This is an ever growing list of Tableau resources such as blogs, whitepapers, technical articles, and other things I’ve found helpful. Please suggest additional resources in the comments.

Some Basic Tableau Resources

Tableau Conference TV – watch sessions from TC14 in this viz from Keith Helfrich

Some Advanced Tableau Resources

Designing Efficient Workbooks – a whitepaper by Allan Eldridge
Alternate Tableau Basemaps – Allan Walker provides a Tableau 9.0 workbook with alternatives to the built-in-maps.
Tableau 9.0 Level of Detail – Bethany Lyons gives outstanding information and examples of using LOD calcs (also see Part 2, and Part 3).
Tableau 9.0 Hexbins – Kristopher Erickson gives some examples and resources for implementing hexbins using the new functions in Tableau 9. And Alan Eldridge builds on that here.
Solving via Tableau 8 vs. Tableau 9.0 – a thread in the forums where I show how to solve a somewhat complex problem using table calcs in Tableau 8 compared with LOD (Level of Detail) calcs in Tableau 9.0.

Tableau Under the Covers (Technical Articles, Whitepapers — a little more on the heavy technical side)

Tableau Query Fusion – Russell Christopher gives an overview of one of the most exciting behind-the-scenes new Tableau 9.0 features.
Understanding Tableau Data Extracts – Gordon Rose gives some details of the architecture of TDEs. Practical implications follow in part 2 and part 3.
Tableau Web Data Connector – Craig Bloodworth shows how the new connector (currently in beta) works.

Tableau Server Resources

TabJolt – Load Test your Tableau Server
Implementing Tableau Server: Top 10 Pitfalls – Mark Jackson describes what the most common mistakes are when deploying and implementing Tableau Server.
Publish Empty Extracts – Russell Christopher details how to publish empty extracts to server that will be populated on a refresh.

Design and Visualization Techniques

New Ways to See Time – Andy Cotgreave demonstrates some outstanding ways to visualize time based on the questions being asked.
Designing Great Visualizations – Whitepaper describing some basics of good visualization design.
Displaying Missing Values and Incomplete Periods in Time Series – Stephen Few highlights how time series should be visualized when there are missing values or incomplete periods. Looks like he used Tableau!
Good Practices for Fonts – describes the fonts that can be used in Tableau (Tableau Public) that are safe to use on the web
How to Choose Fonts for Presentation Design – another good set of tips on using fonts in design.