1. Interactive Data Dashboards with Tableau
Kimberlie Struiksma
Research Analyst
Whatcom Community College

2. Problem
Faculty, staff, and administrators were always asking for specific data-sets that constantly changed and required lots of query writing.
We needed a Business Intelligence solution!

3. What is Business Intelligence?
Business intelligence (BI) is a technology-driven process for analyzing data and presenting actionable information to help corporate executives, business managers and other end users make more informed business decisions. BI encompasses a variety of tools, applications and methodologies that enable organizations to collect data from internal systems and external sources, prepare it for analysis, develop and run queries against the data, and create reports, dashboards and data visualizations to make the analytical results available to corporate decision makers as well as operational workers.

4. We explored lots of different Business Intelligence platforms/analytics software.
Review of other products:
Tableau leader: For the third time, Tableau is a leader in the Magic Quadrant for Business Intelligence and Analytics Platforms report:

5. Really Cool Stuff Tableau Solutions: http://www.tableau.com/solutions
Visual Gallery:
Whatcom Community College Tableau gallery:
New and Returning Students:
Enrollments by Building and Location:

6. Technical Details Tableau Public: https://public.tableau.com/s/
Tableau Server
Tableau Desktop

7. Sample Worksheet Tableau Support Contact Kim Struiksma
Research Analyst
Whatcom Community College
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