Preface

What is it about a piece of software that inspires a community of users to post pictures of themselves holding signs that say, “I love Tableau”, write books and blogs, and spend countless hours volunteering to help others visualize their data? And how is it that a single tool can be embraced and used by everyone from business users, to data analysts, to CEOs? What is it about Tableau that inspires such passion?

Tableau’s uniqueness comes from its paradigm. Tableau is different from traditional BI products that force you to select a chart type and then match data to various components of the chart. You won’t be confronted with wizards or pre-built dashboards that give you some insight at first but fail to deliver additional insight when ...

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