Tableau Your Data!, 2nd Edition

About the Author

Daniel G. Murray has over 30 years of professional experience. Dan has seen firsthand the technical revolution in data that led to the creation of Tableau Software. Prior to starting the InterWorks Tableau/BI practice in 2008, he held a variety of increasingly responsible roles in finance, accounting, sales, and operations for a mid-sized global manufacturing company serving the heavy industry and construction markets. During the late 1990s, his employer acquired over 50 companies. Dan’s role in 2006 as the CFO/CIO led to an assignment to integrate and create a global reporting environment. Uninspired by the high cost and complicated products available from traditional vendors, Dan discovered Tableau Software through data visualization expert Stephen Few. Less than one month after downloading a trial license of Tableau Software, Dan and his team were able to successfully create a reporting platform for less than 15 percent of the cost and one-tenth the time that traditional vendors had quoted. At this point, it was apparent that everyone needed Tableau—they just didn’t know it yet.

Within months after speaking at Tableau’s first customer conference, Dan went to friend and founder of InterWorks, Inc., Behfar Jahanshahi, to convince him to allow Dan to form a boutique consulting team focusing on providing the best practices of data visualization and reporting using Tableau Software and any emerging or popular database. Since the publication of the first edition ...