Selected Tableau Readings after TCC13

Selected Tableau Readings after TCC13 (since September 18, 2013)

sometimes reading is better then doing or writing...

0. Top 10 sessions from TCC13:
http://www.tableausoftware.com/about/blog/2013/12/top-10-sessions-tcc13-27292

1. Dual Color Axis:
https://www.interworks.com/blogs/wjones/2013/09/18/create-dual-color-axis-tableau

2. Evaluate models with fresh data using Tableau heat maps:
http://cooldata.wordpress.com/2012/07/12/evaluate-models-with-fresh-data-using-tableau-heat-maps/

3. Tableau Throws a Brick at Traditional BI:
http://www.datanami.com/datanami/2013-09-11/tableau_throws_a_brick_at_traditional_bi.html

4. Easy Empty Local Extracts:
http://www.tableausoftware.com/about/blog/2013/9/easy-empty-local-extracts-25152

5. Tableau 8.1: Sophisticated Analytics for Sophisticated People:
http://www.tableausoftware.com/about/blog/2013/9/tableau-81-sophisticated-analytics-sophisticated-people-25177

6. Tableau 8.1 and R (can be interesting for at least 5% of Tableau users):
http://www.tableausoftware.com/about/blog/2013/10/tableau-81-and-r-25327
also see:
https://www.interworks.com/blogs/trobeson/2013/11/27/using-r-tableau-81-getting-started
and here:
http://www.tableausoftware.com/about/blog/r-integration

7. Tableau, When Are You Going to Fix This?
http://www.datarevelations.com/tableau-when-are-you-going-to-fix-this.html

8. Automated PDF Email Distribution of Tableau Views Using PowerShell and Tabcmd:
http://www.interworks.com/blogs/tladd/2013/08/22/automated-pdf-email-distribution-tableau-views-using-powershell-and-tabcmd

9. Geocoding Addresses Directly in Tableau 8.1 Using Integration with R:
http://www.dataplusscience.com/Geocoding%20in%20Tableau%20using%20R.html

10. Best Practices for Designing Efficient Workbooks (and white Paper about it):
http://www.tableausoftware.com/about/blog/2013/10/best-practices-designing-efficient-workbooks-25391

11. Tableau Mapping Architecture:
http://urbanmapping.com/tableau/mapping-architecture.html

12. Story Points in Tableau 8.2 presentation mode:
http://eagereyes.org/blog/2013/story-points

13. Truly Global: Filtering Across Multiple Tableau Workbooks with the JavaScript API:
https://www.interworks.com/blogs/tladd/2013/10/24/truly-global-filtering-across-multiple-tableau-workbooks-javascript-api

14. Tableau 8.1 Worksheet, Dashboard menus improved, still room for more:
http://tableaufriction.blogspot.com/2013/10/tv81-beta-3-worksheet-dashboard-menus.html

15. Lollipops Charts in Tableau:
http://drawingwithnumbers.artisart.org/lollipops-for-quality-improvement/

16. Was Stephen Few Right?
http://www.datarevelations.com/was-stephen-few-right-my-problems-with-a-companys-iron-viz-competition.html

17. Precision Inputs Required In Addition To Analog Controls:
http://tableaufriction.blogspot.com/2013/11/precision-inputs-required-in-addition.html

18. Google Spreadsheets to Tableau connector - a working driver:
http://community.tableausoftware.com/thread/135281

19. Leveraging Color to Improve Your Data Visualization:
http://www.tableausoftware.com/public/blog/2013/10/leveraging-color-improve-your-data-visualization-2174

20. Workbook acts as a container for multiple Tableau-based Charts - 114
Samples and Visualization Types:
http://www.alansmitheepresents.org/2013/07/team-geiger-rides-again.html

21. The New Box-and-Whisker Plot:
http://www.tableausoftware.com/public/blog/2013/11/box-and-whisker-plots-2231

22. The Tableau Workbook Library:
http://www.tableausoftware.com/about/blog/2013/11/tableau-workbook-library-27004

23. Customizing Tableau Server Experience (Parts 1, 1.5, 2):
http://ugamarkj.blogspot.com/2013/11/customizing-tableau-server-experience.html
http://ugamarkj.blogspot.com/2013/12/customizing-tableau-server-experience.html
http://ugamarkj.blogspot.com/2013/12/customizing-tableau-server-experience_15.html

24. SAML Integration in Tableau 8.1:
https://www.interworks.com/blogs/daustin/2013/11/27/saml-integration-tableau-81

25. Tableau file types and extensions:
http://www.theinformationlab.co.uk/2013/12/02/tableau-file-types-and-extensions/

26. Tableau Server XML Information Files: The Master Class:
http://tableaulove.tumblr.com/post/69383091006/tableau-server-xml-information-files-the-master-class

27. Is it Transparency? Is it Opacity? Labeled one, works like the other:
http://tableaufriction.blogspot.com/2013/12/is-it-transparency-is-it-opacity.html

28. Viz Hall of Fame:
http://www.tableausoftware.com/about/blog/2013/12/viz-hall-fame-27270

29. Tableau Weekly Archive:
http://us7.campaign-archive1.com/home/?u=f3dd94f15b41de877be6b0d4b&id=d23712a896

30. 2013 Winners:
http://www.tableausoftware.com/public/blog/2013/12/2013-award-winners-2272
Happy New Year!