Hello! I am the student from 1983 who got in contact with Tableau. Also, I am the one who wrote and recorded all of the FIRST tutorials on the Tableau landing page.
Our team used Tableau last year to simplify the process of analyzing our scouting data. We used to use Excel and pivot tables to move our data from entry, to a graph. The whole process was incredibly complicated. Before we switched to Tableau last year, I probably sunk in 3 weeks (~25 hours) into the buggy system. We decided to scrap Excel because it was obviously not designed for entry and switch to Access and to use Tableau for visualization. The new system took only an hours to build and had fewer bugs. Also, Tableau allowed us to make new visualizations, or change the ones we had already built on the fly.
The tutorial videos on the landing page (
http://www.tableausoftware.com/first...#section-three) are pretty much exactly the same as our system last year.
Also, feel free to PM me about any questions you our your team might have. I would love to help.