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Tableau 10 is generally available, complete with visual tweaks

They made their own custom font. No, really

Tableau 10 is now generally available, upping the data visualisation business' wares to please existing customers and bring in some new ones.

Fresh off the bat from reporting its overly successful Q2 results earlier this month, Tableau has released version 10 of its data visualisation product.

Tableau 10 is arriving with some much needed stability improvements for Tableau Server, easing the upgrade process so a manual uninstall of older versions is no longer necessary.

You'll still need a three-node cluster if you want failover or high availability with a second instance of the repository, though.

Updates to Tableau Desktop, Online and Mobile arrive too. Cross-database joins are now supported too, allowing users to bring together disparate data sources, for instance connecting Google Sheets, Excel, and Kognitio, while cross-database filtering will allow single filters to be applied to multiple data sources in user workbooks too.

A new design "makes data the hero" according to the company. How so? Tableau is glad you asked; the nutters have only gone and designed their own custom font in partnership with "renowned typography expert Tobias Frere-Jones" which was "created to optimize legibility and elegance".

Not only is there a never-seen before font (which has done much to sell people to Microsoft's Windows 10 system) there is also a brand new colour palette which "has been tuned up to ensure perceptual equality of shapes in complex visualizations and emphasis when needed."

Of course, celebrating your own capacity for prettier visualisation is expected when that's what you're selling.

Tableau 10's new interface is meant to be easily exported to multiple device types, including to mobile. A new device designer is meant to enable users to create dashboards for their mobile workforce which will automatically be rendered to the right size for a range of devices, including Android and IOS mobiles.

New APIs are also available for devs, although we haven't seen the maths behind Tableau's claim that these allows "endless opportunities for new integrations with Tableau." ®

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