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📊 #PowerBI enthusiasts, explore my latest book 'Teach Yourself VISUALLY Power BI': alexloth.com/power-bi-book/
🎨 #Tableau lovers, my classic 'Visual Analytics for Tableau' is still here: alexloth.com/tableau-book/
#dataviz #VisualAnalytics #datafam #PBI #Analytics #DataVisualization
ALT The Wiley books 'Teach Yourself VISUALLY Power BI' and 'Visual Analytics for Tableau' by Alexander Loth, shown in a modern office environment.
📊 New in the Tableau August 2026 release: Tableau Next authoring adds multi field select, faster waterfall builds, and right click to duplicate widgets or copy styles. Semantic Model Builder Smart Canvas hits GA. 🆕 tableau.com/products/new-fea… #Tableau #datafam #DataViz
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The DVS Mentorship Program returns! Apply by Sept 20 for the Oct to Dec cohort. This program offers mentees early in their #dataviz career an opportunity to work with a mentor who has 5+ years of professional experience in the field. Apply here: buff.ly/mkCqtFa
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Power BI tip most people learn too late: a calculated column is stored in the model and costs memory on every row. A measure is computed at query time and costs almost nothing at rest. If it can be a measure, make it a measure. 📊
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⌨️ New #TinyTableauTip guest host: Ann Stolzman!
Her tip: Keyboard Shortcuts
Quickly send fields to Columns, Rows, Filters, Color, Labels & Pages in @Tableau.
Less dragging. Faster building. ⚡
🎥 torelevinsen.com/tinytableau…
#DataFam #WeAreDataPeople
Power BI forecast tip: in the Analytics pane, skip auto seasonality. Set it manually (12 for monthly data), then use Ignore last 6 points to backtest against actuals you already have. Sample pbix in the repo 📊 #PowerBI #DataViz #analytics github.com/aloth/Power-BI-Fa…
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Inspired by Sashimi @yamacho1111👀
Image → Tableau, Sydney edition 🇦🇺
public.tableau.com/app/profi…
🌇 Day → Sunset
📍 Geo tooltips
☕ Salesforce latte art
🏙️ Sydney Harbour
Sometimes Tableau doesn’t need to look like a dashboard. 😎
#Tableau #DataFam #DataViz
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📦 New #TinyTableauTip from Celia Fryar, Part 2!
Dropping in Template Resources
Reuse dashboard templates, data files & calculations to speed up your @tableau workflow.
Build once. Reuse often. ⚡
torelevinsen.com/tinytableau…
#DataFam #WeAreDataPeople
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#Tableau Fashion Week — Round 2 👀✨
What’s my dashboard wearing today?
💚 Satin → 🩷 Rose Paper → 💜 Dream Land
Same data. One click. New outfit.
Tableau, but make it fashion. 😎 public.tableau.com/app/profi…
#Tableau #DataFam #RWFD #DataViz #ClaudeForce #TableauForce
📊 Power BI August 2026: modern visual defaults and the Theme pane hit general availability. Set base theme, colors and text styles once, every visual on every page inherits them. 🆕 community.fabric.microsoft.c… #PowerBI #MicrosoftFabric #DataViz
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The deepest ocean trench drops further below sea level than Everest rises above it. Earth in cross section, pole to pole, as the globe turns. Vertical scale exaggerated. Data: NOAA ETOPO 2022 #dataviz #geography
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One prediction set, two reported results. I re-audited an AI-text detection eval and the gap was not the model, it was unrecorded provenance: which corpus split got loaded. RAID extra has zero English news and is 92% adversarially attacked. Record the split. 🔬
Data strategy check: strong programs balance big data, analytics, and decision support tools. Most teams fund storage, underfund decision support, then wonder why nobody acts on the dashboard. Free framework decks 📊 github.com/aloth/decisively-… #DataViz #analytics
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Why do flight paths curve on flat maps? Watch the great circle route between San Francisco and London turn into a straight line as the projection shifts. Flat maps lie, geometry doesn't! ✈️🌍 #GreatCircleRoute #Cartography #DataViz #Geodesy
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Data viz principle worth repeating: color is an encoding, not decoration. If every category gets its own hue, nothing stands out. Gray out the context, color the one series your audience needs to see. One highlight beats a rainbow every time. 📊
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🔷 New #TinyTableauTip guest host: @ojoswi (Ojo)
His tip: Building a Pie Chart in a Hex Shape 📊
A creative geometric twist on a classic @tableau chart.
🎥
torelevinsen.com/tinytableau…
#DataFam #WeAreDataPeople
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Midweek vessel viz: Iceland's fishing fleet, one month, 9.4M AIS pings. 589,000 km sailed = 14 laps of the equator. Trawler AKUREY alone did 7,000+ km, at sea near enough every day. @MarineTraffic data #ais #dataviz #threejs
📊 New in the Power BI July 2026 update: TMDL view now runs on the web, so semantic model edits no longer need Desktop. Also shipping: conditional formatting for line charts and legends. 🆕 aka.ms/powerbijuly2026update #PowerBI #MicrosoftFabric #DataViz
