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Microsoft's User Research group has an upcoming study opportunity for business professionals who use Tableau to create charts, graphs, or diagrams, which might be of interest to the members of this group. For more information on how to participate, please visit our facebook page at: ht...tp://www.facebook.com/home.php?#/pages/M
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Tableau Software
Deloitte recognizes Tableau as 132nd fastest growing technology company in the U.S. http://www.tableausoftware.com/blog/tabl eau-ranks-132-deloitte-fast-500
Source: www.tableausoftware.com
We've had a string of good news over the last several weeks - from being on the Inc. 500 list to the ComputerWorld article about the Dallas Cowboys. And now, we've just learned we ranked 132 on Deloitte's annual list of the Technology Fast 500.

John Dawson
Tableau Training from Stephen McDaniel taking place in London Nov 2nd -Nov 4th - just wanted all to be aware - esp European based fans. Full details here: http://www.marketingqed.com/Services.htm l

Tableau Software Visualizing U.S. bank failures... and it's not pretty. Thanks for the analysis, Dan Murray. http://tinyurl.com/ykuvad7 1 day ago
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Dan Murray of Interworks contacted us with some fascinating visualizations of U.S. bank failures using FDIC data. We've publishing those interactively along with Dan's commentary. Enjoy-- unless you own bank stocks.

Jennifer
Tableau and UK Geographical mapping: how to get postcodes - Blogging again: http://jenstirrup.blogspot.com/2009/10/t ableau-can-use-longitude-and-latitude.ht ml

Tableau Software
Article in ComputerWorld tells story of how Tableau's BI visualization tool helps Dallas Cowboys sell more Tony Romo jerseys. Tableau called the "savior". Cool!
http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9 139140 http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9 139140
Source: www.computerworld.com
The Dallas Cowboys expect to sell more than $100 million worth of jerseys and other Cowboys-branded gear, and they are using business intelligence visualization software to do it.

Tableau Software
CBS does it again - check out the interactive viz "Interactive Defense Matchup Tracker". Fantasy Football fans will flip!
http://fantasynews.cbssports.com/fantasy football/story/12294670
Week 4 Interactive Defense Matchup Tracker - NFL Week 4 Interactive Defense Matchup Tracker : Fantas
Source: fantasynews.cbssports.com
The one factor that we always emphasize when analyzing Fantasy Football is how important taking the matchups into account is when managing your team on a week-to-week basis. Now we've given you the ability to analyze all of the weekly matchups with an interactive visualization.

Gregg Lathrop my co-wokrer and I each have 4.1 and everyday we yell over the cubie wall...I really love Tableau! The amount of data that we can look at and change reports with a few clicks saves us so much time its brilliant. Now if there is a way to shade zipcode polygons with your own data like a GIS system...then it would be the best application ever.

Tableau Software
Tableau is hiring. Great software engineers, sales consultants, data analysts and product marketing people should check it out: http://www.tableausoftware.com/about/job s/current
Source: www.tableausoftware.com

Tableau Software
Contextures - really smart site and blog about Excel-based data analysis written by Debra Dalgleish - featured a post about dashboards using Tableau. Debra is a hero to Excel junkies (of which they are many recovering ones at Tableau).
http://blog.contextures.com/archives/200 9/09/16/adrift-in-a-sea-of-numbers/
Source: blog.contextures.com

Tableau Software
Ever wonder about birds in flight versus you in flight? Here's a visual look at "Birdstrike data" from the FAA.
http://www.tableausoftware.com/blog/snar ge
Source: www.tableausoftware.com
Since the FAA released its Bird Strike database last spring, we’ve had a lot of fun working with the data. We put some of the interactive visualizations online at a new site called Snarge so you can play with the data too.

Tableau Software
Great post from Nathan Yau of Flowingdata.com about visualization software. Of course we think Tableau is the best. But Nathan got a good string of comments going.
http://flowingdata.com/2009/09/03/what-v isualization-toolsoftware-should-you-use -getting-started/
Source: flowingdata.com
With all of the available tools to help you visualize data, it can be confusing where to start. The good news is, well, that there are a lot of (free) available tools out there to help you get started. ...

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Attention all football lovers - especially those who are into Fantasy Football. Check out this cool blog entry about Michael Turner of Atlanta. Is he in for a letdown season? History of past favorite running backs suggests it's more than likely. http://fantasynews.cbssports.com/fantasy football/story/12091459
2009 Draft Prep: Is 'The Burner' burnt out? - NFL 2009 Draft Prep: Is 'The Burner' burnt out? : Fant
Source: fantasynews.cbssports.com
Michael Turner is going very early in Fantasy drafts and is being tabbed the second-best Fantasy option behind Adrian Peterson in some circles. Our Jamey Eisenberg provides some telling data that suggests Atlanta's workhorse might be in for a letdown season.

Tableau Software
An Exclusive Look at Bird Strikes. If you fly, this is something worth looking at.
http://crankyflier.com/2009/09/03/an-exc lusive-look-at-bird-strikes/
Source: crankyflier.com
Blog for air travelers on airlines, airports, aviation

Tableau Software Join a 30 minute but information-packed webinar on "Authoring Brilliant Dashboards" Thursday noon Eastern. http://ow.ly/luAs From Tableau through Information Management.
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