The Tableau Wannabe Podcast

Come and find out who will win a coveted Podcast award and kick off 2016 in style

Matt & Emily discuss visualizing balance sheets based on a Twitter discussion about Stephenie Evergreen's makeover of summary financials. From how the data is displayed to whether one should even change from the text table chart type, we explore some of the practical and philosophical aspects of her challenge which you can find here (http://stephanieevergreen.com/data-viz-challenge-gates-annual-report-financials-page/). Let us know your thoughts too!

This week Emily and Matt look back over 2015, we pick out some of our personal highlights and look at some of the talking points from the last 12 months, including The Tableau Fringe Festival https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYhaq6WGQPwCvrmDBktIH9g TCC15 https://tc15.tableau.com Chad Skeltons blog post on data rules http://www.chadskelton.com/2015/12/in-defence-of-data-visualization-rules.html Stephen Fews Article on bad practice http://www.perceptualedge.com/blog/?p=2154 Ben Jone's response http://dataremixed.com/2015/11/the-backlash-against-data-dogmatism/ The Upshot 3D chart http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/03/19/upshot/3d-yield-curve-economic-growth.html?_r=1

Matt is Shipwrecked and Emily is lost on A desert island. So what do they do? pick their top 5 viz types from Show Me in an homage to Andy^2's webinar on must-have viz types. Don't forget to nominate folks for the 1st Annual Vizzies! http://tinyurl.com/tableaupodcastawards

We chat about the Kantar Information is Beautiful Awards, which can be found here: http://www.informationisbeautifulawards.com/ Matt & Emily also announce the first annual Vizzies; their way of recognizing members of the community. Nominate folks here: http://www.tinyurl.com/tableaupodcastawards Until next week, good day & good viz. M&E

This week we look at alternative maps, hex maps and period table type maps. We discuss when these are both a good and bad idea, the pros and cons and the things you have to be aware of when using them.

We talk about Vox.com (http://vox.com/) wanting us to get over our truncated-axis hate (http://www.vox.com/2015/11/19/9758062/y-axis-zero-chart), dataviz conversations as highlighted by this post (http://www.tableau.com/about/blog/2015/11/y-axis-shouldnt-always-start-zero-45935) by Martha Kang (the coolest of the the cool), & what we're thankful for in our Tableau world (with a nod to Jen Vaughan's Tableau Thanks (https://tableaujen.wordpress.com/2015/11/18/tableau-thanks-until-thanksgiving-paul-banoub/) post). We LOVE to talk, so let's continue the conversation over Facebook and Twitter. Want Matt or Emily to speak to your TUG? That'd be totally awesome. Give 'em a shout and let's do a live podcast!

This week Emily and Matt look back at the Tableau Conference in Las Vegas. We pick our 3 favourite new feature announcements, some of the sessions we really liked and our own personal conference highlights. We'd love to hear what you loved about Conference this year.

We chatted to Roger about all things data prep, including the new features mentioned in the Devs on Stage keynote such as cross database joins and filters.

We were fortunate to talk with Kelly Wright, EVP of Sales at Tableau. We touch on women in leadership roles in data/tech as well as her thoughts on who needs vizzing (spoiler alert: everyone).

Devs on podcast continues with Sean Boon. We talks a little about visualization types and mapping in particular.

With way too much to talk about, we focused our data15 chat with Bora on making stats & analysis accessible to everyone.

The live podcasting continues as we chat to developer Nick Hritsko about how he came to tableau and the dev work he does.

We caught up with Ronnie “Sausage Fingers” Yates at his first TC. We talk about his journey to Tableau, mobile, & try to find out more about being asked to leave Burning Man.

In this short, we talk with Dr. Jock McKinlay about data sushi (a talk he once gave at Tapestry in 2014) and the research process at Tableau.

Only one name needed, Francois is a total data rockstar. The planets aligned and we finally caught up with Francois to talk about big changes announced on stage and considerations for determining what gets developed.

Sharing the same mission as Tableau, Trina Chaisson's company became Tableau's first acquisition. We caught up with Trina at her first TC to chat about mobile, mission, and making data available to everyone.

This week Emily and Matt preview the Tableau Fringe Festival (http://www.wannabeawesomeme.com/tableau-fringe-festival) Talk 508 compliance in dataviz (http://www.section508.gov/ http://www.access-board.gov/guidelines-and-standards/communications-and-it/about-the-section-508-standards/section-508-standards) and the Women in data meetup and forum.

On this week's episode we welcome Andy Kirk to the show to discuss the topic: Are there any absolute rules in data viz. the conversation started over Twitter about Stephanie Evergreen's blogpost, which you can read here. http://stephanieevergreen.com/down-is-good We also talk about the red/green issue which Matt described as fantagulous, which you can read about here. http://www.wannabeawesomeme.com/1/post/2015/08/seeallthedata.html We loved chatting with Andy, who is definitely in our top 3 Andys of all time.

Ep30 - Birthdayshow by Emily & Matt