TCCEU13 Tableau Speed Challenge: An Inspiring Experiment
A few months ago, during a marketing round table, The Information Lab team wanted to communicate just how fast and easy it was to use Tableau Desktop. Ideas were thrown around leading to bringing a speed challenge to the Tableau Customers Conference 2013 in London, which took place last week. Working in a company that not only loves the Tableau product but is also inspired by it, we weren’t happy with just noting down times but instead had a customised ‘Top Gear’ style scoreboard built. But how would people do? We tried it out internally and started seeing times of 90s,...
Read MoreDay 2 of TCCEU13: What’s the future for Tableau?
As we’re coming to the close of day 2 of the Tableau Customer European Conference (see the twtter hashtag #tcceu13) we wanted to upate you guys on what we can expect from Tableau in the near future.
Read MoreJust how quick can you Tableau?
So everybody knows Tableau is fast at creating dashboard right? And everybody know just how much Tableau customers love the software and how easy it is to use? This week at the Tableau Customer Conference in London (#TCCEU13) The Information Lab decided to quantify this by running a speed test. Just how quickly can you create a three part dashboard? A few weeks ago Beverly posted all the details about the challenge (which you can find here) and by the looks of tweets we’ve been getting people have been practising ever since. What do you think the fastest time will be? Whether...
Read MoreWhy The Information Lab Loves Tableau
At the last Tableau Conference in San Diego The Information Lab’s founder Tom Brown was dragged into a room, had a bright light shone in his face and interviewed about why he and The Information Lab love working with Tableau.
Read MoreUK Area Polygon Mapping in Tableau
Ever since Tableau introduced filled maps in version 7 we’ve repeatedly been asked about filled maps in the UK and why it’s limited to just England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. Our understanding is there are two main reasons. First is installation size and keeping Tableau as lean as possible. I don’t know if you’ve notices but for such a small country the UK is split into many different areas. Even if you just take the first one or two letters of the postcode as a grouping method there are 124 different shapes covering the country! That compares to only 50 states to cover the whole...
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