Sessions

Come learn how to create and publish dashboards that are accessible to users with a wide variety of disabilities. We’ll learn about the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines and how to apply them in Tableau, so that your dashboards meet Section 508 and EN 301 549 requirements.

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.

What happens when you combine a passion of sports with a love of data and Tableau? You come up with some of the most creative and engaging visualizations around and a community initiative is born. That is the journey that Simon Beaumont, James Smith and Spencer Baucke embarked upon in January 2018 when we were blown away by the increasing quantity and quality of sports vizzes being published to Tableau Public.

All 3 of us are avid sports fans; albeit it across a range of sports, but more importantly all 3 of us share a love for Tableau. In January 2018 we created #SportsVizSunday, an initiative to showcase sports visualizations and to create a sports visualization community, built around creativity and sharing.

In this talk we will share our experience of how we created our community initiative;

- How 3 strangers came together with a simple idea, and now have not only become community leaders in sports visualization but are also close friends
- Using Data Dot World as a platform to share content and promote community discussion
- Utilizing the outstanding Tableau community to identify others with a shared passion and, on a weekly basis, showcase sports viz content via Twitter using the hashtag #SportsVizSunday
- Developing a monthly sporting visualization challenge that has resulted, to date, in over 50 Tableau Public creations from across the globe and has achieved in excess of 5 Tableau Public Viz of the Day and 1 Viz of the Week
- What our plans are for the future and how we will continue to support people to not only showcase their talent but also learn from others

Hear from Tableau about our most recent Diversity & Inclusion initiatives, then join an open conversation to share successes and learnings, be inspired by D&I-minded peers, and gather applicable insights.

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.)

In this session, IDPH is proud to share our path to success in delivering faster and better access to data. Attednees will learn how the Iowa Department of Public Health (IDPH) recovered from an end-of-life legacy platform and a data center on life support. Utilizing Tableau visualizations and shifting from on-site to cloud-based AWS storage, IDPH was able to adopt an enterprise-wide data consumption model. Historically poor or difficult data experiences were transformed by the innovative bite, snack, and meal concept and the flexible, robust Tableau visualizations all while being supported 24/7 through an AWS cloud service.

This is a story about MD Financial Management’s journey from a culture of static performance reporting to enterprise-wide adoption of a dynamic business intelligence ecosystem. We discuss three key aspects of our journey: the data and technology, the analysts, and the end-users. Starting with the challenges of building an open data environment, we describe how we progressed to a world where our financial advisors now have access to a wealth of data and reporting and use it to drive our business forward and increase productivity.

How can you make your organization psyched about Tableau? The key is to encourage and empower people at all levels of your business to embrace the power of Tableau. From battling organizational headwinds to acquiring your agents of change, we'll dive into different tips, tricks, and steps you can take to help flip the script and change a fundamental part of your organization.

Information overload is real. If glancing over your dashboard makes your eyeballs spin in their sockets, this session is for you. We’ll intro you to your new BFF: guided analytics—a design concept that helps you communicate more effectively via interactive dashboard navigation and story points. Learn to use the different types of Tableau Actions that allow end-users to drill down from summary-level data to more granular information. This session will teach you how to guide your audience with story points and encourage self-service data discovery through highly interactive analysis.

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.

With our combined nine-plus years of Tableau experience, we’ve navigated many detours that we wish someone could have told us before we took them. Let our pain become your gain as we go down memory lane. Join us for this jam-packed session where we look back at some of the things that caused us intense frustration. We’ll journey from the initial request, to design/develop, and finally to operationalization. Throughout, we’ll demonstrate small simple tricks, as well as advanced techniques to elevate what you do know in the following areas: customer relations, data integration, design principles, and reporting operationalization.

Oh Canada, Tableau customers unite. This session brings together truly Canadian customer presentations representing many of the geographies and sectors across Canada. Tableau success stands tall coast-to-coast so a great opportunity to network with the Canadian customer contingent at TC18 NOLA.

Anyone can analyze basic social media data in a few steps. But once you’ve started diving into social analytics, how do you bring it to the next level? This session will cover strategies for scaling a social data program. You’ll learn skills such as how to directly connect to your social media data with a Web Data Connector, considerations for building scalable data sources, and tips for using metadata and calculations for more sophisticated analysis.

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.

Alberta Health Services (AHS) is the largest integrated healthcare system in Canada. This presentation will showcase the use of visual analytics to measure financial, operational, staffing, risk, project performance and employee satisfaction in the AHS IT department with 2000+ employees and $ 500 M in annual spend. Key solutions developed will be presented with lessons learned while creating a team, ingesting data from 90+ systems, and delivering 50+ analytics solutions in 9 months.

In 2017, there were 687 deaths related to accidental opioid overdose in Alberta. This presentation will also articulate how AHS is deploying visual analytics for crafting and disseminating actionable surveillance information to various stakeholders and partners, to enable a coordinated response to the opioid crisis in Alberta with measurable impact.

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.

At Jazz Pharmaceuticals we rolled out an innovative digital-sales-aid program (iPad apps with educational information for doctors) for our salesforce. However, we had little visibility into adoption, usage of materials and what our customers found useful. We partnered with ZS Associates to develop MIDAS—dashboards to gain better visibility into rep-customer interactions. Our goal was to convert vast data into insights for management/marketing, and encourage higher usage of these insights. Our result was a 300% increase in utilization in under one year, as well as the creation of a self-diagnosing tool for the sales team. Come learn about our next stop on our data journey, as well as our pains and gains throughout the transition.

Ever wondered how to take inspiration from the Tableau community and put it into practice at work? Over time, Tableau developers at Chick-fil-A have learned a great deal from others (via blogs, social media, attending user groups and conference sessions). We often look to our Tableau heroes for examples of phenomenal dashboards and brilliant design. In this session, we will showcase some of the dashboards we've built at Chick-fil-A that were inspired by the community. Our goal is to highlight ways you can find tips, tricks, and ideas from others and apply what you’ve learned in real life.

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?

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 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.

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

Still maintaining your Tableau users and permissions by hand? Really? Well no more! We will share our experience at Pinnacle Entertainment of creating an automated method for enabling Tableau user access by individual employees across all areas of our Tableau Server projects.

“My boss just dumped a bunch of dashboards in my lap and she says that half of them are broken. Help!” Has this happened to you? In this session, you'll see common issues that cause "broken" dashboards, along with a basic troubleshooting flowchart for fixing them. You'll learn how to locate formulas and filters that might be causing problems, and how to reverse-engineer a dashboard to make improvements, so it’s beautiful and useful for everyone who needs it.

As the health care system undergoes significant change, the need for simplifying pharmacy data and finding actionable insights has never been greater.  Health systems need to quickly identify ways to reduce costs and improve revenue. 

Given the volume of data, our summary dashboards are essential to quickly identifying opportunities and then allow a user-determined path to more detailed data.  Integrating data from many sources allows health systems to identify high cost diagnoses, compare prescribers and identify drugs with sub-optimal reimbursement.  

While this approach produced the best user experience, it presented technical challenges to implement. We will share our lessons learned and challenges for implementing this approach such as using the JavaScript API navigating between levels of detailed data, maximizing performance and development efficiency.

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.

Are you an intrepid Tableau explorer? Do you want to go further than standard Tableau mapping can take you? Push the boundaries of Tableau’s mapping capabilities with us as we dive into the intricacies of how Tableau handles geographic data, the limitations thereof, and how to manipulate data to overcome said limitations to create map masterpieces. We’ll put the rubber to the road with spatial joins, MapBox, path, distance and radial mapping, and more. Join us and witness the madness!

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.

With annual US Healthcare expenditures surpassing $3 trillion, the industry is challenged with providing high-quality care at the lowest possible price. The Memorial Hermann Healthcare System is facing this challenge head-on. Through eliminating waste and increasing quality, we are changing the way care is provided. Come see how Memorial Hermann is using Tableau with Cerner to improve quality and safety of care, enhance the patient experience, while reducing costs.

Semantics is an area of linguistics and natural language processing to help make sense and meaning of the world around us. In visual analytics, using principles of semantics can help improve the meaning and overall cognition of a visualization to the user. In this talk, we will discuss how we are thinking of adding semantics to help enrich various aspects of the visual analytics workflow. By incorporating and inferring general concepts to empowering users to add domain-specific knowledge, semantic governance can bring more meaning to the analytical experience.

Join us for the healthcare Tableau user group at TC18. This is an opportunity for you to connect with other healthcare users in the Tableau community. During this meeting, you'll have the chance to share best practices, connect with others, and learn new approaches to Tableau. We hope to see you there!

What is your name? What is your quest? What is the airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow? If you can only answer two of the three questions above, you’ve come to the right place. This introductory course on calculations will guide you through correctly aggregating data, constructing true-false analyses, writing if-then statements, and performing string and date calculations. Most importantly, we’ll be using what we learn to answer one of the most legendary questions of all time.

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.

Learn how and why to aggregate and pivot your data in Tableau Prep, some common pitfalls, and some useful functionality that make your life even easier.

Midwest Health Collaborative (MHC) was charged with bringing financial and clinical data to member hospital systems’ to drive population health initiatives. However, complicated charts and clunky reports hindered user adoption.

MHC addressed these challenges thru a user-drive design that enabled a deep understanding of users and their initiatives, to deliver solutions in response to their specific needs.

This is driving superior decision making and measurable value. The Population Health Engine enables executives to instantly identify a strategy to maximize revenue across contracts, contract managers to set tactical plans in line with that strategy, and care coordinators to execute those plans by generating lists of specific patients with quality care gaps for outreach. This is reducing waste and driving rapid responses to shifts in population risks, enabling fast detection of changes in spending and quickly identifying areas of concern for remediation.

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.

Join us for the Tableau administrators user group at TC18. This is an opportunity for you to connect with other Tableau administrators in the Tableau community. During this meeting, you'll have the chance to share best practices, connect with others, and learn new approaches to Tableau. We hope to see you there!

Tableau Server on Linux continues to evolve and improve, based on feedback from customers like you! This session will quickly cover how Tableau Server on Linux differs from Windows, and then explain improvements we have made to the Linux experience since the initial 10.5 release. You will learn how we install Tableau Server, how we improved and simplified our security architecture (no more sudoers!), and more. We'll also highlight issues to be aware of in cloud deployments. This session will cater to attendees with experience in either Linux and/or Tableau Server administration.

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 the embedded analytics Tableau user group at TC18. This is an opportunity for you to connect with others exploring emended analytics in the Tableau community. During this meeting, we’ll have a panel discussion with a group of companies developing embedded analytics. We’ll cover varying approaches, best practices, and then have an open discussion time. We hope to see you there!Join us for the embedded analytics Tableau user group at TC18. This is an opportunity for you to connect with others exploring emended analytics in the Tableau community. During this meeting, you'll have the chance to share best practices, connect with others, and learn new approaches to Tableau. We hope to see you there!

In this session, attendees will see examples and real scenarios that will illustrate how developers can leverage Tableau’s open-source server monitoring utilities and combine them with intelligent, real-time analytics to monitor Tableau environments at scale. Attendees will get a firsthand preview of an entire analytics suite which showcases Tableau design and reporting best practices all while capturing information about Tableau usage, performance, concurrency and so much more. In addition to that, this session will show how this information can be turned into developer-facing solutions, providing otherwise unknown details on what’s happening in Tableau sites and projects and allowing them to transition and evolve with their users at speed.

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.

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.

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! 

This session will help you learn how to use customize API and PG scripts to manage server administration such as automate content administration, how to have two HOT HOT clusters which can help achieve 0% down-time, different ways to speed-up content migration between different clusters, on-demand cache management based on freshness of the data and much more.

Join the Maps Dev team and your fellow mapping enthusiasts for an hour dedicated to you. This session will have opportunities to network, participate in group discussion, and provide feedback to the Map Dev team on the problems you are solving and want to solve with Tableau mapping capabilities. If you work in State and Local Government, Transportation and Logistics, Oil and Gas, Retail, Natural Resource Management, Insurance, Consumer Services or in any industry or position where your location drives your business, please join us.

In this no-holds-barred, rapid-fire-demo-style session you will laugh, you will cry, and most of all you will be inspired by what is possible with the extensions API.

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.

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?