About the Author

Matt Floyd has worked in the software industry since 2000 and has held career roles from project management to technical writing and business intelligence analysis. His career has spanned many industries, including environment, healthcare, pharmaceuticals, and insurance.

Matt's hands-on experience with Tableau started in 2008 after evaluating alternatives to reporting and analytical software used by his clients. Since then, he has been a technical writer, implementation engineer, consultant, developer, and analyst in BI projects. His passion for Tableau stems from his fascination of discovery through data and the art, science, and power of data visualization. He is currently interested in text mining and the combination of that data with powerful visualizations that tell fascinating stories. He and his family live in metro Atlanta, and when not stuck in traffic, he sometimes offers musings on his blog covering various visualization topics at http://floydmatt.com/.

Thank you to my wife, Beth, for her love and patience as I worked on this book as well as my daughters, Audrey and Hope, for being reliably funny and understanding. Thank you to my co-author, Ashley, for the technical chops and experience to make this an outstanding the book. To my employer, thank you for finally getting Tableau (great job, Jim K, for making it happen!), and thanks to all the Matts who make this world awesome.