Data visualization veterans Ellie Fields and Jeffrey Heer are launching Ridge AI from stealth with $2.6M from Madrona and ...

Tableau Software’s 8.2 update includes a variety of improvements — Tableau can now run natively on Macs, for example — but the new Story Points feature stands out. Story Points allows Tableau ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I track enterprise software application development & data management. Data on its own can be bewildering, apparently meaningless ...

There are people who have the time and talent necessary to stare at columns and rows of data, plug in variables and use sophisticated software tools to help them understand and solve problems and ...

Domo and Tableau started their data visualization and business intelligence (BI) journeys from two very different places on the IT map. Tableau is an early pioneer of the category that got its start ...

In 2026, data analysis roles still depend heavily on two practical tools: Excel for cleaning, checking, and working through business data, and Tableau for turning that data into dashboards people ...

The Web-based version of Tableau’s analytics system allows data visualizations to be published, reused, and embedded in Web pages as if they were YouTube videos ...

Although Microsoft Excel does has a limited set of visualization options for charts and graphs, this is not the primary function of the app itself so the functionality is understandably narrow.

Last week, I agreed to a briefing about Tableau 8.0, the company’s latest release and what they say is the biggest product news of the year. Well, I am unimpressed. The new Tableau software is robust, ...