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Things were looking bad for Salesforce's Tableau
Things were looking bad for Tableau CEO Ryan Aytay and the DataFam. Salesforce killed longstanding reseller deals, customers complain about the new…
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How Tableau thrived by refusing to play data czar [Replay from 2008]
Instead of delivering predetermined truths from on high, one company built its reputation on user freedom—letting data inspire stories that spark new…
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The $15.7 billion question: Can Salesforce tame the DataFam?
Why Tableau's improvisational data culture and Salesforce's rigid orthodoxy may be fundamentally incompatible
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Replay: How to find a story in data
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Tableau Conference’s best data story shows how data give movements teeth
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Former Tableau CMO Elissa Fink tells how she and her team put the once-scrappy startup on the data industry's map
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The $15.7 billion question: Can Salesforce tame the DataFam?
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Replay #2: Three dispatches from the first Tableau conference
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How to make a visualized “data story” work
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Do data and stories make an odd couple?
Data vs. stories: which rules? My Sunday debate with @steveswoyer unpacks the tension between analytical integrity and narrative drive. Is…
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Stories and the natural selection of data
Replay from 2015
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The uncomfortable truth about quality industry analysis
The dirty little secret about Gartner analysts? They hate their jobs—and that's exactly why they're good. Find out how those endless customer calls…
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No fairy dust required
Think your fancy AI and advanced analytics will magically solve all your problems? A Reno casino hired a Russian scientist to analyze their declining…
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When numbers cast spells
The dangerous art of conjuring certainty from data
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Study finds executives trust their gut, tarot card makers rejoice
A post from the Datadoodle archive, 2009
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The shadow war between stories and spreadsheets
Modern oracles still need wise interpreters
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Why workers resist data (and what Lenin might say)
Donald Farmer, who helped make SQL Server and Qlik what they are today, sees data resistance much like Lenin saw worker consciousness: It's not about…
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Replay from 2015: Stupid analytics gets them talking
If data analysis somehow supports a bad decision, should we blame the data? The answer that emerged from an online debate shows what Madsen means about…
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Datadoodle - by Ted Cuzzillo
Datadoodle - by Ted Cuzzillo
Datadoodle traverses the faultline between data and the people who use data.
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