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The TED Video Viewer

In enjoy watching TED talks and decided to build a Tableau workbook to organize and find videos on specific topics.  A web-embedded version of this workbook was featured on Tableau Software’s blog. 

Do you have a large group of  novice Tableau users?  Want to speed-up their learning and move them quickly from basic to intermediate or advanced skill levels?

InterWorks is now offering intensive Tableau Software 2–day training classes. Available at your location.

Gartner Research released its Magic Quadrant for Business Intelligence Platforms last Friday.  The report was complied using data was collected from (897) user survey responses. For the first time, Tableau Software met all of the criteria for inclusion in the report.

As part of our Federal government’s commitment to greater transparency, The US House of Representatives released its Statement of Disbursements (SOD) in electronic format, late November, covering July 1, 2009 through September 20, 2009.

For you Tablaeu users that are interested in stretching Tableau’s data mapping capability, Joe Mako shared this excellent piece from Clearly and Simply which was written by a very smart lady from Republic of Lithuania  You will find sample Tableau packaged workboo

Yesterday Ted Cuzillo posted an article which outlined the struggle I’ve had coming up with a simple way to explain the value of ad hoc visual analysis.

I’ve attached a pdf of the slide deck that I used for my presentation at Gainesville College this weekend.

Please note that all background images were generously provided by the kind photographers at Flickr Creative Commons.  If you interesting in finding out more about the images, information on the photographer and photo is provided on the final slide.

Atlanta_SQLSat25_DMurraySlideDeck

Friday, Tableau posted some visualizations I created using data from the FDIC on banks and bank failures.  For those of you interested in exploring the data further I’ve attached a packaged workbook with more elaborate views.

For those of you in the Atlanta area who want to learn more about data visualization and see a live demonstration of ad hoc visual analytics, please stop by for my 1:30PM EDT presentation at Gainesville State College in the Science and Techology Building.

I attended the last SQL Saturday event in the spring and the speakers were excellent.

In Parts I, II and III of this series, Building a High Value Low Cost BI Solution,  I addressed some of the practical matters of project definition, database terminology and the the evolutionary method for migrating your data to a data warehouse while also receiving the immediate benefit of a useful visual reporting system.  In this section I'll describe how you can organize data in Excel to create a Star Schema structure that will facilitate analysis with Tableau. &