The Tableau Wannabe Podcast

Throwback to #data22 where we spoke to #tableau CDO Wendy Turner-Williams

Well it wouldn't be TC without the rockstar Francois Ajenstat on stage, so of course, we have to have him on the show. We talked about the conference, Devs on Stage and all the good stuff, including that photo from the keynote. 

In this episode, Matt and Emily talked to Salesforce CMO Sarah Frankling about her experience of TC, the Salesforce family and how she feels about the #datafam 

Today at #data22 we talked to Tableau CEO Mark Nelson about his thoughts on being back at conference, where Tableau is heading and how it feels to go from backroom coder to company front man. 

In the first podcast live from #data22 Matt and Emily talked to Francis Dejonckheere about Tableau Blueprint and how it can be used to transform organisations to be data driven

In this episode of the Tableau World Podcast, Emily talks with Frank Elevasky on accessibility in dataviz, the Chartability tool, and his three wishes.     Check out Chartability, a tool to help you determine the accessibility of a viz, by going to: https://chartability.fizz.studio/   Follow Frank at: https://twitter.com/frankelavsky?lang=en

This week Matt and Emily talk about some changes to the podcast, which is now called The Tableau World Podcast, with a shiny new logo too. 

This week its all about new things, a New Tableau CEO, a new Tableau 2021.1 release and a new blog at www.mattsworldofviz.com

At the last in person Tableau conference we sat down with Francois, Andrew and Mark Nelson, little did we know he would become the big boss, or maybe we did. 

What happens when someone who doesn't set goals chats to someone that likes to set them? This podcast! Today Matt and Emily talk about how to set goals both in personal and professional situations. The importance of rewarding yourself and ensuring that your goals are achievable. 

In the final episode of 2020 we review the latest release of Tableau with Craig Bloodworth and discuss all the new features. We also come up with the amazing idea of Francois on the Shelf, available in 2021.   

This week we are joined by Eva Murray who talks about her new book, Empowered by Data: How to Build Inspired Analytics Communities and the new Womens Writers Club https://womenswritersclub.mailerpage.com/    

We take a look back at TC20 and discuss some of the things we really loved about Tableaus first attempt at a virtual conference and we look forward to the original Tableau Virtual conference, TFF20

This week Matt and Emily preview Tableau #data20ish. The 2nd online tableau conference, after #TFF. 

In this episode Matt and Emily launch the voting for the 2020 Tableau Podcast Community awards, the Vizzies. With special thanks to Kevin Flerlage. Think of the SAG awards, but for the Tableau datafam. You can find the voting form here bit.ly/2020vizziesnoms

This week Matt and Emily talk relationship noodles and what they mean for your data. Is this the end of joins? Of course, It depends. 

Big News! COVID-19 shifted the way we work and live and Iron Viz. In this episode, Matt & Emily share about big news in the Tableau world; • Racial Justice Initiative and commentary about what Tableau as a company is doing to be more diverse in their leadership Introspection and Action: An open letter from Tableau CEO Adam Selipsky | Tableau Software • Iron Viz competition Ready to take your data skills to the next level? Iron Viz is back for 2020 with our biggest prizes yet | Tableau Software • Tableau Ambassador nominations Nominations and Applications are now open for 2020 Tableau Ambassadors, Introducing DataDev Ambassadors! | Tableau Software

We are back for our usual banter and chat. This week Em and Matt talked Lockdown, Covid, Data and virtual meetups

This week we talked to Paul Isaacs, one of the people beind the exciting new animations in Tableau 2020

A new release of Tableau means a new tech chat with Jmac and Craig. We talked animations, dynamic parameters and all the other gifts that Ajenstat has given unto us.

In the first podcast of 2020, Matt and Emily talked to @BBCNews Senior data journalist Christine Jeavans (@chrisjeavans). Christine works for the News Graphics team and creates data visualizations for the BBC News Website. We discussed the recent general elections results and the challenge of making accessible visualizations for the masses. Some of the work we talked about in the episode : BMI Tracker https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-43697948 How Much Warmer is your City? https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt-985b9374-596e-4ae6-aa04-7fbcae4cb7ee Whats Your Diets Foot print ? https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-46459714 2019 General Election Results https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/election/2019/results 2019 General Election Analysis https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/election-2019-50770798 NHS Tracker https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-41483322  

We sat down to look back at 2019, we talked about the releases throughout the year, some of our favourite features, Salesforce, TC, Elections and some future plans for 2020

We concluded our #data19 live podcasts by sitting down with Cole Nussbaumer Knaflic (@storywithdata) about how to make better stories with our data and #tableau

Continuing our #data19 podcasts we talked to Mike Hetrick, Senior Product Marketing Manager for @tableau Blueprint about how Blueprint came to be and what it can do for your #tableau adoption. 

We chatted to Mark Jewett, VP Product Marketing about his #data19 experience

We talked to the Queen of set actions and Iron Viz Finalist Lindsey Poulter, and her Sous Chef former Tableau fan boy now employee Mark Bradbourne. 

We had our regular #TC chat with @tableau CEO Adam Selipsky (@aselipsky) who talked about his #data19 keynote and the whole #tableau #datafam

We reassembled the dynamic #tableau product dream team, C3PO Francois Ajenstat, CTO Andrew Beers & EVP Product Development Mark Nelson to talk about whatever it is they do @tableau  and how they enjoyed #data19

We talked to new girl, Jackie Yeaney @tableau's new EVP Marketing. She told us about her journey to #tableau and her experience of the madness of #data19. Will she swear? Well what do you think?

We talked to Victoria Wagner and Tyler (Mr Noodles) about their Devs on Stage experience at #data19, animations and the amazing new data modeling. 

Tableau spends a lot of time researching the best way to talk to data. We chatted with Vidya Setlur on her work on NLP and the legendary Jock Mackinlay on having conversations with data. 

We talked to Sara Rantschler, Devs on Stage about the amazing demos she showed for the new features coming to Tableau server, oh and her love of Pokemon

We talked to joint #Ironviz winners Hesham Eissa & Joshua Smith about what it was like to compete on stage in front of thousands at #data19, their journies to the stage and how they created their entries. 

In the first of our live #data19 shows we talked to Neil Myrick, Tableau Foundation + special guest Eric Stowe, Splash, CEO & Founder

Matt & Emily were joined by members of the community to preview the Tableau event of the year. Heard about favourite sessions and top tips to make the most of data19

In this episode, Emily, Jonathan, and Craig get to talk about their features in the newest release.  Check out the new features here: https://www.tableau.com/products/new-features#feature-110598 Kelly Martin’s work on Tableau Public:  https://public.tableau.com/profile/kelly#!/ Don’t forget: Nominations are now open for the Vizzies! Nominate people in the Tableau community for an award to be handed out at TC19 (do not need to be present to win). http://bit.ly/2019vizzies  

As we count down to our 200th Espisode we looked back at some of the best episodes and favorite interviews. This is an interview with founder and former Tableau CEO Christian Chabot from April 2015. 

Matt and Emily have both recently taught Tableau in the classroom and created online learning courses. They both talk about their approach to teaching, some of the highs and lows and how to make sure that the course runs smoothly. 

In the latest community chat, we talk about the recent acquisition of Tableau by Salesforce, what it will mean for Tableau & the community. 

On this episode, Matt and Emily are joined by technical correspondents, Craig Bloodworth and JMac (Jonathan MacDonald) to discuss the standout features of 2019.2.  Listen as the crew talks about Mapping, New Server features, and their personal standouts.

Lindsay Betzendahl joins us on the podcast to talk about all things Project Health Viz, her decision for not participating in the first feeder for Iron Viz, and her three wishes for Tableau.  Check out this episode to learn more about Lindsay and don’t forget to check out Project Health Viz. You can learn more about it here: https://vizzendata.com/projecthealthviz/.

As its Iron Viz season we talked to Iron Viz Europe finalist Sarah Bartlett about what its like to compete on stage and what it takes to get to the finals. 

Mark Jewett, head of Product Marketing for Tableau joins us in this episode. Mark also issues "a how to measure hugs" challenge.  We’re counting on you listeners to deliver on the #markjewetthugchallenge.  We also talk about all things community and the features that the community is showing love for.  

In this episode, Matt and Emily speak with Chantilly Jaggernauth to explore her favorite vizzes. We also talk her Tableau journey and her MAD (Millennials and Data) work.     Check out her favorites vizzes here:   1st: SafeSleep https://public.tableau.com/profile/chantilly.jaggernauth#!/vizhome/SafeSleep_0/Safesleep 2nd: Significant Earthquakes Around the World https://public.tableau.com/profile/chantilly.jaggernauth#!/vizhome/SignificantEarthquakesAroundtheWorld1918-2018/SignificantEarthquakes … 3rd: Percent of Females in Leadership and Tech https://public.tableau.com/profile/chantilly.jaggernauth#!/vizhome/PercentofFemalesinLeadershipandTech/DearTechPeople …  

On this episode, Matt and Emily are joined by technical correspondents, Craig Bloodworth and JMac (Jonathan MacDonald) to discuss the standout features of 2019.1.  Listen as the crew talks about Ask Data, Prep Conductor, and their personal standouts.   Check out the list of new features here: https://www.tableau.com/products/new-features   ______________________________________________________________________   It would mean so much to us if you gave us a 5 star rating. Higher ratings mean more visibility, which means more people can be introduced to the podcast and Tableau.     A note from Emily: The Tableau Fringe Festival is coming back to EMEA on March 8th, don’t forget to register at: http://bit.ly/registertffemea   Good day and good viz!

In this episode, Matt and Emily talk with Kevin Flerlage in their new feature, Author Insights.   Learn about Kevin’s Tableau journey as well as his top three favorite vizzes that he’s created as well as his favorite vizzes from other authors.   Check out the vizzes here:   https://public.tableau.com/profile/kevin.flerlage#!/vizhome/TheAfricanWaterCrisis_1/WaterDashboard   https://public.tableau.com/profile/kevin.flerlage#!/vizhome/IronVizEntry-TheLorax/TheLorax   https://public.tableau.com/profile/kevin.flerlage#!/vizhome/FlowersofLife/FlowerDashboard His favorite vizzes from other authors:   Adam McCann’s Beatles Analysis: https://public.tableau.com/shared/3DH3RJ567?:display_count=yes   Ken Flerlage’s Killing Fields https://public.tableau.com/views/TheKillingFields3/KillingFields?:embed=y&:display_count=yes   Chantilly Jaugernauth’s NHL Viz https://public.tableau.com/views/NHLGameAttendance_0/NHLGameAttendance?:embed=y&:display_count=yes   Check out Kevin’s website at: https://www.kevinflerlage.com

New Year, New Stuff! In this episode, Matt and Emily discuss upcoming changes to the format of the podcast. And in the interest of new beginnings, New Year’s Resolutions, Matt asks Emily an unscripted question about how to start a blog and gets a little more than he bargained for. Emily’s Key Takeaways: Start a blog if you love writing and are passionate about a subject. Find what medium works best for you (vlog, blog, podcast, etc). Consider the tools available and go with the one that works for you. Matt and Emily also discuss new projects in the community. Check them out: http://mentoringmeetup.com https://sarahlovesdata.co.uk/tag/ironquest/ https://throwback-thursday.com https://data.world/sportsvizsunday https://vizzendata.com/projecthealthviz/ Don’t forget to check out the upcoming virtual and in person Tableau User Groups here: https://community.tableau.com/community/groups

In Episode 188, Matt and Emily discuss the impactful features from Tableau releases this year, reviews of a few conferences, and focus areas for 2019.

EP187 - Lindsey Poulter Talks Sets by Emily & Matt

EP186 -#TC18 Live - Adam Selipsky by Emily & Matt