twitter.com/Butterflystory), Franca Higginbotham (https://twitter.com/Franca_DBi) (https://twitter.com/Franca_DBi) , & the one and only Matt Francis developed. Me also sat down and had a little chat with Tracy Fitzgerald (https://twitter.com/FitzTableau), Tableau's Community Strategist. We learned more about Tracy and the new Tableau Community Ambassador initiative. In the next episode, Matt and Emily will be putting a relic of a viz checklist to the test in modern times. Oohhhhh the (super) excitement. We love social media and we love you. So, let us know what you want to hear more of, less of, or specific topics you want us to discuss. We promise Emily will be super excited about it and Matt will have a dramatic sigh. Email : feedback@tableauwannabepodcast.com (mailto:feedback@tableauwannabepodcast.com) Tweet us :https://twitter.com/thetwpodcast Facebook : https://www.facebook.com/tableauwannabepodcast Good Day and good viz Emily & Matt

Dramatic sigh, Andy Kriebel (http://vizwiz.blogspot.com/?m=1) returns. We talk about a recent Viz of the Day by Dash Davidson (http://public.tableau.com/profile/dash7070#!/vizhome/SteamerROSSplitProjection/Story3), Andy's move to The Information Lab (http://www.theinformationlab.co.uk/), his new role as Head Coach of The School of Data, (http://www.theschoolofdata.co.uk/) & Dear Data Two (http://www.dear-data-two.com/), a collaborative project with Jeffrey Shaffer (http://www.dataplusscience.com/). Next in the lineup...We chat about Viz of the Days & the various Tableau Topics Du Jour. We love social media and we love you. So, let us know what you want to hear more of, less of, or specific topics you want us to discuss. We promise Emily will be super excited about it and Matt will have a dramatic sigh. Email : feedback@tableauwannabepodcast.com Tweet us :https://twitter.com/thetwpodcast Facebook : https://www.facebook.com/tableauwannabepodcast Good Day and good viz Emily & Matt

A Visit from the CEO We were super excited and fortunate to have Tableau's CEO, Christian Chabot, join us for a discussion! We talked about bootstrapping the company, women in data, living in London, and more. There simply was not enough time to ask him all the questions we (and you) wanted. Side note: Doesn't always seem to happen that you've been recording your podcast and the audio has been really good and then it cuts out at the end? Argh. Love you, technology! It also happens that Christian joined us soon after V9 was released so we had a super small discussion about V9 and the performance improvements as well as some reference materials for level of detail (LOD) calculations, which are below (shout out to Jonathan Drummey for passing these along)! Into to LOD : http://www.tableau.com/about/blog/2015/2/introduction-level-detail-expressions-36655 LOD White Paper : https://www.tableau.com/learn/whitepapers/understanding-lod-expressions Top 15 LOD Expressions : http://www.tableau.com/LOD-expressions Tableau Server v8 vs. v9 Shootout : http://tableaulove.tumblr.com/post/116103003160/tableau-server-v8-vs-v9-shootout Craig Bloodworth Tutorial https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BnSF6i4MW0E We think Matt is done taking holidays, so we can get back to more podcasting, yay! We love social media and we love you. So, let us know what you want to hear more of, less of, or specific topics you want us to discuss. We promise Emily will be super excited about it and Matt will have a dramatic sigh. Email : feedback@tableauwannabepodcast.com Tweet us :https://twitter.com/thetwpodcast Facebook : https://www.facebook.com/tableauwannabepodcast Good Day and good viz Emily & Matt

Jewel Loree stopped by to chat viz with us and we picked up some insight from the pop vizard herself. We chatted about two recent viz of the days by Gina Bremer at Payscale and Sarah Stone of the Texas Rangers. Links : PayScale ROI http://www.tableau.com/public/gallery/mapping-college-roi Texas Rangers?https://public.tableausoftware.com/profile/sstone703#!/vizhome/2014GlobeLifeParkinArlingtonFoulBalls/RangersGames Steve Wexler http://www.datarevelations.com/its-your-data-not-the-viz-thats-boring.html Hans Roslin Ted Talk https://www.ted.com/speakers/hans_rosling Ched Skelton Tapestry Talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ik-mr-0LPOg Golden Idols : http://goldenidols.net/ Tableau Sub Redit http://www.reddit.com/r/tableau/ We love social media and we love you. So, let us know what you want to hear more of, less of, or specific topics you want us to discuss. We promise Emily will be super excited about it and Matt will have a dramatic sigh. Email : feedback@tableauwannabepodcast.com Tweet us :https://twitter.com/thetwpodcast Facebook : https://www.facebook.com/tableauwannabepodcast Good Day and good viz Emily & Matt

When Sarah's around, you know you'll have fun and learn something in the process. To kick off Women's History Month, we're fortunate enough to have Sarah Nell join us. We talked about Tableau's position in the industry, pink & blue, highlighted a couple of vizzes, & briefly chatted about starting & maintaining TUGs (spoiler alert: it's hard but rewarding work). Links : Tableau Reviews: http://snip.ly/UNyx?__0OySA_=0OySA#http://blog.itcentralstation.com/top-bi-tools-2015-edition/ Andy Kirks Blog on Pink and Blue: http://www.visualisingdata.com/index.php/2015/02/lets-think-blue-pink/ Visual.ly Weight of the World : http://visual.ly/weight-world Cross Country Paragliding VOTD http://www.tableau.com/public/gallery/paragliding-uk We love social media and we love you. So, let us know what you want to hear more of, less of, or specific topics you want us to discuss. We promise Emily will be super excited about it and Matt will have a dramatic sigh. Email : feedback@tableauwannabepodcast.com Tweet us :https://twitter.com/thetwpodcast Facebook : https://www.facebook.com/tableauwannabepodcast Good Day and good viz Emily & Matt

Nothing Says VizLove Like Assless Chaps and Tableau Public Not fully recovered from the attack of the Viz Ninja, Matt & Emily are gobsmacked by Kelly Martin's executive dashboard post! We also shared some vizlove for the VOTD clarification post by Ben Jones, preview the new Tableau Public Beta, and Isabel's Weather Homework. Links The new Tableau public beta site http://public.tableau.com/s/ Whats new in Tableau Public? http://public.tableau.com/s/blog/2015/02/whats-new-pretty-much-everything Whats VOTD about? http://www.tableau.com/public/blog/2015/01/viz-day-dialog-2752 Isabels Weather Homework http://public.tableau.com/s/gallery/isabels-weather-homework Kelly Martins search for Executive Dashboards http://vizcandy.blogspot.co.uk/2015/02/the-elusive-executive-dashboard.html Dynamic Parameter Feedback http://www.tableau.com/about/blog/2015/1/top-idea-request-for-feedback-dynamic-parameters We love social media and we love you. So, let us know what you want to hear more of, less of, or specific topics you want us to discuss. We promise Emily will be super excited about it and Matt will have a dramatic sigh. Email : feedback@tableauwannabepodcast.com Tweet us :https://twitter.com/thetwpodcast Facebook : https://www.facebook.com/tableauwannabepodcast Good Day and good viz Emily & Matt

We tried to prepare, but can one ever really prepare for the attack of the VizNinja? We welcomed the fantastic Paul Banoub to the podcast. We chat about what we've seen on Twitter including Andy Cotgreave's post on his seven years with Tableau, Jonathan Trajkovic's Charlie Hebdo viz, and Ben Jones's posts about avoiding data pitfalls. We love Paul's 2 Minutes With posts and wanted to turn the tables on him! Paul also talks about his three pillars for identifying a great tool to adopt and when it's appropriate to implement a Center of Excellence (COE). And of course, Paul discussed his three wishes for Tableau and data viz. We had such a blast talking with him that we ran out of time! We'd definitely love to have him back on the show to talk about his Tableau Public work. If you don't already, put his blog in your RSS Reader and follow him on Twitter for some fun and wise advice! We love social media and we love you. So, let us know what you want to hear more of, less of, or specific topics you want us to discuss. We promise Emily will be super excited about it and Matt will have a dramatic sigh. Email : feedback@tableauwannabepodcast.com Tweet us : @thetwpodcast Facebook : Like us here Good day & good viz, Matt & Emily

Welcome back listeners, hope you had a good holiday. On this week's podcast we look back over our highlights of 2014 and we look forward and talk about what we want to see happen to Tableau and dataviz in 2015. We discuss the maxims and sins that were recently published by Dan Murray and Drew Skau as well as discuss rule on axes starting at zero (based on a conversation that Jon Schwabish and Cole Nussbaumer had). And we touch on the goodness that is Tableau V9 Beta. Links Dan Murray's 10 Tableau Maxims https://www.interworks.com/blogs/dmurray/2015/01/08/10-tableau-maxims Drew Skau's 7 Cardinal Sins of Chartmaking http://blog.visual.ly/7-cardinal-sins-of-chartmaking Cole Nussbaumer and Jon Schwabish discuss the non zero axis issue http://www.storytellingwithdata.com/2015/01/jon-and-i-chat-about-non-zero-baselines.html Joshua Milligan's LOD Calculation http://vizpainter.com/my-favorite-tableau-9-0-feature/ Craig's LOD video http://youtu.be/BnSF6i4MW0E We'd love to hear from you, what are your wishes for 2015, what do you think about the non-zero axis debate? Let us know!! Email : feedback@tableauwannabepodcast.com Tweet us :https://twitter.com/thetwpodcast Facebook : https://www.facebook.com/tableauwannabepodcast