Sessions

Learn best practices around how to achieve high availability with Tableau Server. We’ll cover advanced tips and tricks that ensure you get the most out of your Tableau Server licenses and some platform-specific technologies you can utilize when deploying to virtualized hardware or the cloud.

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.

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.

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.

Join this session to explore the scientific underpinnings of what enables people to understand data quickly and effectively (and how Tableau helps them get there). Gain the tips and tricks necessary for authoring content that your viewers will appreciate.

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

Join this session to learn how to deploy Tableau Mobile at an enterprise scale. We’ll talk about different authentication types supported in mobile, challenges in securing data and how to overcome these issues by using Mobile Device Management (MDM) services to manage the mobile app and the mobile device. We’ll also discuss new features in the mobile app.

Learn from the personal experience of a people insights and analytics manager to discover how she enables easy user access to human capital metrics at AbbVie. The solutions implemented have led their team to a paradigm shift for business users—from depending on spreadsheets and analysts to provide data, to self-service through Tableau Server.

In this session:
• Learn about the prior state of HR analytics: security challenges, data access, manual calculations, and more.
• Learn the steps AbbVie’s people insights team took to: allow dashboard/enterprise access through Tableau Server, create a better visual experience to understand the metrics, allow drill down, tie up security challenges and create a single source of truth for their entire user base.
• You’ll see AbbVie’s people insights dashboard and a preview of the process that got it built and in front of the right users.

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.

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.

Get ready for another round of Hackathon presented by Netflix! This year aims to be bigger, better and heavy on the APIs. Conjure your creative juices and come hack away. We’ll keep your energy levels amped with snacks, drinks, and our staff of geeky cheerleaders. And don’t worry—if you find yourself stumped, our pro engineers are on hand for assistance. Doors open on Monday, October 22 at 8:00 AM. Participants leave with a sweet tee, and top placers nab all kinds of prizes.

*Award ceremony begins at 3:30 PM for attendees only

Do you have dashboards that take a painfully long time to load? Have you been told that Tableau can't handle large data sets or that you need to pre-aggregate your data in order for it to load quickly? At IBM Watson Health we deal with large data sets that can exceed 100 million rows and have learned some best practices and "tricks" to help dashboards load and perform without the need of pre-aggregating data (and losing key functionality). In this session we will share our real-world lessons learned in tuning Tableau workbook for optimal performance.

The State of Missouri’s Department of Social Services, Family Support Division (DSS FSD) provides Missouri citizens can apply to access to benefits such as: food stamps, child care, temporary assistance, and adult and family medicaid insurance. To meet or exceed application processing timeliness, the risk analysis unit developed real-time operation business intelligence dashboards for decision makers and front-line staff. This session will share our success in providing operational reports with Tableau and show examples of dashboards currently used by the State of Missouri DSS FSD. Attendees of this session will learn about: - Getting buy-in from decision makers - How simple reports can result in big impacts - Managing data overload

Makeover Monday offers inspiration and a giant dose of perspective for those who communicate data. Originally a small project in the data visualization community, #MakeoverMonday features a weekly chart or graph and a dataset that community members reimagine in order to make it more effective. The results have been astounding; hundreds of people have contributed thousands of makeovers, perfectly illustrating the highly variable nature of data visualization. Join us for a live session to get inspired, learn from one another and viz with fellow data lovers live at TC. #MakeoverMonday

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

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.

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.

The healthcare industry is under pressure to reduce costs, while keeping the customer front and center. Our presentation will walk through: - Changes implemented to achieve greater affordability by increasing our fee for value programs - How our Tableau reporting solution enables physician groups to drill into actionable trends, such as steering patients to higher quality specialists, reducing unnecessary care, reducing opioid prescriptions, and targeted quality of care for preventive and chronic diseases. - Our redesigned reporting solution that allows physicians/practice managers to understand patient trends, leveraging a Tableau Server installation, exposed beyond our firewall to external physician group partners. Its secure, group-specific dynamic reporting is accessible via a multi-use Cigna web portal.

This session will build upon the 101 and 201 sessions, and go deeper into new discoveries and ways that the Tableau HR and recruiting team are using Tableau products.

Ever wonder about the prospect of employment after graduation? The British Columbia Institute of Technology (BCIT) integrates Tableau in forecasting labor market statistics for education programs. The main goal is to assist the decision-making of internal administrative concerns and the students’ occupation of choice. Discover how we use Tableau to: - Compare Provincial Education Data Warehouse to economic time series data - Use forecasting tools and key economic indicators to predict job vacancies - Analyze the data to internally make decisions to create programs - Promote our programs to potential students with Tableau by giving them access to job-to-graduate ratios, salary data, and occupation growth rates

Before the analysis of data even starts, reports show that 80% of your time is spent gathering, cleaning and preparing data. Why? Because data comes in a variety of files and sources, sizes, structures, and levels of quality. Wouldn’t you rather flip that statistic and spend your time performing the analysis and building great visual analytics and dashboards? If so, let us show you how we “mind the gap” and demonstrate how anyone can use Tableau Prep to reshape and refine data into usable data sets, allowing for analysis. During the session, we will reference common challenges our customers have when it comes to using data.

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.

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

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

By using Tableau you’re already gaining indispensable insight and transformative value with your data. Tableau’s capabilities provide limitless opportunity as the end user can discover, explore and share data asking and answering questions at the flow of their own thought. But, whether you’re an administrator, key stakeholder or end user, how well you leverage Tableau can significantly impact your success and long-term business adoption. In this session, we’ll explore how to fully engage with Tableau, provide you with a road map to data-driven success, use cases and introduce you to tools to ensure lasting value with your Tableau investment. 

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 sat down to make a dashboard and weren’t sure where to start? Designing the perfect dashboard for your audience is easy if you have the right information. Professional Services Consultant Tara Morton blends techniques for establishing rapport by helping people clarify and address their business questions. In this session, explore how to come out of that pivotal meeting with everything you need to make your executives cry tears of joy.

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

The insurance market is a competitive space. The General, an insurance company focused on providing affordable high-quality auto insurance, turned to analytics and data science for their edge. By using Alteryx + Tableau together, they overhauled their standard reporting process, creating such a seamless experience that many end-users can’t tell where Alteryx ends and Tableau begins. The General revolutionized their standard annual reporting process and turned it into a state-of-the-art analytics feat that delivers insights on a rolling 12-month basis. Join this session to learn how The General’s cross-functional team collaborated and leveraged the award-winning Alteryx platform to modernize forecasting through analytics and data science, breaking data barriers, delivering more impactful insights, and allowing their team to experience the thrill of getting to the answer faster.

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.

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!

This presentation covers how IMF is addressing big data challenges, building an analytics roadmap and using Tableau to aid research & policy recommendations. Key areas of discussion will include the IMF’s commitment to gender equality both in workplace and for macroeconomic growth globally as well as addressing SDGs strategically.

When expenses get out of control, how do you course-correct? Come listen to Tableau Finance walk through how data analytics were employed efficiently and effectively to remediate travel expense overages. As this monitoring process evolved, actionable business insights were discovered and now serve as a guidepost for strategic planning and decision-making. This session will demonstrate how we use Tableau internally to manage travel and entertainment expenses and plan for future growth.

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.

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.

Allstate Insurance Company has more than 10,000 agency owners benefiting from the use of Tableau to measure success. Pairing Tableau’s Extensions API with natural language generation (NLG) from Automated Insights, Allstate provides narrative reports tailored to a viewer’s role, directly in their dashboard. With this, sales leaders are able to deliver clear, consistent, on-demand insights, which better serve their agents and customers. Join us as we provide a closer look at how Allstate empowers leaders and increases sales. This session will highlight how Allstate: •Communicates performance data across territories with Tableau and NLG •Engages leaders with personalized reports delivered via dashboard, email, and audio formats – all powered by Extensions API •Delivers real-time analysis to specific organizational roles, further fostering an enterprise-wide, analytics-driven culture

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.

We would like to showcase how Trinet uses the power of Tableau SDK and REST API's to provide the flexibility for creating Tableau data sources and publishing them to the server. Additionally, we will provide the power for business users to create their own data connections in Tableau without the obligation to understand the underlying, complex data structures and joins. Trinet has created a reporting tool for both internal and external customers that provides the self-serve functionality for building reports from pre-defined subject areas. With that, comes the need for better visualizations for these reports. Learn to utilize the queries and data generated by this tool, automate the creation of the data connections in Tableau, and publish them for users to build their own visualizations.

Familiar with calculated fields, but ready to master a new level of analysis? This intro track on LOD (Level of Detail) expressions is ideal for your eager mind. Learn how to articulate the meaning of "Level of Detail," master best practices, incorporate LOD expressions into your daily workflow, and demonstrate how they differ from other calculations.

The world of data is expanding rapidly, and change is coming. Analysts and businesses around the world are realizing our roles and use of data are evolving, and we must evolve with it. This presentation addresses recent headlines on data and the impact these concerns can have on the modern business model. Learn skills to identify what's happening within your own internal systems and be empowered to address them individually. Learn how to be more pro-active in your data strategy, how to identify potential risks and the effects that they can have if not addressed. Ideal for BI administrators, execs, and analysts looking to understand the role of data ethics.

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

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.

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.

Periodic “hackathons” are one of the tools we use to drive innovation at Tableau. A hackathon is a few days that are set aside for members of the engineering team to go off and try to build a new feature that interests and excites them. Some hackathon ideas have come from customer feedback and forum discussion, others are just wacky. Some hackathon projects have later developed into Tableau features. Come for an inside view of some of the best hacks of 2018! (Please note: All hacks are speculative or wacky. They might never become part of a Tableau release. We make no promises that any hack that you see will become part of the product, but hey, come have fun anyway!)

How do you feel about more end-user interactivity in your dashboards? If the answer’s “pretty good,” this session is your jam. Parameters enable you to create user inputs that can adjust measures, swap dimensions, hide worksheets, build conditional logic, and much more. Join us as we explore parameters—from the ground up. (We’ll even toss in a few sophisticated parameter use cases.) Expect to leave knowing simple uses of parameters (such as moving averages, what-if analysis, adjusting KPIs, and top N filters), and more complex uses like swapping fields within a chart and swapping charts within a dashboard.

Tableau Prep is like an iceberg—90% of its operation is below the water where you can't see it. How does Tableau Prep do what it does? Does data actually "flow through" nodes? Where are the performance bottlenecks? How will it scale? Find out here.

We, the Data Management Team at Barnes-Jewish Hospital, are confident that we have achieved what we set out to do: acquired the right technologies, developed the appropriate skills and hired the right people to take us on that journey. Today, we can take on any project, any size of data, and can transform them into valuable information to support daily operations as well as business decisions at all levels in the healthcare setting. In this presentation, we will focus on our journey’s evolution from the early challenges to the triumphant outcomes. We will also highlight several key transformational technical projects which help us complete our mission every day. Finally, we will demonstrate how choosing and integrating the right technologies, Tableau and the Vertica Analytics Platform, played a key factor in our success.

In this talk, we’ll explore how we ensure that a customer's Tableau Server installations are secure. We’ll talk about our security model, how we encrypt secrets, how we secure communications and finally how to lock down your Tableau Server host machines to enhance security.

Ready for next level dashboard design? Join Tom Christian and Jenny Stancheva, “Viz of the Week” winning authors, as they share their views on how to create an engaging and impactful dashboard—from the ground up. You're bound to come away with valuable tips and tricks to bring into your own vizzes.

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

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.