Sessions

Do you have spatial data? Do you think maps are awesome? We do and we want to help you answer your spatial questions more effectively in Tableau. This presentation is framed around a set of common spatial questions (e.g. where is it, how far is it, how it is distributed, what is nearby, what is here, how does it compare to {location}) with demonstrations of our favorite practices for creative use of mapping and non-mapping viz features in Tableau. Join us to take your spatial analytics to the next level!

In over your head with financial data? Join this session for finance by Tableau Finance and learn how we use our product to crunch the numbers. Expect to learn how to combine actuals from your general ledger with forecasts and budgets within Tableau (when they’re likely originating from different places and stored at different levels of detail), and how to create depreciation/amortization schedules when Tableau doesn’t have a built-in “dates” data source. Along the way, you will get tips on how to Flatten Account/Department Hierarchies and build an Income Statement. If there’s time, we’ll address topics such as Balance Sheet and Dash of Dashboards.

Official data source provided by IBM. Calling all champions—this is a showdown you don’t want to miss. Starring three contestants chosen as feeder competition winners, Iron Viz Championship unites them in one final match. Tune in to see each pitted against each other. Wielding matching datasets and Tableau Desktop, these finalists will race to make the finest visualization in the room. The ultimate winner walks with $2,000 (and eternal glory, of course). Doors open at 4:15 PM.

For those tasked with teaching your coworkers Tableau, how do you keep people engaged? How do you generate enough interest to overcome inertia with Tableau and get coworkers to try it out? How do you take someone from connecting to data to creating full blown, interactive dashboards? How do you maintain engagement over time? In this session, you will learn the five key strategies utilized by the FP&A department at Southwest Airlines to increase Tableau adoption, expand analytical capabilities, and make training fun for all skill levels. Southwest has tackled these challenges in the past two years, and is eager to see what the future holds with Tableau. We are eager to share our flight plan with you to help you reach your data destination ahead of schedule.

US Foods embarked on a journey to rationalize its BI landscape for consistency of insights for the executive team, and to create a common language for business measurement. Having tried a bottom-up approach, we shifted gears and set about deploying a top-down master dashboard in Tableau. This dashboard has become a nexus of information for the organization, and shows leading indicators of business performance. This ecosystem now serves the executive-level intelligence needs of this $20B+ revenue organization. In building it, the business moved the needle on how data is consumed from tabular data to interactive visualizations, starting a new journey that will allow more people to have the information they need to make the right decision at the right time.

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.

Back by popular demand—a top TC breakout session... Are you in a love-hate relationship with Excel? Frustrated and feeling like you're not moving forward? Bring back the romance. Let Excel do what Excel is good at. Move the analytics tasks you depend on and supercharge them in Tableau. This session will cover not only how to duplicate and improve Excel functionality in Tableau, but how to move beyond the constraints of rows and columns. Join us and repair your relationship with Excel. There's a happy world of dynamic, interactive analytics waiting for you.

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.

We're surrounded by statistics. Many sources use statistics in their message to add authority, conflate and confuse its audience. With updated content using examples from current media, this session aims to highlight common misuses of data, visualization and statistics and arm you against bias and improper conclusions, and inform you with such techniques should you wish to succumb to the dark side…

In this session, Netflix will share how Tableau is a core component of making data accessible to as many people as possible at the company. A large percentage of the company uses Tableau on a daily basis to discover insights and be more data informed. With this, our self-serve user base is rapidly growing.

In this session, we’ll share how we are using Tableau “out of the box” and also describe how it fits into our overall data environment. In addition, we’ll describe how we expect to use the Data Catalog and Object Model, our explorations of large-scale data stores, and challenges we are working on including governance and data lineage.

Data and analytics are core to GoDaddy’s ability to meet the needs of its diverse global customer base of more than 17 million. Tableau Dashboards are used to analyze data for everything from improving products to optimizing sales and marketing campaigns. The sheer volume of data available, coupled with the complexity of GoDaddy's cloud + on-premise data architecture, and the diversity of GoDaddy employees leveraging data, makes it challenging to ensure that analysis is accurate and well governed.

Sharon Graves, BI tools evangelist and a member of the enterprise data team at GoDaddy, will show how GoDaddy leverages the Alation Data Catalog in conjunction with Tableau to guide analysis while fostering a self-service environment where everyone is encouraged to leverage data to make decisions.

Learn how data catalogs tame data complexity and ensure accurate analysis, including:

• Activating data governance rules through new capabilities like TrustCheck and endorsements which surfaces compliance recommendations directly in the workflow of Tableau users and power analysts
• Tagging & tracking sensitive PII data with catalog sets surfaced through a user-friendly search interface that points users to the most accurate & useful datasets
• Best practices for leveraging machine learning to create and maintain a business glossary, ensuring consistent metric definitions across data sources

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

You converted to named user, now what? In this session, we’ll go through strategies for deploying the conversion, and how to help users set up and manage their new named user model.

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.

Level of detail expressions (LOD) in Tableau introduce an abundance of capabilities for curious data geeks who wish to push the boundaries of Tableau. This session will demonstrate "LODs of fun" techniques, including enabling single member drill down, search across a hierarchy, one-click drill down on maps, market basket analysis, and other filter scenarios.

Have you heard about the Extensions API, but want to see it in action? Do you want your dashboard to stand out amongst a crowd? Need to directly connect your insights to action, in the same view? This session will show you how to do exactly that. Tableau Zen Masters Chris DeMartini and Tamas Foldi will provide an action-packed demonstration of several Tableau extensions; enabling advanced visualization techniques and capabilities like Write Back. Each extension will be demonstrated live, with a quick overview of the build process. Attendees will gain a better understanding of how to leverage the Extensions API within their own environments. Take this opportunity to be the one who brings new capabilities to back to your team.

Windstream’s Campaign Influence project brings together data from Marketo, SalesForce, and billing systems to provide a single source of truth across sales and marketing. Learn how the marketing strategy team developed a common language and measurable goals to understand trends and create an environment for agile business deployment decisions. Moving from manual spreadsheet reporting to automated, systematic updates wasn’t easy, but efficient design and strategic partnerships from inception to deployment resulted in a sustainable, effective, and time-saving tool. This session will cover the importance of creating consistency across departments with tips to get there, how to design for a range of users from executives to individual contributors, and clear concepts to capture marketing influence.

Have you heard of the Tableau Community but aren't sure how you (and your organization) can get involved, or even why you should? In that case, this session is for you! In this talk, Lorna and Sarah will utilize all 26 letters of the alphabet to give you an overview of the Tableau Community and provide details of how you and your colleagues can become involved. We will cover everything from blogs to community projects, and from learning resources to user groups. You will leave the session energized with plenty of resources to get you and your colleagues more engaged in the community, and to leave you equipped to build an internal community at your workplace.

Are you struggling to bring about change in your organization? Is your team or company stuck in entrenched modes of behavior despite your awesome data visualizations? What now!? Even as “a data company,” Tableau itself has wrestled with the very human difficulty of doing what we want to do. In this session, a member of our development practices team will discuss change management and behavioral engineering techniques that will help equip you to drive powerful and humane change in your organization.

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!

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.

How can you use Tableau to make it easier for people to take action on the KPIs and data they're exposed to? This session will cover how to integrate applications like Salesforce into Tableau to make data actionable, and your users more efficient. The goal is to close that last mile of analytics where your users can use Tableau to actually impact the goals they're measured against.

This session will demonstrate the intersection between science, data, and art, with a focus on our successes transforming raw disparate data into well-informed action enabling power with truth. Enrollment management, institutional analytics and financial planning offices at UB converge to progress the visibility of our strategic UB 2020 plan and enhance the academic mission. Collaboratively and methodically, institutional leadership expanded access to actionable intelligence and new insights to a wider campus audience using Tableau Server. As a result, we were able to positively influence campus leadership on future investment initiatives, increase access to intelligence throughout all layers of the university, and create predictive analytics tools to demonstrate the transformative power of data for tomorrow, not just today.

The United States Air Force is currently undergoing an infrastructure modernization to effectively deliver on core mission capabilities, while maintaining low life-cycle-costs. Harnessing their data with Tableau, the US Air Force Installation and Mission Support Center (AFIMSC) uses analytics to manage data and data-driven decisions across the enterprise. Through governance, visualization, and a growing community of practice, visual analytics allows the AFIMSC to further their mission of understanding the cost of mission infrastructure. Since rolling out their pilot program in early 2017, Tableau Server and Desktop have saved the Civil Engineer of the Air Force $500M directly, allowing the infrastructure program to have the highest return on investment, while keeping the impact of various missions top of mind.

See how to use Tableau to show how AI and ML technology is closing the unstructured-to-actionable data gap with Tableau and ALI Data Insights from ThoughtTrace. During the session, we will have a live demonstration of how critical data can be surfaced in contracts and legal documents in just minutes, allowing human intelligence to focus on critical elements for analysis, and ultimately resulting in a significant reduction in risk and better insights into obligations. This technology enables companies to integrate newfound data with their own internal data and systems to gain additional insights. Capabilities include detailed visualizations that provide holistic insight into a range of use cases, and the Tableau capabilities include mapping functions that provide greater insight based on geographical location. Report templates can be used as a baseline to build custom reports, and SQL data is easily integrated into existing systems.

Come meet Irwin Dolobowsky (Product Manager) and Russell Hay (Development Manager) from the Developer Platform team to discuss (yes discuss!) the past, present, and future of Tableau's Automation APIS - REST APIs, TabCmd, Webhooks, and more!  There will be a (very) short presentation prepared but expect to spend most of the time in conversation and Q&A.  What's missing? What works? What doesn't?  Come tell us directly!

Still sorting your drags from your drops? Still mixing your dimensions with your measures? This session has your newbie name all over it. Come tackle the fundamentals of Tableau, including how to connect to data, answer statistical questions, build maps, and apply some table calculations in a dashboard you can take with you at the end of the session.

“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.

To answer all the questions regarding movie performance from studios, Fandango has developed “Studio Portal” application, which is a collection of insights to be used by various departments within Fandango as well as External Studio. These dashboards give insights of how a movie is performing compared to other movies before and after release. We will walk you through our journey from inception to a finished product and its adoption.
You will learn about:

• Identifying the opportunity to build data products that solve for repetitive adhoc questions.
• Creating interactive and visually appealing dashboards.
• Packaging dashboards into a product that you can monetarize.
• How to inspire your customers to self-serve

In the last two years our Tableau user group at PepsiCo has tremendously grown, effectively engaging teams all over the world to solve their business requirements. We could not have done that without a comprehensive blueprint to share, communicate, and collaborate with all 17,000+ users. In this session, we will discuss how PepsiCo planned, implemented, deployed our current community, as well as share our long-term strategy. As a part of that process, we’ll talk about how we encourage best practices for dashboard design and cover a majorly successful use case where we embedded visualizations inside our global corporate portal.

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

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.

Consider this a quick-start program designed for firms that want to provide a more structured educational framework for end-users to learn the critical skills necessary to see and understand their data (with little administrative burden). The program is designed to be customizable by role with plug-and-play modules. Firms will be able to immediately begin capturing valuable data about their end-users’ abilities and begin building a self-service community by connecting users with peers at the same level and with Tableau champions.

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!

Advanced analytics is a journey that involves understanding the past, predicting the future and finding the best course of action to attain goals. Be it via built-in visualizations, forecasting and clustering, or custom machine learning models built in R, Python or Matlab, Tableau can help every step of the way. This session reviews broad types of advanced analytics possible with Tableau with example use cases. We’ll explore what’s possible, when and how to use specific features and contexts that they are applicable to.

Cerner leverages Tableau in many different ways, including embedding it within our big data platform, HealtheIntent. Learn how Cerner supports population health and operational, clinical, and financial analytic initiatives by creating standard content and giving healthcare organizations the ability to use Tableau and create brand new content. By using Tableau, Cerner and our clients can evaluate questions and problems, turning them into potential answers and solutions.

Critics are abuzz about Tableau! The reviews are in and Tableau's a hit. In this session you'll get hands-on exposure to what's new, including Tableau Prep, enhanced visual analytics features and more. By the end of this training, you'll be an award-winner, ready to share skills with your cast back home. If you were able to attend last year's session, rest assured—we’ll be bringing you fresh content to get your hands on!

Tableau users run queries all the time, but what do they look like? How does one see and understand the theory and practice of Tableau’s federated query ecosystem? In this session, we will briefly review how Tableau forms query expressions based on user actions, how to view queries using the Tableau Log Viewer, and then examine queries from Tableau Desktop, Tableau Prep, and Hyper. Query visualizations will be rendered using Query Graphs, Tableau’s open source project for query visualization.

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

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.

Looking to implement Tableau's analytics platform in your enterprise? Or are you currently managing Tableau Server on-premises and interested in making the leap to the cloud? This session will give an overview of the differences between Tableau Server and Tableau Online, and the factors to consider for making an informative decision. Discover all the features, from our fully managed SaaS service that empowers you to deploy Tableau at scale. Find out how to keep data fresh even if your data sources are still on-prem with Tableau Bridge. Learn how to provide a scalable analytics platform that is accessible yet secure from a member of Tableau’s own enterprise analytics team.

A successful Tableau deployment involves more than creating pretty dashboards. Strong engagement at the executive level of your organization is critical and challenging the way that people think about data will be required. In this session you will learn about State Street’s journey from producing “reports” to leading highly-valued, quantitative and strategic analysis using Tableau. The speakers will outline their strategy for driving strong support from senior management and they will provide insight into how they have used Tableau to change behaviors and deliver measurable business value in an organization with over $33 trillion in assets under custody and administration.

What does my sample tell me about the population? Based on past values, what can I expect future values to be? If these are questions you’d like to answer, then this session is for you! Come and learn how to use Tableau and statistical analysis to answer these basic questions and more. Some familiarity with mathematics or statistics is recommended (variables, functions). Some familiarity with Tableau is required (intermediate calculations and table calculations, analytics pane).

Learn how you can use Python in Tableau! We probably cannot teach you how to code in two hours, but we can show you how to use Python in Tableau to create amazing visualizations that would otherwise not be possible. We will show you how to install TabPy, how you can get Tableau Desktop and Server talking with a Python environment, and most importantly, how you can put Python code directly into your Tableau calculations.

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.

Do you and your organization have diverse, rapidly scaling (billions trending to trillions of rows!) longitudinal, data sets that need to be unified so that your ideas can be tested and for the most pressing, non-routine business questions to be answered almost as soon as you ask them? Are you already utilizing Tableau’s “gold standard” visual analytics, but get bogged down behind the scenes with data integration and prep, that only gets worse the more data scale and sources you have?

At 1010data, we offer a Best-In-Class, self-service, “spreadsheet style”, iterative data analytics cloud solution delivered at scale that fits seamlessly into any pre-existing modern technology ecosystem. Our products and solutions, built on our Trillion Row SpreadsheetTM analytics engine, are easy to use and learn whether you're a data scientist, business analysts, delivering accurate and detailed intelligence for executive decision making, and enabling robust and secure data monetization opportunities across your ecosystem.

We believe as competitive landscapes only get more complex with every day, companies will require an integrated blend of connected, scalable, and self-service technologies and data to win. You are already leveraging Tableau's best-in-class data visualization. Integrating 1010data with your Tableau capabilities brings the best of both worlds of being able to rapidly and easily analyze and visualize all your data at massive scale!

There are endless numbers of opportunities and problems found in every company’s marketing data. Join us for a special networking opportunity to engage with others using Tableau in marketing and learn from them. The meetup will be in a casual and conversational. Specific topics will be chosen by the audience with guidance by Tableau marketers.

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.

The financial sector builds tools to interpret and manage risk in an increasingly complex world. We produce vast amounts of data that require synthesis with disparate public and private data sources. Legacy systems and regulatory pressures have forced the financial industry to produce reports that can be time-consuming and delay decision making. At Bank of America, we've created a suite of portfolio surveillance tools that help the company in our mantra of responsible growth and operational excellence. This session will show how we use Tableau to empower senior executives with interactive, actionable analytics for evaluating potential risks and the magnitude of a portfolio’s susceptibility to those risks.

The road to data bliss and success is a well-worn path thanks to tools like Tableau, but it's also a path filled with common pitfalls that are important to know about and avoid. This session will show you practical examples of what not to do, and how to know when someone else has.