The Tableau WannaBe Podcast

This week Matt and Em look back over the women in data month, The Iron Viz Qualifiers, and much more. Good Day, and Good Viz.

SashaRocks There were too many good women to highlight during our data+women month on the podcast, so we have a bonus episode. Emily and Matt were both super excited to talk to Sasha Pasulka of Tableau. Sasha has a varied background and brought an interesting perspective to the show. You can follow Sasha on the Twitter at @sashrocks.

#VizGirlPower On this episode, we talked with Alex Duke of Slalom Consulting. Alex has taken on a lot of awesome projects this year and is a huge proponent of the #datapluswomen initiative. Check out her blog https://duchessofdata.wordpress.com/ for her Women in Tableau series, ReViz Project, Data Plus Women Meetup, as well as really sound visualizations. Peer review, math, stats, & design are her forte. Alex is definitely a good person to have as part of #mydatatribe.

Data+Women Month continues on the podcast and we are delighted to have baseball's biggest fan and Tableau developer, Amy Forstrom, with us on the show. Amy share with us how she found Tableau and what it was like being a dev on stage. Amy turned the tables on us and asked us questions and she provided some good reference material like this link https://www.ted.com/talks/susan_colantuono_the_career_advice_you_probably_didn_t_get?language=en#t-560617 Kelly, Kelly, Kelly... Note: Amy mentioned that Kelly Martin is leaving Tableau to spend more time her family when it's actually Kelly Wright. While Kelly Wright's contributions will be missed, we're happy to have our VizCandy around for hopefully a long time!

Fan of the show and Woman in Data, Emma Whyte comes on the show as our Data+Women Month continues. Emma talks about training tips, her favorite features, & provides her three wishes for Tableau. Emma is smart, studious, & a great contributor to the Tableau community. Check out Emma's work on The Information Lab's site as well as her womanindata blog. http://www.womanindata.co.uk (http://www.womanindata.co.uk/?m=1) Her Top tips for learning http://www.womanindata.co.uk/2016/03/10-top-tips-for-tableau-trainers.html?m=1 http://www.theinformationlab.co.uk/category/blog/

Data+Women+Podcast We're super excited to celebrate Women's History Month by featuring women in data on the podcast. All month long! We have great guest lined up and we kick it off with Fi Gordon aka VizChic. A great example of a women in data with a passion for empowering others. We talk about her background, her blog, and her talk at the Tableau Conference in Sydney. Keep up with Fi on her blog and on twitter: http://www.vizchic.com/ @vizchic

In this episode, we talk and nothing and something! This USDA chart provided fodder for discussion on visualizing missing data and embellishments aka bling. What do you think? Continue the conversation with us! https://twitter.com/jschwabish/status/699622089498759169 https://www.perceptualedge.com/articles/visual_business_intelligence/missing_values_and_incomplete_periods_in_time_series.pdf http://www.visualisingdata.com/2014/04/talk-slides-from-openvisconf-2014-the-design-of-nothing/ https://twitter.com/laneharrison

In this week's episode, Matt & Emily chat about some of the recent happenings in the Tableau world; Data+Women meetups and Gartner Magic Quadrant results. Matt also introduced Emily's new project she is obviously super excited about, A Pop of Color. Check out the upcoming ATL D+W event: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/data-women-tickets-20943435379?aff=eiosprexshreclip&ref=eiosprexshreclip Join the Facebook group for D+W organizers: https://www.facebook.com/groups/650733058402924/ Gartner's Magic Quadrant Report http://get.tableau.com/gartner-magic-quadrant-2016.html A Pop of Color http://www.wannabeawesomeme.com/a-pop-of-color

In this episode, we talk briefly about a trend in the Tableau community; community collaboration projects. We explore four projects in this episode; Data Dare, Data Chain, the ReViz Project, and Makeover Monday. We'll be highlighting these type of projects in future episodes, so if you have a major community collaboration project, let us know so we can include it! Data Dare http://data-dare.com/ Data Chain http://www.data-chain.com/ Reviz http://thevizioneer.blogspot.co.uk/2016/01/the-reviz-project-why-how.html and MakeOver Mondays http://vizwiz.blogspot.co.uk/p/makeover-monday-challenges.html

This week, we chat with Dan Murray about his new book (released this week): *Tableau Your Data 2. *Dan* *offers some insight into what's different about TYD2 and TYD. Dan also shares his three wishes! For more information about Dan's new book (available at all major book sellers) and upcoming book tours, go to: http://tableauyourdata.com/news-press/tableau-your-data-2nd-edition-us-book-tour/

Come and find out who will win a coveted Podcast award and kick off 2016 in style

Matt & Emily discuss visualizing balance sheets based on a Twitter discussion about Stephenie Evergreen's makeover of summary financials. From how the data is displayed to whether one should even change from the text table chart type, we explore some of the practical and philosophical aspects of her challenge which you can find here (http://stephanieevergreen.com/data-viz-challenge-gates-annual-report-financials-page/). Let us know your thoughts too!

This week Emily and Matt look back over 2015, we pick out some of our personal highlights and look at some of the talking points from the last 12 months, including The Tableau Fringe Festival https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYhaq6WGQPwCvrmDBktIH9g TCC15 https://tc15.tableau.com Chad Skeltons blog post on data rules http://www.chadskelton.com/2015/12/in-defence-of-data-visualization-rules.html Stephen Fews Article on bad practice http://www.perceptualedge.com/blog/?p=2154 Ben Jone's response http://dataremixed.com/2015/11/the-backlash-against-data-dogmatism/ The Upshot 3D chart http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/03/19/upshot/3d-yield-curve-economic-growth.html?_r=1

Matt is Shipwrecked and Emily is lost on A desert island. So what do they do? pick their top 5 viz types from Show Me in an homage to Andy^2's webinar on must-have viz types. Don't forget to nominate folks for the 1st Annual Vizzies! http://tinyurl.com/tableaupodcastawards

We chat about the Kantar Information is Beautiful Awards, which can be found here: http://www.informationisbeautifulawards.com/ Matt & Emily also announce the first annual Vizzies; their way of recognizing members of the community. Nominate folks here: http://www.tinyurl.com/tableaupodcastawards Until next week, good day & good viz. M&E