Sessions

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.

Where should we send our admissions representatives to recruit future students? Which course combinations lead to success (or failure)? Where should we schedule alumni events to reach the most people? The answers to all of these questions lies with data. At Winston-Salem State University, Tableau has helped us move beyond the typical admissions funnels and enrollment line graphs to create dashboards for everyone across campus. In this session, we will share our dashboards for longitudinal survey data, major migration, yield rates, co-course mapping, course evaluation reports, assessment games, and more. Join us to learn how we created these dashboards, the mistakes we made along the way (so you can avoid them), and to get ideas for how to make dashboards at your own institution.

The aviation industry is one of the world’s most complex network experiences. The coordination of assets and people - combined with a variety of external factors - can make it a unique challenge. The industry also puts you on a chair in the sky and delivers you home safely. Jordan Hefferan is the Director of Digital Services at GE Aviation, accelerating change and digital transformation throughout the ecosystem. His Tableau talk will focus on the transformation of the industry, the future technology landscape, and the connected aircraft.

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.

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.

After the acquisition of the Hyper database technology, we shipped Tableau 10.5 with our brand-new Hyper data engine. This deep-dive talk sheds a light on Hyper's design philosophy and highlights the context in which the Hyper project was started. We use real-world analogies to illustrate how Hyper's core technology works and how it differentiates itself from other data engines and database systems. This session is not directly applicable to your daily work with Tableau, but lifts the curtain on one of our core technologies and provides food for thought on how the Hyper technology enables current and future Tableau customer scenarios.

In this session we will demystify sets, one of Tableau’s most powerful analytics features. Whether you haven’t used sets, or deeply know their ins and outs, this session is for. If you enjoy sunsets, dislike being upset, and possess an analytical mindset… well, you will love sets.

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.

Today’s data teams are struggling with ever-increasing data volume from thousands of IOT and mobile devices all in real time. Your business can no longer wait days or weeks for the right data. Teams need to analyze and iterate within hours to stay competitive. But how do you capture data from so many devices in real time? How do you manage the infrastructure and rectify data errors? What about new data sources in the future? We’ll dive in on how to leverage the Alooma data platform to manage all your real-time data and perform advanced transformations and enrichments using real code, all on the fly.

Tableau's global corporate treasury team is the central bank of the company and is responsible for managing all aspects of banking services, cash and liquidity management, payment operations, foreign exchange risk, investments, ecommerce and corporate credit cards. This session will demonstrate how we use Tableau to manage a growing and complex global treasury.

TC18 welcomes Ryan Sleeper, Tableau Zen Master, Tableau Iron Viz Champion, and Tableau Public Visualization of the Year author. Ryan is here to share why he strives to be a “master of checkers” by focusing on the fundamentals of data visualization. He will share many tips from this new book: "Practical Tableau." During this session, you’ll learn how to make beautiful bar charts, lovely line graphs, leverage psychological schemas to improve your data visualization, and more!

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.

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.

Why sit alone during lunch when you could chow down with fellow data pride peeps? Come out and join members of Tableau’s LGBTQ+ community at an open and inclusive table. Connect with those like you who are interested in diversity and inclusion issues and meet other proud data rock stars. Look for the rainbow–you can’t miss it.

Running Tableau Server on AWS? Don't miss these tips on how to do it the DevOps™ way! Turn your automation and monitoring up to 11 with this session. We will look at practical examples of how to: - send SMS alerts when Tableau has a problem - architect Tableau Server VMs in the safest way (using jump hosts) - automate deployments of entire environments with cloudformation (including the tableau server install) - run scheduled commands on the server automatically with SSM commands to implement a robust DR strategy and free your inner server-less hipster (and make your admin life easier) with lambda functions

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.

More and more HR departments are hiring data scientists and using analytics to improve their recruiting, hiring, and retainment practices. Learn from others about what is making an impact on their business. This gathering will provide a casual environment with audience-led discussions. Come with your questions ready.

The ability to enrich Tableau’s powerful visualizations with flexible, secure content has enabled Archetype Consulting customers to realize their own data exploration, insight generation, and constituent service-level goals. In this presentation you'll see Python integration via TabPy server, which can be used to invoke Python libraries for numerical computation, advanced analyses, and machine learning (e.g. Numpy, SciPy, Pandas, and Scikit-learn). Our Python scripts are stored as TabPy server endpoints for ease of use inside Tableau, as well as change management and migration between environments. We'll also share an approach to provide value-added content alongside Tableau Server, including high interest dashboard marks that drill down to secure content generated in real-time. This end-to-end framework for rich content delivery applies both to public datasets and enterprise environments.

State planners say that 2,000 square miles of Louisiana may be lost in the next 50 years due to sinking land and rising sea levels. Maps team members Jim Walseth and Ashwin Kumar will demonstrate how to use recently added and advanced map features in Tableau to reveal the threats in detail. Note: This session was Inspired by the New York Times/Times-Picayune collaboration "The Drowning Coast".

Join this session to learn and understand how to use the REST API with the Tableau Server Client, and to explore ways to better automate your workflow.

Implementing Kerberos within an organization can be tough. This presentation will be a technical overview of the Kerberos protocol, including constrained delegation using an advanced internally developed database, BagelDB. This talk is complimentary (but distinct) from “OAuth on the wire.” Complementing the talk, “Kerberos on the wire”, expect to learn how OAuth is used at Tableau for data sources access. This will be a technical talk which will cover the HTTP exchange and concepts behind OAuth, as well as the implementation for key connectors.

Users make mistakes. It’s a fact of life. In defense of their own sanity and the stability of their service, admins often resort to draconian rules that end up heavily restricting the freedom of their users—removing much of the value of Tableau in the first place!

Join this session to learn a new way to keep your server deployment healthy and give your users the guided freedom they need to thrive with Tableau. We’ll go over two resources used internally at Tableau to automate the enforcement of best practices, ensure data quality, and help users who need just a little advice to get past an issue.

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.

Learn how a division of Home Depot is increasing customer experience and saving money by holding our vendors accountable using interactive Tableau dashboards and machine learning. Getting orders right the first time and produced/shipped on time is paramount to our customers. Exposing production times and other data to our vendors through secure, well designed Tableau dashboards, our teams are helping them achieve these goals. Our machine learning models help detect problem orders before they occur, alerting our teams before they get to the vendor, helping save production costs and improving customer satisfaction.

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!

Over the past number of years, our "Designing Efficient Workbooks" whitepaper has been a popular guide to improving performance. This session, presented by a student of the author, will cover the main causes of slow workbooks and offer practical suggestions on how to improve them. Expect to address topics such as defining efficiency (and why you should care), and diagnosing the cause of slow workbooks (via workbook design, the query, the data source, or environmental factors).

Many of us have been, or are in, the position of implementing or expanding an Analytics program. In many of those cases, we face resistance. This can be especially fierce when doing a modern self-service rollout vs. a legacy centralized implementation. Roadblocks can take the form of security, costs, benefits, features, and plain old obstructionists. Hear from Tableau’s Director of Enterprise Analytics as he shares his experiences, both inside and outside of Tableau, of being in that same position. You’ll learn how to prepare for those potential obstacles, gather the right data, and build support through both cultural and technological changes. Put into practice, you can get your approvals and make your next deployment a smashing success!

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.

Learn how to connect to and integrate location driven datasets within Tableau to solve your business challenges.

Experience first-hand how easy it is to incorporate Pitney Bowes data into your analytics to:

• Layer industry-specific datasets on top of your organization's data for advanced insight
• Introduce new context to address complex business challenges
• Resolve data currency and consistency issues with ease
• Reveal hidden relationships between people, places and things
• Enhance native Tableau mapping and geospatial capabilities with additional location detail

Attend this workshop to elevate your analytics and address your company's needs.

It's hard to analyze data that you don't know exists. How do you know what's out there? Once you find it, can you trust it? What if it contains sensitive information? How can you be sure you have what you need so you can move on to deeper analysis in Tableau? Come learn about the value a Data Catalog can provide as you get hands-on with the Unifi Data Platform. 1) Discover data you didn't know existed using NLP to search through data from across your organization; 2) Build the catalog by crawling through data everywhere - File shares, databases, Tableau Server (Oh My!); 3) Identify sensitive data with Unifi's auto-detection of PII and customizable data masking; 4) Collaborate to create your own community of new data sets, metadata, and user-defined data types; 5) Output your trusted data to Tableau-ready formats (.twbx, .tde) for further analysis in Tableau Desktop

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.

Talent Analytics within ServiceNow was established in 2017, and the team was tasked with quickly revamping older, underused Tableau Dashboards. We were asked to create a suite of dashboards for various audiences around Headcount Footprints, Org Health, Attrition, Promotions, and Diversity - all in an attempt to drive data awareness and acumen across the HR organization. Along the way, we’ve learned how to manage IT relationships, stakeholder expectations, and how to get creative with Tableau. We’re excited to share our journey with you, present sample dashboards, and talk about where we want to head next.

Gartner defines a citizen data scientist as, “a person who creates or generates models that use advanced diagnostic analytics or predictive and prescriptive capabilities, but whose primary job function is outside the field of statistics and analytics.” Citizen data scientists can bridge the gap between mainstream self-service analytics by business users and the advanced analytics techniques of data scientists. They perform sophisticated analysis that would previously have required more expertise, enabling them to deliver advanced analytics without having the skills that characterize data scientists. This presentation is about how Tableau, Maestro and other third-party applications integrating with Tableau can support this emerging group of advanced data analysts which Gartner predicts will surpass data scientists in the amount of advanced analysis produced.

In this presentation we'll go through the steps required to build an advanced Web Data Connector. To support the presentation, a repository has been created with well detailed and profusely documented code so that you can understand what it takes to create a maintainable, reliable and production quality WDC. The code has a direct link to the official documentation so you can make this connection and learn.

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.

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.

Whether you are new to survey data or have been working with it for years, there’s been amazing strides in how you can use Tableau to visualize survey data. In this session, you’ll explore how Tableau Prep helps people working with survey data. Not only will Prep allow you to get your data “just so”, but it will also deal with lots of thorny, real-world situations. Lacking confidence on how to show confidence? We’ll explore some great way to show margin of error. Got Likert scale data? We’ll look at some new, provocative, and remarkably useful ways visualize it. Also learn how to cut a question by any other question, and how to tackle a massive survey comparing lots of different institutions, products, or brands, resulting in thousands of columns.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

Want to see how Tableau can help your Sales and Marketing departments with Account-Based Marketing (ABM)? We know you do! Join your fellow Tableau enthusiasts along with experts from LinkedIn to share best practices and learn new tricks that can help drive your organization’s bottom line. In this Meetup we will have conversations on different aspects of ABM including measuring success, getting alignment through data, processes and planning, tools and technology, as well as ABM 101 for newbies.

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

Kaiser Permanente generates vast data assets across clinical care, healthcare delivery operations, insurance, and more. This session covers two journeys with self-service visual analytics within KP: medical imaging and kidney disease care. Both teams use Tableau Server to empower hundreds of clinical and operational users across Southern California to quickly answer ad hoc questions, regularly monitor performance, and proactively manage panels of high-risk patients. We will demonstrate both traditional BI and advanced analytics solutions, ranging from descriptive reporting to predictive modeling.

Attend this session to learn about:

• Transitioning from manual spreadsheet-based reporting to self-service dashboards and server subscriptions
• The application of iterative design methodology and input from end-users to maximize adoption
• Examples of in-production dashboards used by KP providers, including clinical and operational impacts of these tools

If you know you have to deal with dashboard performance, but don't even know where to start, then this session is for you. We will provide the tried-and-tested method of how to deal with performance issues. What must you do before you talk to the DBA? What are things you can deal with on your own? What are the most common mistakes that lead to performance issues in vizzes? We will take an extremely slow dashboard and peel through the layers as we make it more efficient together.

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.

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.

In one of the top-rated sessions for TC17 and TC16, Tableau Zen Masters Andy Kriebel and Jeffrey Shaffer raced the clock and counted Tableau tips. Andy and Jeff are stepping it up for TC18 and will be attempting 50 charts in 50 minutes. Don't miss this fast-paced and fun session.

Data catalogs help enable all data workers within an organization to discover and make use of data—regardless of where it’s stored. Come learn and share with others in a special networking opportunity on curating and managing your data strategy!