The Tableau Wannabe Podcast

In this episode, Matt and Emily do their Tableau Talk thanks to the Twitterverse. We talk about a new, but super important project, #vizforsocialgood as well as the topic du jour: data quality. In the highlight action segment, Matt highlights Jonni Walker and Emily walks through a tip for using the apply button in a quick filter. Check out Jonni’s Tableau public profile here:https://public.tableau.com/profile/jonni.walker#!/ Check out the article on data quality here: https://github.com/Quartz/bad-data-guide Check out the apply button tip here: http://www.wannabeawesomeme.com/viz-em/tiny-tableau-tips-for-customizing-the-filter

It's Makeover Monday Mania on the podcast. Kriebel has graced us once again with his presence along with friend of the show, Eva Murray. They talk to us about what's in store for 2017 & discuss data concerns. You can check out Makeover Monday at: http://www.makeovermonday.co.uk/

Emily and Matt looked back on The Tableau world in 2016, and look forward to 2017

Data16 Newbie Recap We started or data16 coverage with a panel to review newbie questions, so it's only fitting we end with a panel discussion from the newbie perspective. Make sure to follow Joel, Sarah, Neil, Nai, and Lorna to see how data16 impacted their work. A special thanks to Mister Paul Chapman for showing up and moderating our fantastic panel.

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times… In this episode, Matt & Emily try to condense their data16 experience to a half an hour. Discussions range from the keynotes to the logistics with a little commentary built in about the faux news reports of being bussed in to the election protest. Here are just a few data16 recap posts, enjoy! http://www.wannabeawesomeme.com/viz-em/get-along-little-data16-doggy https://sarahlovesdata.co.uk/2016/11/13/data16-tales-from-austin-texas/ A two part series from Neil Richards at https://questionsindataviz.wordpress.com/ Next up, the newbies share their data16 experience!

To round off our #data16 recordings we talked to the awesome Gansta CMO Elissa Fink. This recording contains some strong language, we thought we would let Elissa have a bit of fun. Apologies if you are offended in any way.

We talked to new Tableau Chief Development Office Francois Ajenstat at #data16 about all the new toys we have to look forward to.

We chatted to Kiyoto Tamura of Treasure Data to talk about their new platform and how it combines data from everywhere to put into Tableau

We talked to Editorial Manager and all round superstar Matha Kang about her role editing the Tableau blog and her conference experience

We talked to TC favourite Amy Forstrom about the exciting things we saw in Devs on Stage and to find out if she still hates baseball.

We talked to Chief Development Officer at Tableau Software Andrew Beers about the 3 year roadmap, Devs on stage and some more details on the amazing Project Maestro.

Recorded Live at #DATA16 we talked to Zen Master Matt Chambers about his journey starting out with Tableau, his Iron Viz experience and what its like to be a new Tableau Zen Master.

Recorded Live at #DATA16 we talked to Jeff Pettiross about the redesign of the Tableau UI and how to make software beautiful, difference but the same.

Recorded Live at #DATA16 we talked to Tableau Foundations Neal Myrick Find out more about the Foundations work and join the service corps here http://www.tableaufoundation.org/

We’re super excited about #data16 which is right around corner. Conference newbie, Emily Chen asked for a podcast on data16 prep, we made it happen! Take a listen and learn from a panel of conference vets Carl Allchin, Jonathan Drummey, Matt Francis, & Emily Kund, moderated by Emily Chen. Don't forget to plan your sessions & download the app: http://tc16.tableau.com/app Come by the podcast booth (located on the 3rd level of the JW Marriott in the media area). Stay up to date by following our tweets! www.twitter.com/thetwpodcast www.twitter.com/emily1852 www.twitter.com/matt_francis

Vote now for your winners of the 2016 Tableau Podcat Awards at the URL below. http://tinyurl.com/2016vizzies

On this specially extended episode, we talk with someone who has one of the coolest job titles ever; Alberto Cairo, Knight Chair of the University of Miami School of Journalism. We had a great conversation prompted by Zen Master Rody Zakovich @RodyZakovich (https://twitter.com/RodyZakovich) on about the line between infographics and data visualisation. There was just so much good content we decided to exetend the episode rather than split it up. Albertos superb blog is here http://www.thefunctionalart.com/ His new book The Truthful Art is here https://www.amazon.com/dp/0321934075/ref=cm_sw_r_tw_dp_x_YOM2xbPEY0BKZ Links Steven pinker. Sense of style https://www.amazon.co.uk/Sense-Style-Thinking-Persons-Writing/dp/1846145503 Visual loop - need to navigate thru find the gems http://visualoop.com/ NYT http://www.nytimes.com/ WP https://www.washingtonpost.com/ National geographic http://www.nationalgeographic.com/ Wsj http://www.wsj.com/ Pew research center https://www.pewresearch.org (https://www.pewresearch.org/

Favoring the float, Pooja “the butterfly” Gandhi squares off against Tim “the structured beast” Nwgena who represents team tiled. Pooja and Tim discuss why they prefer their method in designing a visualization. Now it's up to you...are you team tiled, do you favor the float, or are you part of the “It depends” party? Links: Tim's Layout Container Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLRfaJ7ZL0cF5WA92d4r6v6PIhnKqu2dEG Pooja's public profile https://public.tableau.com/profile/poojagandhi#!/

This week we chatted about changes at the top at Tableau and what that might mean for the company and the product. We looked at the VOTD all about the National Park Service, RJ Andrews superb video dataviz and an interesting plugin to give a narrative to your dashboards. Enjoy http://www.precisionsourcing.com.au/women-in-data-2/ https://www.narrativescience.com/tableau http://www.tableau.com/Tableau%20_Appoints_Adam_Selipsky_New_CEO?utm_source=Hootsuite&utm_medium=Social&utm_campaign=TableauSocial https://public.tableau.com/en-us/s/gallery/national-parks-economic-impacts http://www.infowetrust.com/parks/ email logos to thetwpodcast@gmail.com

This week we were joined by Viz Chic Fi Gordon to discuss the new features of Tableau 10. We reviewed a Viz of the Day and talked about the Tableau Fringe Festival APAC edition. Submit your talk abstract here https://tableaufringefestival.wordpress.com/2016/08/16/speaker-applications-for-tff-apac/ We also launched the competition to redesign the podcast logo that will be featured on this site, FB, twitter and on signage for our TW Podcast Live at TC16. Email your designs to thetwpodcast@gmail.com