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by Sarah Burnett & Fiona Crocker | Co-Founders, Dub Dub Data Here is a number worth sitting with: 71%. That is the proportion of professionals surveyed across a combined professional network who said yes when asked whether most dashboard projects fail. No definition of "failure" was provided - people were left to judge for themselves. And the majority verdict was a resounding yes. That is a…
by Sarah Burnett & Fiona Crocker | Co-Founders, Dub Dub Data Welcome back to part 2 of or Tableau Conference Tips! In our previous blog , we focused on how to get the most out of a conference. This part is all about the human side of conference. Managing imposter syndrome, showing up and connecting with people, being visible while you're there, and actually doing something with it when you get…
by Sarah Burnett & Fiona Crocker | Co-Founders, Dub Dub Data With the annual Tableau Conference fast approaching, we've pulled together a quick post of conference tips and tricks, covering everything from planning your conference schedule to navigating the conference mobile app, finding the best breakout sessions to attend, and making the most of the conference events taking place. If you're…
by Sarah Burnett & Fiona Crocker | Co-Founders, Dub Dub Data You know that analyst on your team. Technically brilliant. Quietly exceptional. Builds the most useful Tableau dashboard in the organisation - and then says absolutely nothing about it in the meeting. They are not quiet because they lack capability. They are quiet because nobody ever designed an environment that made it safe to speak up.…
by Fiona Crocker & Sarah Burnett | Co-Founders, Dub Dub Data You have the data. You have done the analysis. The insights are solid. Yet somehow, you walk out of the executive meeting feeling invisible, your work acknowledged with a polite nod and promptly forgotten. If this sounds familiar, you are not alone. Across many data teams, the biggest non-technical challenge is not analytics capability…
by Fiona Crocker & Sarah Burnett| Co-Founders, Dub Dub Data There are people in every professional community who give more than they take. Who show up consistently, share generously, and quietly raise the floor for everyone around them. In the Tableau and data visualization world, Ken and Kevin Flerlage are those people. And after ten years, 451 blog posts, two Tableau Visionary Hall of Fame…
by Fiona Crocker | Co-Founder, Dub Dub Data TL;DR - Next Level Tableau Review for Analysts (Tableau Course Takeaways) Next Level Tableau works because it doesn't just teach what to do - it teaches how to think in Tableau. After more thanten years of using Tableau, I still learnt dozens of techniques from this Tableau course. LODs are framed as decisions about granularity, not syntax tricks. Dates…
by Sarah Burnett & Fiona Crocker | Co-Founders, Dub Dub Data Many workshops look productive but deliver very little. Sticky notes everywhere. Whiteboards full of arrows. High energy at the beginning of a workshop, then a slow fade as people realise nothing concrete is going to change. The workshop doesn't fail loudly. It quietly dissolves once everyone returns to their day job. That is workshops…
by Sarah Burnett & Fiona Crocker | Co-Founders, Dub Dub Data If you have been in the Tableau or Salesforce world for a while, you have probably felt the tension building. On one side, teams want the freedom, depth, and creative control they have in Tableau Classic. On the other, businesses are demanding something more pragmatic. They want answers where work happens, and they want those answers to…
by Fiona Crocker | Co-Founder, Dub Dub Data TL;DR The best Tableau training doesn't just teach features - it helps teams learn how to build consistency, resilience, and confidence in the way they work with data. Leaders who invest wisely aren't just buying an online course; they're building sustainable Tableau capability and analytics skill that compounds in business value over time. Dub Dub Data…
