Any one seen a Tableau viz?

Were you blown away by the fancy colors and lines, shapes,etc…?

–No? Me neither

Why oh why do corporate entities love it so?

Over the next few weeks I will be publishing what visualizing data means to me. I work with data daily for my job. I love database tables and spreadsheets because I can get to the detail and I know what I am looking at.

Executives, the general public–yes not likely

They need to be able to visualize the details in actionable reports

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Most viz’s fail to live up to the promise and leave you thinking you have Excel 2.0

• Tableau Hold ’em Represents a step by step approach to making data actionable, understandable and approachable
• I will have a series of YouTube videos attached to show steps
• The finished product may or may not ever exist
• The point is to expand the idea of what visualizing data can be

I want to break you out of the box of eliciting an Excel/PowerPoint to Tableau conversion of previous solutions

Think about it–if they have a solution today, really why then Tableau?

Instead elicit what the executive or manager actually needs to answer and what is holding them up from solving problems and how they can best consume that information

My hope is that Tableau Hold ’em will spark that discussion