Sessions

Come meet Irwin Dolobowsky (Product Manager) and Russell Hay (Development Manager) from the Developer Platform team to discuss (yes discuss!) the past, present, and future of Tableau's Automation APIS - REST APIs, TabCmd, Webhooks, and more!  There will be a (very) short presentation prepared but expect to spend most of the time in conversation and Q&A.  What's missing? What works? What doesn't?  Come tell us directly!

You’re comfortable with ratios and aggregation in Tableau—now you’re ready to stretch your brain and take on the next skillset. This stellar analytics track will move you from amateur to advanced with a lineup of period analysis methods via complex date calculations, nested logic statements, intricate string calculations, advanced conditional filtering, and more. Come learn how to get comfortable with multi-step calculations that will help you immediately in your business and analysis!

A few weeks after taking the reigns as Tableau Product owner at Micron I started feeling like I had bitten off a lot more than I could chew. Shifting to a crowdsource structure has enabled us to do a lot more with limited resources. Developing an effective COE has been an essential part of this effort. Lessons learned can be stepping stones for others.

Does your company have a leadership pipeline that includes underrepresented minorities? Have you implemented programs to diversify your company’s senior leadership? Are you an underrepresented minority with ideas on how companies can grow current employees into leaders? Have a seat at the table and join us as we discuss the importance of diversity in leadership and share experiences that have led to success.

See how to use Tableau to show how AI and ML technology is closing the unstructured-to-actionable data gap with Tableau and ALI Data Insights from ThoughtTrace. During the session, we will have a live demonstration of how critical data can be surfaced in contracts and legal documents in just minutes, allowing human intelligence to focus on critical elements for analysis, and ultimately resulting in a significant reduction in risk and better insights into obligations. This technology enables companies to integrate newfound data with their own internal data and systems to gain additional insights. Capabilities include detailed visualizations that provide holistic insight into a range of use cases, and the Tableau capabilities include mapping functions that provide greater insight based on geographical location. Report templates can be used as a baseline to build custom reports, and SQL data is easily integrated into existing systems.

There is a constant need for viewers of Tableau visualizations to always have the latest information in front of them. This session covers real-word use cases, from updating a procurement database, to knowing the location of your commuter train, and explores how to complete the analysis lifecycle by keeping underlying data sources up to date. We will demonstrate how the data behind Tableau visualizations, using Dashboard Extensions and TabPy, can be refreshed automatically or be updated by viewers of the visualization.

To answer all the questions regarding movie performance from studios, Fandango has developed “Studio Portal” application, which is a collection of insights to be used by various departments within Fandango as well as External Studio. These dashboards give insights of how a movie is performing compared to other movies before and after release. We will walk you through our journey from inception to a finished product and its adoption.
You will learn about:

• Identifying the opportunity to build data products that solve for repetitive adhoc questions.
• Creating interactive and visually appealing dashboards.
• Packaging dashboards into a product that you can monetarize.
• How to inspire your customers to self-serve

Eager to install Tableau Server on Linux, but not sure where to start? In this class you will get hands-on experience spinning up your own instance of Tableau Server on a Linux machine. We will be installing and configuring Tableau Server using Tableau Services Monitor ensuring you get to utilize some of the brand-new features that are now available. Expect to learn best practices on completing the install, configuring Tableau Server on Linux, and migrating effectively from your existing system.

Are you considering migrating your data to the public cloud? Have you wondered about the implications for your business intelligence strategy? In this session, we will cover best practices from creating a foundation, all the way up to optimizing for performance and scale. We will also present several customer examples that demonstrate a successful transition to the cloud.

Why and how do you use Prep to solve data prep? Join this introductory class to find out how to clean, shape and combine data the "Tableau Prep way". This means pushing on experimentation, using visualization and profiling to understand your data, and staying in the analytical flow. This class should be our equivalent to “Why visual analytics?”, where we show people why our visual perception is a powerful way to understand data.

Level of detail expressions (LOD) in Tableau introduce an abundance of capabilities for curious data geeks who wish to push the boundaries of Tableau. This session will demonstrate "LODs of fun" techniques, including enabling single member drill down, search across a hierarchy, one-click drill down on maps, market basket analysis, and other filter scenarios.

Do you use marketing automation technologies to scale your demand generation efforts? Are you often left wondering how to digest and report on all this disparate data? Join us to hear how the Tableau marketing automation team has built and curated well-balanced data sources and dashboards that enable the entire marketing organization to understand the impact of email and campaign efforts, as well as served up integrated reporting to fulfill everyone's champagne and caviar dreams.

In this session, you'll learn how to extend Tableau with the power of machine learning as a non-data scientist, and elevate your data analysts to citizen data scientists. Using Big Squid's machine learning platform Kraken, we'll show you how to uncover hidden patterns in your data and answer forward-looking business questions like "What will happen tomorrow?" and "What can we do about it today?". Come learn from other Tableau customers on how they embraced machine learning and saw immediate value with Kraken, running predictive analytics, what-if scenarios and providing actionable insight to the business. Get on the path to predictive today!

In the past year, Cargill, a company of 150,000 employees, has dissolved its corporate, IT-centric, traditional BI organization. Now, Self-Service Analytics (SSA) is the future. We’re giving data back to the people. How do we succeed when the organization is scarred by projects, when learning analytics is perceived as expensive, and when everyone who gets introduced to Tableau replies, “I’m not a data person”? Good question, I’m glad you asked. Come to this session to find out how we modeled our community after Tableau’s. We’ll tell you how we were able to make data fun. You’ll walk away inspired by the tale of how we took SSA from rogue to vogue quadrupling Cargill’s analytics community and empowering thousands of people to uncover millions in opportunity.

Why sit alone during lunch when you could chow down with fellow data geeks supporting the retail industry? Join members of Tableau's retail and consumer team at a reserved table in Data Village and connect with your peers.

Do you have spatial data? Do you think maps are awesome? We do and we want to help you answer your spatial questions more effectively in Tableau. This presentation is framed around a set of common spatial questions (e.g. where is it, how far is it, how it is distributed, what is nearby, what is here, how does it compare to {location}) with demonstrations of our favorite practices for creative use of mapping and non-mapping viz features in Tableau. Join us to take your spatial analytics to the next level!

In 2016, Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) began an effort to develop standardized metrics for our highest leadership levels down to our 25 districts and more than 30 divisions. This session will walk through the bottom-up journey to improve the use of data, its transparency, and its delivery. Our story will provide the steps taken that led to our Tableau deployment, examples of our leadership dashboards within the pyramid framework, initial deployment lessons learned, and where the Tableau movement is heading. You will get a chance to see our public website with embedded Tableau visuals, and learn about the importance of governance, which is critical at the time of any Tableau deployment.

Learn how you can use Python in Tableau! We probably cannot teach you how to code in two hours, but we can show you how to use Python in Tableau to create amazing visualizations that would otherwise not be possible. We will show you how to install TabPy, how you can get Tableau Desktop and Server talking with a Python environment, and most importantly, how you can put Python code directly into your Tableau calculations.

"We've got gadgets and gizmos aplenty
we've got whozits and whatzits galore
(You want thingamabobs?
We've got twenty)
But who cares?
No big deal
You want more"

At Disney Parks & Resorts Merchandise, we support analytics for our world-renowned theme parks, cruise, and Vacation Club offerings. From global park sales to individual item-level detail at a single store, our data needs range from determining how many glass slippers to order for the first royal ball to optimizing Arrendale in the event of another ice storm. Join us to be inspired, break away from typical designs, and walk through our Store Performance dashboard design project. This session will show the evolution of our designs, uncover the thought process, and inspire you to create more fun and magical designs.

VizQL, the language at the heart of Tableau, ties together UI, queries, and a powerful mental model of data visualization. It allows users to build insightful vizzes and gives tools access to information for automated reasoning about the results. But that's just one example of languages that can allow for rich user input, optimizations, natural language interaction, and machine learning tools.

Don’t bug out when you encounter the red "X" in your Calculation Editor. This session gives an in-depth rundown of common bugs and errors Tableau users find while creating calculations. (Plus, how to exterminate them.) Learn when to aggregate (and when not to), complex logical statements, and calculation best practices, so you'll be able to write calcs that won't pest-er you.

Over the past three years, our team replaced a custom-coded business intelligence tool with Tableau Server as the global backbone of our client data visualization and analytics platform. In this session, we will share our journey from a few Tableau Desktop users, to a fully deployed and adopted client-facing technology solution. We will cover technical deployment, cloud configuration/architecture, adoption and usage, and data feed integration strategies. We will guide you through creating a branded secure web portal, to publishing visualizations created by different software tools through Tableau Server. Ultimately you will learn how implementing Tableau Server allowed us to put UX and UI decisions in the hands of the front-line business experts and eliminate technical coding as the bottleneck to continuous product improvement.

In this session, you will learn how to analyze metrics over different periods of time using advanced table and date calculations (e.g. for year to date vs. previous year to date comparison). You will get to know best practices for visualizing KPI's and actual versus target analysis, and how to combine these visualizations into a well-structured scorecard.

Cloudera uses Tableau to enable our marketing team to provide relevant advertising to the right accounts at exactly the right time. We enable our sales team to predict a prospect’s next move—before the prospect even knew they what they wanted. Always-on advertising, actionable insights for sales, historical trending, and machine learning are all part of Cloudera's secret sauce. Join us to learn more!

Students’ college preparedness and success are key performance indicators for any school district. However, measuring these outcomes is usually limited to graduation rates or performance on college entrance exams. In this session, the Cherry Creek School District will share visualization tools that track graduates beyond high school as they travel on the road to and through college. Blending local data with data from the National Student Clearinghouse and the USDOE’s College Scorecard database, we'll demonstrate how we incorporate geographical maps with various measures of college enrollment, including where students attend college, the types of colleges they attend, and the selectivity of various institutions. Visualizations will be shared that depict degrees earned and comparison percentages of high school graduation versus college enrollment.

Digital marketers collect astronomical amounts of client data. The challenge is turning that data into a performance story—one that’s comprehensive but still easy to understand and that can be mined for business insights. Elite SEM, a performance-driven digital agency, leverages Tableau to distill oceans of data into clear, actionable wisdom for Tommy Bahama, Hugo Boss, San Antonio Spurs, Terminix, and other leading brands. In this session we’ll explain: - How we use Tableau to quickly communicate the lessons living inside massive datasets - How we streamlined our visual analytics by creating a single source of truth for our entire data ecosystem - How we created a framework for efficiently producing both standard, template-based dashboards and custom reports - How we connect our team to client data

Visualization best practices are baked into Tableau by design, which makes creating beautiful, effective visualizations easy, but transitioning to such reports may not happen overnight. Moving incrementally can avoid jarring your audience with a complete redesign of familiar dashboards and the ability to iterate quickly can make Tableau a great tool for a journey to more effective reporting, but the biggest obstacle on this path is often the very first step. How can you migrate legacy reports to Tableau as literally as possible? Why is it so hard and what are some subtle enhancements that you can incorporate to slowly build support for better visualization?

Whether it’s for fun, for practice, for activism, or for pure curiosity, creating your own visualizations and putting them out in public has a tremendous upside—for you, your company, and the world. It doesn't have to be scary! In this talk, we will discuss various facets of public visualizations such as how to start vizzing in public, common design pitfalls to watch for, how to get comfortable with not succeeding, and much more.

As part of the creation of a platform to enable a drive to transform digital procurement at the at Mondelez International, we had two objectives. First, creating one central data repository (HANA) to house purchase order transactions and invoice transactions. And second, a way to visualize and support the analysis (Tableau) leveraging all data elements relevant to these transactions. Learn how we supported a standard solution to drive business process efficiencies, with the end result of cost savings and cash generation across our global operation.

This story-driven, Buzzfeed-style talk will introduce you to other real-life Tableau Server admins and address what makes them successful. We'll cover the best practices every admin should adopt to help them run their deployment smoothly, recover from problems quickly, empower their users, and maximize the value of Tableau.

Join us for an early conference networking opportunity to engage with fellow data geeks working in the Retail and Consumer Goods industry. This gathering provides a casual environment and offers a quick preview of the TC18 Retail and Consumer Goods track and a really cool demo.

Join this session to learn more about each of the four different calculation types in Tableau. This session is designed for those who would like to take the 'analytics' in their 'visual analytics' to the next level.

The perfect place for some geographic data is in the background—as a layer in a custom Mapbox map. Come prepared to talk about your data, and to witness a demo ranging from the simple to the most complex cases.

Have you ever been asked: - to build a pie chart with 100 slices? - to build sparklines that never decrease because partial months are perceived as tanking? - to label every point on a chart? - to replicate an Excel spreadsheet? A day in the life of an analyst is not easy. We often wear multiple hats and become translators for different parts of the business who often don’t understand data, processes, or even the business itself. In this hands-on session, Zen Masters, Pooja and Adam of TheDataDuo.com will walk through real-life business cases, including gathering requirements, building solutions on-the-fly, and delivering artifacts to our stakeholders. You will learn about techniques employed in our environments and how to deal with stakeholders that have limited to zero data literacy.

Are you curious about how Tableau Server scales in your environment with your workbooks? Want the skinny on the best server deployment configuration? Do you want to make sure your Tableau Server upgrade goes smoothly, or verify that the configuration changes you are planning doesn't adversely impact performance? In this session, you'll learn about TabJolt - A "point and run" performance load testing tool written specifically for Tableau Server. You will also learn about capabilities, new features in the latest version of TabJolt, and how to analyze your performance results to make capacity planning decisions.

Come engage with fellow government innovators and enthusiasts. This casual gathering aims to inspire conversations and connections among those in the government industry.

Want to further explore your business intelligence data? OLAP databases like SQL Server Analysis Services and Oracle Essbase are likely the peas to your carrots. In this session, we’ll tackle efficient methods for maximizing the use of Tableau against cubes. (Note: this isn’t a deep-dive into OLAP cubes, and will focus on specific exercises in Tableau.)

Table calculation or LOD expression? This session will provide you with a framework for making that choice. Learn about relevant parts of the calculation pipeline, performance implications, and the suitability for the scenario at hand. And, of course, you will hear real-world examples to illustrate each of these points.

In two years’ time, Deutsche Bank’s Tableau adoption has grown exponentially. To support this growing demand and align to bank-wide strategic goals, Deutsche Bank set up a global Center of Practice. This session will walk you through the real-life story of Tableau adoption within a diverse global landscape; from its small beginnings to a dynamic and comprehensive phenomenon. You will hear from one of our Sr. Managers who spearheaded the initial launch of Tableau and how their challenges were met through the construct of the Centre of Practice. We’ll highlight our evolving solution to support enablement, empowerment and enhanced collaboration of our global community through informative intranet sites, interactive discussion boards, virtual classrooms / self-paced training, and business-orientated Tableau ambassadors. Learn what is contributing to our early success and what we plan to implement to keep the momentum moving forward.

Customer Acquisition and retention are essential in the increasingly competitive world of financial services to survive. Through real business cases, learn how to leverage Tableau to better understand customers, allowing for quick discovery of commercial opportunities and hidden sale potentials.

In this session you will learn:
- How to better understand customers using visual analytics
- How to find undiscovered commercial opportunities quickly and easily
- How to find actionable sale potentials

Calling all business-minded brainiacs. For those who’ve pondered insights such as “How does one department’s percentage contribution compare to total revenue?” or “How did one division's contribution change over time?”, this session is for you. Acquire deeper analysis abilities via Table Calculations We’ll run you through the basics—how they work, when to use them, why they’re helpful, etc. Attendees should be able to write basic calculations and build basic visualizations for this session.

Have you ever felt that you are not getting the full potential out of sets? Join this session to learn more about how sets can be used to answer powerful analytics questions and discuss their various strengths and limitations. Expect to explore many ways sets are used to support deep analysis in Tableau.

Built on a strong track record of success, Accenture’s partnership with Tableau provides innovation and repeatable offerings across the Tableau platform. Accenture has a breadth of Tableau knowledge and expertise with 3,100+ global skilled resources, 6 Delivery Centers of Excellence and successful delivery of 150+ joint deployments. In this session, Accenture will showcase Accenture’s Visual Intelligence and Analytics depth of knowledge and experience leveraging Tableau in various offerings, assets and solutions such as Retail and Financial Services. Come and learn how we can help you transform and analyze your business with powerful business insights on demand.

Wondering how to deploy an IoT solution that could bring tremendous value to your organization? Get inspired by compelling Tableau Customer IoT journeys, ranging from small businesses willing to unlock new opportunities from sensor data, to the largest enterprises providing IoT Platforms, Solutions and Expertise As A Service. In addition, we'll show live on stage a way to jump-start your IoT project with a flexible platform that can be tailored to your needs, by leveraging AWS and Tableau.

So, you've deployed Tableau and have 100 users? Are you ready for that 100 to become 1,000 users? What about 10,000? Tableau is a great tool and can spread like a virus. Join this session, led by Paul—who’s grown his Tableau Centre of Excellence from zero to 13,000 users, while maintaining a solid, affordable deployment with an engaged user base and dynamic community. Learn top tips for scaling your service, such as: scaling your infrastructure, monitoring performance, capacity, organizing your team and support, and more.

Are you fumbling around with FIXED calculations, hoping to gain some ground?  Using an NFL Football Plays dataset, this session will sweep through the syntax, prefixes, and practical use cases of LOD expressions to solve complex problems.  Gain tips and tricks to learn how to run all of the key plays needed to be an LOD MVP.

The small analytics team at Artisan Partners manages over 70 Tableau Desktop users and 370 Tableau Server users with minimal effort thanks to our scalable security model, training of business users, and monitoring via Tableau’s PostgreSQL database. Learn how to develop a successful self-service strategy and implementation plan that empowers users to ask and answer their own questions. Create allies among the business, IT, and data governance by providing transparency. Walk away with clear action items (and a pre-built workbook!) that are easy to implement.

Do you want to build visualizations that help your city or agency prioritize capital improvements? Direct resources to at-risk neighborhoods? Improve emergency operations? Increase cross-departmental collaboration? A major impediment to city staff making well-informed decisions that support equitable, long-term solutions is the lack of reliable data presented in an easy-to-understand format. Using open data in Tableau can help you solve that problem. In this session, learn how Headwaters Economics is using Tableau and U.S. Census data to provide cities across the country with access to up-to-date, neighborhood-level information about at-risk people and their vulnerability to the impacts from climate change. Learn lessons for developing Tableau tools for your city or agency. Headwaters Economics will share examples and design practices that have resulted from working directly with municipal staff.

Join this session to learn how the unlikeliest of places - your company's restrooms, for example - can inspire knowledge workers across the enterprise to adopt visualization best practices and up their Tableau game. In this session you'll hear from the creator of an internal periodical with a global reach of thousands and an editorial board including a former Tableau Iron Viz Champion who will share his lessons learned—one year into an experiment to turn bathroom walls at Facebook into a canvas for data viz best practices.

One of the traditional defining principles of data visualization is that the data should drive the design. In fact, google "design-driven data" and, bar only a few exceptions, most results will still have those words in the order "data-driven design." In this session, learn how it’s possible to take an alternative look at data visualization by using real-world designs to create visualizations or data art pieces which remain true to the underlying data. The result is not just a chance to have fun and be creative, but in learning how to work with Tableau to create unusual and eye-catching visualizations, as well as developing a more creative eye, you may gain more technical skills along the way to take into future projects.