Sessions

As part of our strategic planning, Shawnee State University has undertaken a major initiative to become a data-informed campus. As a part of this effort, there is a recognition of the strategic importance of enrollment management and student affairs data. Through a cross-campus partnership, the Enrollment Management: Matriculation to Graduation Dashboard allows us to drill-down from application through enrollment to analyze academic year cohorts, specific student group cohorts, student progress, and student-generated revenue. Shawnee State will illustrate the planning process, approach, and key components required for success and share: - Lessons learned in the dashboard process - Best practices, including WCAG compliance, when designing dashboards - Techniques for herding your team to success

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.

Artificial intelligence and machine learning are expanding Tableau’s advanced analytics capabilities. Come join this special networking opportunity to discuss and see how others are using AI and ML with Tableau!

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

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.

Tune in to Devs on Stage as Tableau’s developer team demos the latest-and-greatest, as well as up-and-coming features. First-timers, get excited—this showdown has nailed standing ovations year after year. Expect an amped-up audience, quirky devs, innovative demos—and (hold onto your seats...) the updated features you’ve been asking for.

Join this session and learn how to use Tableau to visualize Isaac Newton's Law of Universal Gravitation for objects of the solar system. From there, solve the n-body problem of classical planetary mechanics.

Actions in Tableau put the interactive in Data Analysis! This session aims to provide a solid foundation for building rich dashboard applications and will cover best-practices for using Actions. At the end of this session, you will be able effectively consider and apply various interactive techniques, including action triggers and behavior within and across sheets. We’ll discuss: selection, filtering highlighting, navigation, and the *new* set action feature. We will also cover parameters, instant analytics, tooltips, and more!  

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

Educators make countless decisions every day to help students reach their full potential. In many schools, educators make those choices with limited or out-of-date information due to the extreme effort required to assemble relevant student data. In this talk, learn how the Connecticut RISE Network empowers partners with collaboratively designed dashboards and data protocols that allow educators to make informed decisions as efficiently as possible. You will see concrete examples of how teacher teams identify clusters of students in need of intervention, and then drill down to individual students to view multiple measures before deciding on personalized interventions for each student.

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?

Do you use marketing automation technologies to scale your demand generation efforts? Are you often left wondering how to digest and report on all this disparate data? Join us to hear how the Tableau marketing automation team has built and curated well-balanced data sources and dashboards that enable the entire marketing organization to understand the impact of email and campaign efforts, as well as served up integrated reporting to fulfill everyone's champagne and caviar dreams.

Most companies use two types of data together; one that does not update much, but another that is only valuable when the data is the most updated. In the trading industry, it is the same, but with enormous amounts of data updating in one millisecond. We would like to introduce how TradingScreen solves these challenges and provides better dashboard performance.

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.

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.

Applying real-world use cases, we will showcase example dashboards across key verticals such as: healthcare, government, finance, NGOs, retail, logistics, and telecoms. Join this session and see how Tableau users can find the value-add of location analytics beyond "dots on a map."

Stamford Health is a major teaching facility with outreach across Fairfield County, CT. It includes a 305-bed hospital and over 150 physicians across several specialties. With the creation of a centralized analytics department, Tableau was chosen as the enterprise-wide data visualization and reporting software. These changes helped improve reporting efficiency, organizational transparency, scheduling proficiency, and data consistency. Our dashboards were also able to replace several third-party vendors and avoid expensive consultant fees. Over the past few years, we have deployed custom analytics to the entire medical group organization, improving productivity, quality, financial, and operational performance. With the increased transparency into OR capacity and availability, we have empowered our staff and surgeons to deliver better care and our perioperative leadership to manage issues proactively.

In this session, you'll learn how to extend Tableau with the power of machine learning as a non-data scientist, and elevate your data analysts to citizen data scientists. Using Big Squid's machine learning platform Kraken, we'll show you how to uncover hidden patterns in your data and answer forward-looking business questions like "What will happen tomorrow?" and "What can we do about it today?". Come learn from other Tableau customers on how they embraced machine learning and saw immediate value with Kraken, running predictive analytics, what-if scenarios and providing actionable insight to the business. Get on the path to predictive today!

How excited were you when we released Viz in Tooltip? Little did you know that you can take this beautiful feature much further than just inserting it in a tooltip. We've come a long way since its first release, and the community has done some impressive things with it. In this session, we'll teach you how to make your Viz in Tooltip beautiful, interactive, multi-levelled, drill-able, zoom-able, conditional and more.

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.

Do you want to build visualizations that help your city or agency prioritize capital improvements? Direct resources to at-risk neighborhoods? Improve emergency operations? Increase cross-departmental collaboration? A major impediment to city staff making well-informed decisions that support equitable, long-term solutions is the lack of reliable data presented in an easy-to-understand format. Using open data in Tableau can help you solve that problem. In this session, learn how Headwaters Economics is using Tableau and U.S. Census data to provide cities across the country with access to up-to-date, neighborhood-level information about at-risk people and their vulnerability to the impacts from climate change. Learn lessons for developing Tableau tools for your city or agency. Headwaters Economics will share examples and design practices that have resulted from working directly with municipal staff.

Tableau President & CEO, Adam Selipsky, and other data leaders will share their vision for the future of visual analytics.

The volume and variety of data continues to increase dramatically as a medium-sized media company has transitioned from a primarily analog company to a digital one. However, the existing reporting tools left access to that data in the hands of very few people. Wanting to change this and knowing that there were budget restrictions, we deployed Tableau Online. Leveraging a phased approach, proved to be successful as the buzz around using data for decision-making has never been higher. Learn about our journey through the peaks and valleys of introducing Tableau Desktop and Online. Learn about practical things that worked and minefields to avoid when deploying Tableau.

Satisfy your hunger for data and put your Tableau recipes to the test. In this class, we will take you on a journey behind the scenes into the Tableau Kitchen to see where all the house specials are made. Expect  a robust flavor profile from spicy visualizations to savory table calculations, leave feeling inspired with new tips in tricks to take home to your Tableau kitchen.  Heads up, this class does require some preparation. Before enrolling, makes sure you a working knowledge of the advanced computing options for Table Calculations, familiarity with standard table calculations, and comfort writing calculations.

PS. Toque and smock required (just kidding)

Tableau users are naturally more likely to adopt a dashboard if it feels familiar and customized for them. With so many options of how to format in Tableau, it can sometimes feel daunting to be assigned the task of implementing a seamless and repeatable corporate standard. In this session, you will learn how to create a unified look and theme across dashboards in Tableau Desktop, Tableau Server and on mobile devices, without even needed a degree in graphic design. You will also learn how to provide templates for your designs to be reused by others. Finally, the session will cover how to customize your Tableau Server interface or use the Javascript API to take advantage of existing user portals.

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

Over the past three years, our team replaced a custom-coded business intelligence tool with Tableau Server as the global backbone of our client data visualization and analytics platform. In this session, we will share our journey from a few Tableau Desktop users, to a fully deployed and adopted client-facing technology solution. We will cover technical deployment, cloud configuration/architecture, adoption and usage, and data feed integration strategies. We will guide you through creating a branded secure web portal, to publishing visualizations created by different software tools through Tableau Server. Ultimately you will learn how implementing Tableau Server allowed us to put UX and UI decisions in the hands of the front-line business experts and eliminate technical coding as the bottleneck to continuous product improvement.

Data delivery is an essential factor in Premera’s mission to make healthcare work better.  Premera’s journey to "take data to the edge" was propelled over 5 years ago when Tableau Server was unleashed and made widely available to the analytic community, as an enterprise level analytics distribution platform. Tableau introduced a profound culture change at Premera and pivoted the way we deliver, define, and communicate information.  The hunger for data immediacy was realized very early on.  With the immediacy of information came concerns on data custody.  Tableau also brought to light a new way to communicate information.
In this presentation, we will share our lessons learned, how we overcame challenges and our future direction, showcased via Tableau solutions.

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.

Providence Health is one of the largest healthcare systems in the US, challenged with delivering the highest quality of care enabling superior patient outcomes at the lowest cost.

In this presentation, Providence Health will present their Value Oriented Architecture (VOA) built with Tableau, to concurrently present and correlate the cost-of-care and meaningful clinical outcomes (“value”) using an apples-to-apples comparison across different providers. This enables a deep dive into the variances in outcomes and costs, and root causes thereof, to proactively address these and drive performance improvement. Learn how the physician-designers of the VOA partnered with clinicians across a 50 hospital system to create and deliver a Self-Service Visual Analytics platform for practice transparency and best practice discovery that is enabling superior performance and outcomes at a lower cost.

Why sit alone during lunch when you could chow down with your fellow IT professionals? Join Tableau's Michael Hetrick Tom Wasserman and Manish Agarwal, product marketing managers focused on supporting IT professionals like yourselves.

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.

With Web Data Connectors you can connect Tableau to any web service with a little code. In this session, we'll walk through what a Web Data Connector is and the tools that help you write one. We'll even write one on stage to connect to live data!

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.

Companies around the world are transforming their businesses by moving to the cloud. Considering moving your Tableau or data platforms to the cloud? Contemplating a next-gen cloud-based data warehouse? Join us for a hands-on walkthrough of key cloud deployment data points. The session will cover Tableau Server topics like improved High Availability and Disaster Recovery options, dynamic provisioning, and elastic cluster configuration. Diving a bit deeper into data warehousing, we’ll cover the basics and investigate topics like data localization, elastic computing, streaming, and multi-cloud solutions within data platforms like Snowflake, Azure, and AWS. Learn from InterWorks’ global consulting team as well as companies like Tableau who’ve made the switch to cloud. Take home key roadmap components and the top five most crucial steps you’ll need to know on your journey to the clouds.

Why is the weather forecast always wrong? Are all shopping centres the same? Do bands always play the same set at gigs? How can we use data to answer these everyday questions you might debate with friends? That’s what two Zen Masters, Chris Love and Rob Radburn have been doing for the last six months. In this session, we’ll show you how we think-up questions, the tools we used to collect and wrangle data, and how we viz. And then show how we make sense of it all to provide an understanding of the data. Come along if you are looking for inspiration for your own Tableau projects, tips on getting agile and creative at work, or to see the world differently.

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.

Are you struggling to make sense of your survey data? Understanding the steps to prepare survey data for analysis is key to be able to then easily analyze that data. This session will cover reshaping, cleaning data in Tableau Prep and finally visualizing survey data in Tableau Desktop.

How many hours of valuable time have you spent recycling the same data in different configurations and combinations? How would you like to create a metric just once and be done? Find out Cerner used the JavaScript API and Node.js to allow five designers meet the ever-evolving needs of more than three thousand consultants and their leadership. You'll discover how we used cross-dashboard filtering in the API to dramatically improve performance and simplify data exploration. We'll talk about the business demand, data governance, and technology we used to create "Reportal" and invite our organization to build their own dashboards.

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.

In 1994, a few thousand runners participated in the first Walt Disney World Marathon. 25 years later, Walt Disney World hosts several of the largest races in the United States. A visualized history of runDisney events is presented to illustrate the differences in participant behavior compared to other similarly sized non-Disney running events. This session uses Tableau to investigate how the behavior of runDisney participants has changed over time and compares this behavior to select non-Disney events across the 25-year history of running at Disney World. Visualization enthusiasts will appreciate the advanced chart types, complex calculations and data manipulation required to create Tableau visualizations from publicly posted runDisney race results.

Are you new to (or considering!) Tableau Server and looking for ways to on-board users, promote best practices, and scale adoption with ease? Organizations new to Tableau Server often struggle with laying the right foundations for success. Discover how easy Tableau Server can be for new users with tools like Certified Data Sources and Dashboard Starters. Learn how to teach your users the basics around organizing, and securing your sites, projects, and data sources. Finally, learn how enabling adoption can lead to better insights for the entire organization!

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.

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.

In this session, we'll demonstrate how we use Python, Tableau story templates, and the Tableau API libraries to automate the production of customized analytics for our clients. We will also show how we use Tableau Server workbook tags and custom permissions to drive the delivery through our front-end web application. This results in higher client engagement, and an easier entry for people new to analytics.

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.

Instacart is building the future of grocery delivery, and to do so we must solve hard logistics problems every day. Our solutions to these problems combine machine learning, optimization algorithms and product experimentation. To make continuous improvement we need to quickly understand how our logistics initiatives are driving system improvement. In this talk we'll introduce our framework for measuring long-term improvement and share how we use Tableau to view these changes day by day.

Apply a number of data level security approaches using Tableau Desktop, including data level suppression and masking. This session will discuss a number of best practices, including a hybrid use of Live Connection and Extracts, and data suppression techniques using calculated fields etc to ensure data is dynamically hidden, or masked as necessary for personally identifiable information.

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

Wondering when to use a calculated field, and LOD expression, or a table calculation? This session is for you. Come sleuth the right answers, and learn the principles behind applying specific methods to specific problems. You should have basic experience in table calculations.