Sessions

Tableau Prep introduces a powerful tool for cleaning data. You can make quick inline edits or make changes that allow you to replace multiple values with a single value. Learn about the group and replace model and clustering in Tableau Prep, some common use cases, and pitfalls to avoid.

Today there is way too much data to manually analyze and a data scientist shortage. Stop waiting for data scientists and learn how you can accelerate insight to action with no-code DataRobot automated machine learning. If you want to deliver proactive insights that optimize bottom line results, learn how combining Tableau with DataRobot can help you focus on what matters most, find hidden patterns, and easily apply AI to solve complex problems smarter and faster than ever before. In this workshop, Scot Barton, Head of Business Insurance R&D at Farmers Insurance and former Tableau Zen Master, Jen Underwood, will introduce automated machine learning and teach you how to get started using DataRobot with Tableau. They will cover when to use machine learning, how to build automated machine learning models, and how to best visualize and explain predictions with beautiful, brilliant Tableau dashboards. Workshop participants will: Learn common business use cases for “intelligent” dashboards Understand how to get started using DataRobot automated machine learning Explore the new DataRobot extension and other integration options Build an intelligent dashboard "hands-on" using Tableau Desktop

Are you struggling to make sense of your survey data? Understanding the steps to prepare survey data for analysis is key to be able to then easily analyze that data. This session will cover reshaping, cleaning data in Tableau Prep and finally visualizing survey data in Tableau Desktop.

Bring out the magic from your data and create impactful visualizations and meaningful data stories. In this talk we show how you can achieve powerful performance and effective storytelling with the right tools and a smart approach. We will take you through a live demo and leave you with our recommended best practices for tackling large data volumes in Exasol, visualized quickly in Tableau. Join us for a session packed with tips, real business scenarios and some visual inspiration.

In a single year, Lumentum has established data analytics in over 80% of their revenue generating portfolio. By using Tableau Online, Lumentum reached over 30% of key executives, engineers, and customers within the first year; and doubled their user base year over year. This session will explore the continuous journey of transforming a company by connecting people with their data to drive a zero defect culture. We will present our story, supported by examples of tools and our own developed Tableau dashboards.

You will learn about:
- How Tableau enabled us to consume variable data sources, and produce a single source of truth
- How we utilize Tableau Online and Tableau Prep to make manufacturing processes transparent
- Why treating data analytics as a team sport enabled rapid change
- How to engage users by hosting onsite Tableau Day
- Tools and Expansion as we drive a zero defect culture as data driven community

Get ready to amp up your geographic data skills! This session spearheads mapping in Tableau. Learn the basic features of maps within Tableau, best practices, and visual customization features using your favorite movie data. We'll teach you the basics of mapping in Tableau Desktop, map latitude and longitude points, paths within your own data, and how to build multi-layered maps using dual axes, out-of-the-box map layers, and custom background images.

Join us for a rich discussion on important topics within the Data + Women Community. In addition to notable women contributors to our community, you’ll hear from customers and Tableau leaders alike about the challenges they’ve faced, the inspirations with which they have built their lives and careers, and—most importantly—how we can grow and succeed together collaboratively. #visualizediversity

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

Tableau Prep has a lot in store for the future. Come and get a taste of where we are, and where we're going. Come see some ideas for Tableau Prep that are in the works, that are planned, or that are currently just ideas. Help shape what you think is important!

This demo-heavy session will deliver a wide range of mapping features in Tableau. You’ll leave this session understanding how to build several different maps using geocoding and spatial connectors. We’ll dive into best practices and uncover some common mistakes and how to correct them. Expect to learn how to use the superstore data set to get started, how to define and use spatial files, and how to build a dashboard that uses multiple vizzes (including a map) within a scenario to uncover outliers or interesting data.

This session offers a brief overview of the new European Union General Data Privacy Regulation (GDPR) and shows you how use Tableau products to analyze, present, and store personal data successfully in the GDPR world.

There are many choices when it comes to chart types. While bar charts may seem “boring” compared to bubble charts, each graphic has its pros and cons when it comes to visualizing data. Given a business question, one may want to examine a relationship or look at times series data. A bar chart, while familiar, is actually structured in an efficient way for humans to compare length of bar, and thus rank items well.

This session aims to equip participants with a specific process to weigh the pros and cons, and ultimately, choose the right visualization to get the insights they need from their data. This interactive session will include real-world examples from professional services customers.

Do you question if your visualizations lead to actionable decisions? Do you struggle with helping users who are tantalized by pretty visuals but missing inspiring insights? Do your users change what they want on a regular basis?Hear a Tableau Zen Master Hall-of-Famer and a relative neophyte discuss four easy-to-understand principles guiding the development of impactful and useful visualizations in the global health space. In this session you’ll learn:1. An iterative and easy-to-understand method that takes visualization users through a process of engaging with data and creating visualizations that adapts to changing user needs.2. Best practices and lessons from global health that help users expose, explore and explain their data.3. Approaches empowering users to continue to build their skills and visualization competency.

This session will tell the visual analytics journey of how Morgan Stanley Wealth Management’s Tableau installation grew from a small group of 30 to an enterprise rollout of 30,000. We will take the attendees along a three-year journey as the team grew from Tableau in the hands of a few viz-starved consumers, to a full enterprise rollout. Along this journey, attendees will learn about the challenges and lessons learned while building a culture of analytics and growing our COE. They will also learn about the agile approach we deployed to jump to enterprise adoption. Oh, and see some incredible vizzes created along the way!

AI has created the single biggest technology revolution the world has ever seen. Clients need to be shown how they can accelerate and automate data processing and realization. Allowing AI to uncover the real opportunities that turn that data processing into business improvements. By using automation and virtually enabling visualizations with AI we can allow businesses to achieve their goals the right way— not just by sharing information, but by empowering the users with information so that they can achieve the goals.

Natural language has garnered interest as a useful modality for users to converse with data and visualizations. Understanding intents behind input queries is a way of understanding a user’s analytical needs. In this talk, we explore how we can better address intent using principles from linguistics and visual analytics. With examples and demos from both our engineering and research teams, we hope to indulge you one (analytical) conversation at a time.

See how the US Department of Navy uses Tableau to visualize enterprise acquisition, procurement trends and metrics to aid in decision making, while leveraging predictive analytics to improve future buying outcomes. The e-business team within the Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Navy's Acquisition and Procurement team (DASN/AP) will share how they selected, designed, implemented, and operated their KNIME and Tableau environment to meet their unique mission needs. Expect to see sample dashboards and predictive analytics driving data-driven decision making such as: - Current and historical procurement trends and metrics - Strategic sourcing and workload balancing analytics - Near real-time transaction throughput tracking - Total time and cost to procure a specific item - Predict future transmission and payment problems - Predict negative vendor/ contract outcomes in support of risk management

Are you moving to Tableau Online and wondering how to learn the best approaches and practices from those that have gone before you? Do you want to make the most out of your Tableau Online as a platform investment? If so, this session is for you.

The session will walk you through the best practices, techniques, and tools you can use to have an effective onboarding journey to Tableau Online, from early planning all the way to fostering adoption. We will look at Tableau Online deployment planning, data management strategy, user onboarding, security, and governance. You will learn how the time you spend planning your deployment and onboarding processes will save your organization tons of effort later. We will also show you some new product features to help you engage your users from the start, including inviting users, creating initial content, and leveraging usage data to measure adoption. When you implement these paradigms, and use the tools suggested here, your users will be well on their way to a self-service data analytic culture.

Kick off your Tableau Conference experience by engaging with fellow banking, insurance, wealth management and capital markets enthusiasts. This informative, casual gathering aims to inspire conversations and connections among those across financial services.

Tableau helps people quickly analyze their data. But what if an application was designed with an incomplete understanding of the problem domain, and a data model doesn’t exist? In this session, we will explore how users can leverage Tableau’s Extract API to create data models. We will share our use-case—how we created one of the world’s first data models for analyzing patient continuous infusion drugs, as well as the five-minute version of how Texas Children’s Hospital is leveraging this data to better treat critically ill pediatric patients. Finally, we will focus on the nuts and bolts of the Extract API, review our use-case in detail, jump into the Extract API, and walk everyone through a step-by-step of creating their first data model.

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.

A common complaint regarding data analysis is simply getting access to the necessary data… What if the underlying metadata could be aggregated and made available to business users to increase efficiency, save money, improve data quality and most importantly derive actionable insights from the data analysis (rather than intuition alone)?!

Attendees will get a firsthand look at how Sony Pictures Entertainment is utilizing Tableau to aggregate disparate film metadata. This new tool assists operating divisions to make better data-driven decisions and enable collaboration to break down data silos quicker. Practical Tableau dashboard tips and tricks will also be shared.

In 1994, a few thousand runners participated in the first Walt Disney World Marathon. 25 years later, Walt Disney World hosts several of the largest races in the United States. A visualized history of runDisney events is presented to illustrate the differences in participant behavior compared to other similarly sized non-Disney running events. This session uses Tableau to investigate how the behavior of runDisney participants has changed over time and compares this behavior to select non-Disney events across the 25-year history of running at Disney World. Visualization enthusiasts will appreciate the advanced chart types, complex calculations and data manipulation required to create Tableau visualizations from publicly posted runDisney race results.

Get the inside scoop on developing dashboard extensions. What do you need to know to develop a dashboard extension? Is a dashboard extension hard to build? What steps are needed to build a dashboard extension? What are some of the possibilities of a dashboard extension?

The performance of your Tableau Server deployment can make or break your users' experiences, and the acceptance of Tableau within your organization. Let's roll up our sleeves and take a deep dive into understanding how different components of Tableau Server work together, and how to maximize your deployment's performance. Learn about tools and methods to monitor the performance of your deployment and diagnose underlying problems. Gain a deeper understanding of how workbook load times, backgrounder schedules, query performance, and virtual machines all have on your system as a whole.

Companies around the world are transforming their businesses by moving to the cloud. Considering moving your Tableau or data platforms to the cloud? Contemplating a next-gen cloud-based data warehouse? Join us for a hands-on walkthrough of key cloud deployment data points. The session will cover Tableau Server topics like improved High Availability and Disaster Recovery options, dynamic provisioning, and elastic cluster configuration. Diving a bit deeper into data warehousing, we’ll cover the basics and investigate topics like data localization, elastic computing, streaming, and multi-cloud solutions within data platforms like Snowflake, Azure, and AWS. Learn from InterWorks’ global consulting team as well as companies like Tableau who’ve made the switch to cloud. Take home key roadmap components and the top five most crucial steps you’ll need to know on your journey to the clouds.

Attendees will learn about HDFC Bank and its journey from zero to 26,500 users in 3 years. The speaker will discuss the initial deployment to the Wholesale bank department, how HDFC’s monthly reporting cycle was compress to a daily dashboards, and discuss challenges encountered when rolling Tableau out to HDFC’s retail branches.

How do you keep talent coming in the door fast enough when you are experiencing hyper growth? How do you maintain a qualified and diverse workforce, while filling roles to meet the business needs? How do you ensure you are using interviewers time efficiently? Hear from the Heather Torres, Head of People Analytics at Lyft, on how to shift the company from manual tracking to a custom backend solution for delivering key metrics on the organization performance.

Have you heard about dashboard extensions, but don't how to use them or which are available to you? In this session, we'll show you five dashboard extensions that are available to everyone.

Flex is ushering in the Age of Intelligence by delivering insights, cultivating ideas, and pushing boundaries. Through leadership in design, engineering and manufacturing digitization, Flex is on a mission to put supply chain management at the heart of a smarter, more connected world. In support of that goal, FlexPulse is a purpose-built platform which takes our supply chain data and delivers it in an insightful and actionable form. Join us to get an overview of our Pulse environment, its evolution, and how we partner with Tableau in our journey from data to Intelligence.

Spotify uses Tableau Public as a storytelling tool to share interesting insights about music, artists, and global listening behavior. Spotify Data Visualization Designer, Skyler Johnson, walks through several projects that combine Tableau Public and Spotify data. Alongside each story, learn a Tableau trick or visualization style that helped make each visualization possible, and walk away inspired to think about your own data in a different way.

Go big with Tableau! Are you planning to broadly deploy Tableau? Have you already put data in the hands of every user in your organization? Well this meetup is for you. Join your peers to network and exchange ideas for deploying at scale.

Ever wondered whether you can create something completely custom in Tableau? Have you come up with an amazing concept, only to be told it cannot be done? Do you feel like D3 and R are your only options? Think again. This session will demonstrate how to create custom charts in Tableau through math, data restructuring, and some Jedi Tableau hacking. Come along with three Tableau Zen Masters for an in-depth view of how to create completely custom visualizations. Attendees of this session will expand their knowledge of Tableau, learning the advanced (sometimes hacky) techniques used by these Zens to build innovative visualizations with Tableau.

In order to stay competitive, organizations are increasingly relying on data science to make decisions. However, small teams of data scientists may not have the bandwidth to meet the increasing demands of internal or external customers. One solution to this challenge is to combine the power of Tableau with the scalability and flexibility of the web. In this talk we'll demo a live web portal with embedded Tableau vizzes and data science models that users can query via parameters and visualize in real time!

This session goes beyond Tableau's R/Python integration by persisting tables of output from a model, leveraging the performance of a database, and supporting different inputs/outputs than the Tableau viz LOD. If you're interested in learning the building blocks and Tableau APIs required to make this a reality, then this session is for you!

Tableau users are naturally more likely to adopt a dashboard if it feels familiar and customized for them. With so many options of how to format in Tableau, it can sometimes feel daunting to be assigned the task of implementing a seamless and repeatable corporate standard. In this session, you will learn how to create a unified look and theme across dashboards in Tableau Desktop, Tableau Server and on mobile devices, without even needed a degree in graphic design. You will also learn how to provide templates for your designs to be reused by others. Finally, the session will cover how to customize your Tableau Server interface or use the Javascript API to take advantage of existing user portals.

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!

You know the feeling. You’re in a meeting and the slides are terrible. It’s the charts! They’re too complicated or virtually unreadable. Don’t be that person. To inform, persuade, and inspire data-driven conversations, your charts must send a message effectively. Andy Cotgreave has attended thousands of meetings and seen all the mistakes. (He’s even made some himself.) Here, he’ll share his tips for making successful big-screen charts. He’ll cover several areas: types of charts for presentations, chart design for big screens, and the physical aspect of presenting charts. After this session, your presentations will make people lean in, not lean out.

Actions in Tableau put the interactive in Data Analysis! This session aims to provide a solid foundation for building rich dashboard applications and will cover best-practices for using Actions. At the end of this session, you will be able effectively consider and apply various interactive techniques, including action triggers and behavior within and across sheets. We’ll discuss: selection, filtering highlighting, navigation, and the *new* set action feature. We will also cover parameters, instant analytics, tooltips, and more!  

Have you ever expected one thing but something else happened? During the execution of a visualization, it’s important to understand the order of how things get done in Tableau. During this session, we will cover the order of when things happen—from data source filters, context filters and top N filters, to table calculations, trend lines and reference lines.

Fan of all things Tableau? Join Fanalyitcs for the ultimate gathering of Tableau Public authors. Expect inspiring presentations, passionate discussions, and exciting data workshops. Drinks will be available to keep the atmosphere bubbly, but seating is filled on a first-come basis, so be sure to arrive early! 

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?

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

Founded and run by Tableau Zen Master Chloe Tseng, Viz for Social Good is a community project that helps mission-driven organizations harness the power of data visualization for social change. Viz for Social Good has been named a finalist in the Fast Company's 2018 World Changing Ideas Awards and was awarded a Silver at the 2017 Information is Beautiful Awards.

Join Chloe for a brief introduction to this initiative, then meet and viz with your fellow attendees on the latest project for Kevin Richardson Foundation to help change and reverse the state of Africa’s declining lion population. All are welcome, whatever your level of experience from absolute beginner to accomplished vizzer, just be sure to bring your laptops!

Hiring great Tableau developers is one way to get results! What if you could motivate people to learn, keep them engaged, improve culture and coach them to build their skills?!

Motivating Science + Game Design = Making Magic Happen! 

Join this session to takeaway your own gamification program: The Tableau Quest.  See how organisations are using this learning framework, enabling people to build best in class viz capabilities.  Learn how to level up! Layering training, challenges and certification with tips and tricks to motivate, collaborate, and most importantly - have fun!

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.

Ready to master the art of Tableau? In this session, learn best practices for visual analysis in Tableau, master some core Tableau concepts, and gain useful tips that'll ensure you become a data rock star. You'll discover more about preparing your data in Tableau, customizing fields in your data, exploring your data by asking questions and building views to find answers, creating dynamic views and filtering views, and building interactive dashboards.

Crete Carrier Corporation is a national trucking company. After going to Tableau Conference last year, we realized that we have untapped potential to use geodata to improve our workflow. With Tableau beginning to introduce Microsoft SQL Spatial Data into the product lineup, there was no better time to start working on this. In this session we will walk you through our journey of spatial data implementation and share specific use cases. We'll discuss identifying available geodata, how to store that data in MSSQL for use in Tableau, and how to run various spatial queries to display in Tableau.

Learn what joins look like in Tableau Prep. Here we will show you how to create joins, but more importantly, how to understand what your join has done. Even if you’re already a left-semi-anti-join expert, you’ll probably learn something about joining with Tableau Prep.

Have you ever wanted to build network graphs in Tableau? Are you interested in seeing Tableau connect to graph databases or visualizing relationships in traditional databases? Come to this networking opportunity to talk to the Tableau product team about your scenarios and the types of analysis you would like to do on relationships (graphs) with Tableau.

You've learned about actions and interactivity, but how do you truly implement a “guided analytics” approach where performance and user experience live in perfect harmony? This session will empower you to combine numerous techniques to create truly snappy and engaging dashboards that your users will love.