Sessions

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.

Are you an IT pro? Lean best practices for installing, registering, and licensing Tableau Desktop and Tableau Prep. Understand how and when to use the different authentication types.

The modern office of finance is using Tableau to become more efficient and improve the support they provide their businesses. Join us for a special networking opportunity to learn from others who have seen the power of Tableau first hand. This gathering provides a casual environment to connect with people with a shared interest and encourage inspired conversation. Topics will be selected by the audience with guidance from leaders in Tableau's finance department.

Every company is sitting on top of an exponentially increasing amount of data without making the most of it. We all know Tableau helps to make sense out of data but have you considered integrating Tableau into your existing applications? This session will jumpstart your Tableau JavaScript API skills with a live demo showing what is possible and what our customers are doing today. At the end of the session you’ll have a better understanding of all the ways the Tableau JavaScript API can work for you! #TableauJsApi.

Join Tableau Zen Master and MBA teacher and learn how to teach others to answer a business question using Tableau in just a two-day class. Expect a technique that mixes practice, theory and a data challenge. Learn ideal class structure, key Tableau concepts (and how they should be explained), and data visualization best practices.

Toronto is Canada's most populated city and home to its wealthiest demographic, yet more than one in four children live in poverty. Raising the Village is an initiative that uses Tableau to mobilize and translate child well-being data. This session will highlight how Tableau is used to integrate data from multiple population-level data sources and display information by neighborhood, race, income and gender. Interactive Tableau dashboards are now being used by community organizations, governments, and policy makers across Toronto to support evidence-informed decision making. This session will also highlight the deployment of Tableau Online to support the increased use of Tableau for internal municipal government planning decisions, and will outline a long-term plan to build a culture of analytics for an important cause.

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.

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!

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.

Actionable data and timely analytics are vital for understanding and addressing the challenges of our global community. People around the world have answered the call and are leveraging Tableau to take on issues of peace and security, health, sustainable development and prosperity, and justice, and all around drive forward progress on the Sustainable Development Goals. Prepare to laugh, cry, and be all around amazed and inspired to take action on your own as the dedicated Tableau team that supports the United Nations globally showcases #DoGoodData - a collection of the most impactful hits - in action.

Are you a newbie in the world of Tableau Server management? Kick-start your admin skills with this stellar course. What we’ll cover: adding users, organizing content, setting permissions, and leveraging Tableau Data Server. What this course won’t cover: a deep-dive into authentication or APIs. Please come with a basic understanding of the Tableau workflow and some familiarity with the Tableau Server interface.

Did you join us at Monday's healthcare meetup? If not, don't worry. This meetup is focused on engaging with fellow healthcare enthusiasts and sharing Tableau best practices. This gathering provides a casual environment to connect with people with a shared interest in healthcare and encourage inspired conversation.

You’ve enjoyed two years of speed tipping—courtesy of Zen Master Hall of Fame member Andy Kriebel and Zen Master Jeffrey Shaffer. Now join this exciting session and watch the torch get passed on to two new community members. Community all-star Lorna Eden and Zen Master Ann Jackson will take the stage and engage in an all new round of speed tipping. Andy and Jeffrey will be there to keep score and ensure a fair fight. Can the new challengers reach 100 tips?

Are you looking to increase your dashboard views? Do you need one place to tell your story? Portal pages are a great way to keep your users targeted and engaged, while making Tableau the star of the show. This session will provide all the information needed to create portal pages within your organization. Topics will include: • KeyBank’s journey into portals • How portals have forced our analysts to become closer to our users • Getting started with a few simple tools (Tableau Server/Tableau API/HTML/Notepad++) • Designing your portals “like the internet” for users of all technical skills • Structuring your portals to be modular & scalable to create a similar look and feel • Best practices to make your portals shine

Way to go! You are now well on your way with using Tableau and discovering great insights. Curious how you can export these insights and share them outside Tableau? Come learn more about the exporting options that Tableau has to offer. Expect demonstrations in this session.

Have you ever had to rebuild the same ad-hoc reports for clients because they don’t have access to necessary datasets? What if there was a way to provide an extremely flexible, self-sufficient tool that would allow your clients to build their own visualizations and charts—while keeping your data security team happy? Welcome to Tableau Web Authoring! In this session you'll hear how two very separate teams within DISH successfully implemented Tableau Web Authoring tool in programs that allowed their colleagues and clients to help build reporting and make data-driven decisions on their own. In this presentation, we will share: - Use cases to consider when implementing a Tableau Web Authoring strategy - Best practices when building a training curriculum to help your end-users be successful

Everyone loves a good map (especially your boss), but for the last few years, doing more with your maps has required multiple tools beyond Tableau. Too many tools, too many techniques that require long blog posts to understand, and too many times “That’s only possible with the Javascript API”. You’ve been waiting for your DeLorean and it still hasn’t arrived. Fear not, for Mapbox and Tableau are here to bring you the future of maps, today. In this session, we’ll cover how to solve your biggest mapping challenges all within the Tableau platform, from the most basic styling to address-level geocoding to doing drive-time analysis, with a few surprises thrown in. When we’re done, you can hop on your hoverboard and take it all home with you.

Think you have what it takes to be a Tableau Jedi? We’ve scoured the universe for the toughest calculations known to mankind and bring them to you. Come test out your calculation skills in this trial-by-fire desktop challenge session. We’ll dare you to solve questions that hit on Pareto calcs, Trellis charts, data blending, table calcs and more! Expect to tackle the hardest calcs in Tableau, learn the theory behind them, work with your classmates, and become a Jedi Master!

Why sit alone during lunch when you could chow down with fellow data geeks supporting K-12 education? Join members of Tableau's education team at a reserved table in Data Village and connect with your peers.

As the industry leader and pioneer of mobile satellite communications, Inmarsat has been powering global connectivity for four decades. In 2016, Inmarsat purchased Tableau licenses for the business and paid off the entire investment with one simple workbook. But where do you go from there? The trouble with a six-figure ROI within 12 months is the expectation for better in year two. Come along to this session to hear how Inmarsat employees are building on this previous success story and see dashboards that are worth their weight in gold.

Craving a viz that’s outside the box? Tableau’s SHOW ME feature is stellar—but sometimes something more specific is desired. Join this session and explore the multitude of chart types possible in Tableau. Learn how to build a Chord Diagrams, Waterfall Charts, Comet Charts, Radial Bar Charts, Marimekkos, Shape Fills and Skyline charts (All Charts TBD). We’ll also discuss the pros and cons of each chart, where you can find a good blog post on each viz, and briefly explore additional popular charts that are possible with Tableau.

Tableau makes exploring your data easy, but what do you do when that data is locked away behind a web service? Is copying or exporting all your data the only hope? Want to connect to web data sources in Tableau and explore them like any other data source? This session discusses Tableau Web Data Connectors and their ability to unlock new sources and easily bring your data into Tableau from both internal and external web services. Together we will write a simple connector then walk through the steps to build, debug, and share the final connector.

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.

Are you responsible for managing data governance in your organization? Have you been responsible and want to share your experience? Join us for a special networking opportunity to discuss the fun and challenges of data governance. This gathering provides a casual environment to connect with your peers and encourage inspired conversation.

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.

Several of our customers have deployed Tableau on large and complex data sources. Ensuring performant and efficient deployments that scale to a large number of users entails clever design choices, the best-of-breed agile architectures that optimize data storage and compute resources, as well as intelligently crafted workbooks. Join this session to learn some best practices derived from real-world customer examples and lab tests, to visualize and architect big data for performance at scale and with agility.

Join us for a special networking opportunity to talk about all things security. Don't miss this great opportunity to connect with Tableau developers, ask questions, and provide feedback that can make a difference.

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.

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!

If you want the skinny on what’s going down at the conference, this is the place to be. We’ll let you in on some of the can’t-miss conference moments, provide guidance on selecting sessions, and provide tons of details designed to help you get the most out of your TC experience.

Product managers Jason Burns (from Tableau) and Tom Slee (from SAP) will jointly present best practices, and things you should know about using Tableau on top of SAP HANA for the best possible experience and performance.

Learn how to apply UX design principles to your dashboard creation process. Learn how to build dashboards that are more effective and appropriate for the audience they're intended for.

This session will cover how the Field Service Business Insights Team at Cox Communications leverages Tableau to create enterprise solutions and enable decision science. We'll discuss how to create decision enablement tools that drive improved customer satisfaction and better business processes by helping evaluate the current state, improvement opportunities, and improvement strategy. The session will include examples of interactive dashboard tools along with specific design elements and the impact they have on process improvement and transaction reduction.

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.

Did you know 422 people die every day from lung cancer, but survival rates are five times higher with early detection? Or that suicide is the second leading cause of death among young adults, but a friend’s support can intervene? You’ve been to sessions on how big data and Tableau can be used to increase profits. Attend this session to learn how they are used to make the world better.

For over 75 years, the Ad Council’s mission has been to stimulate action on significant public issues through communications programs. We partner with leading non-profit and government organizations on over 40 campaigns which together garner 1B in donated media annually. Hear how we measure our impact using:
- A proprietary database of results on KPIs
- Tableau dashboards to visualize performance
- Our marketing mix model built with Alteryx and Tableau to calculate ROI and optimize the media mix

Want to hit the ground running with advanced data analytics? No sweat! In this session, you’ll learn how to use an ELT approach to maximize your data integration performance; extracting data from multiple source systems, loading it into your data warehouse (at speed!) and conducting complex transformations directly on the data warehouse itself, before pushing the output to Tableau for visualization. We’ll be using data collected from the Strava API, supplemented with additional public data sets for deeper analysis of logged activities. You’ll see how to use Matillion ETL to load and transform this data on Snowflake, before highlighting some best-practices in Tableau, to generate the visual insights your business needs.

In this session, you'll learn how to use Tableau Server open source tools like Scout and Replayer to perform basic acceptance testing and to measure user-perceived performance. We'll show you how to validate that your workbooks are still working, and that their performance hasn't regressed—after an upgrade of Tableau Server as well.

Data is everywhere. Now more than ever, users expect to have access to what they need when they need it—all at their fingertips. Matt Lewandowski, Analytics Team Lead at digital agency DEG, will demonstrate how to make the most of Tableau's device layout feature, maximizing every pixel on your mobile dashboards. He'll share design best-practices, the do's and don’ts of deploying mobile layouts, and how to scale mobile and tablet dashboards to meet your organization's growing needs. By using thoughtful design, attendees will leave this session with a better understanding of—and actionable takeaways for—strategies and best practices for enabling an optimized mobile experience with a relatively low level of effort.

If your organization is considering a move to our role-based offerings, wouldn’t it be great to understand your current user-mix? Learn to have a look at your deployment to see who is logging in, how often, what they are doing, and how much your users are engaging with their data and analytics.

The Marketing Analytics team at Tableau has been working on a large-scale marketing attribution analysis that involves building up our comprehensive customer journey data across many marketing channels, and attributing true effect of marketing to these channels. We use a combination of Markov Chain Model and traditional Media Mix Model to produce a simulation of how spend across channels impact leads and revenue. Along the way, we uncovered the power of visualization in making complex models accessible to end-users, and helping everyone “see” the model. In this session, you will not only see how Tableau as a marketer tackles one of the most challenging problems in marketing, but also see the power of using Tableau as a tool to bring down barriers to understanding sophisticated models.

This session will talk about JDBC connectors in Tableau which include Athena (first official one), Oracle, Presto and Generic JDBC (dev in progress). This session will also cover how to enable connecting through JDBC, explore what the customizable capabilities are that can be set to tweak performance, and learn what the pros and cons of VS ODBC are.

This session walks through real-world testing scenarios for Tableau Server. We’ll explain how we use the flexibility of public cloud platforms (primarily AWS) to design and execute Server performance testing that can help users predict how their deployments will operate at scale. We will address general Server performance as well as targeting specific processes, like Hyper. The session will focus on specific testing scenarios we have used internally, to offer a template for Tableau users to follow when designing their own enterprise testing and deployments.

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.

Already deployed Server on Linux? On the fence, but curious to know more? This meetup was assembled with you in mind. Come pose your questions to the Dev team that brought you Server on Linux, and meet others using Linux to learn or share your Linux Server journey.

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

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.

Tableau is working to boost our support for data science workflows by strengthening our integrations for languages like Python and R, as well as popular platforms like MATLAB. As these tools become more common in the market, we want to understand your needs and use cases for statistics and machine learning technologies, and how we can make your experience in Tableau powerful and delightful. Get the latest scoop from the team and share your experiences and ideas to help guide our plans!

Worthington Industries’ steel products are highly customized to end-user specifications. This high-mix, low-volume business makes price optimization using traditional methods difficult. Determining which products/markets to include or exclude from a given comparative analysis is often subjective and can lead to inconsistent recommendations. In our case, machine learning methods resulted in over-fitting due to insufficient training data. Tableau with R allows our analysts to test different market conditions using the power of predictive analytics (logistic regression) in a user-friendly environment. This tool represents the latest evolution in Worthington’s growing adoption of Tableau Server, deploying increasingly sophisticated features to our 50+ users.

Tableau maps have come a long way since their inception. While the basic creation of maps has remained simple and intuitive, the sum of what can be achieved has grown rapidly. The best way to understand where a feature can go is to fully understand how it has developed. During this session, we'll take Tableau maps right back to the beginning, explore default and custom background maps, deep integration of Mapbox, bring custom spatial data into workbooks, and finally see how Tableau can form part of a larger mapping service stack. Interested in fully understanding this powerful Tableau feature? This session is for you!

Tableau faces the same security challenges you do—compliance, incident management, metric tracking, and resourcing. The information security team at Tableau is involved in supporting everything from GDPR compliance to responding to phishing attacks. Learn how we support our audit processes by using Tableau to track issues, monitor for compliance, and communicate with decision-makers. See how we manage accounts by wrangling answers out of multiple data sources. We've successfully tackled our security challenges with data. Let us help you do the same.