Sessions

At the Portland Trail Blazers, we pride ourselves on being a data-based decision organization. As a professional sports team, it is key to retain our most loyal fans, and this is achieved by renewing our season ticket holders each year. And at the core of that, data transparency is key. Learn how Tableau helps us achieve transparency with executives and key staff across departments within the organization and how our Organizational Renewal Dashboard connects multiple data sources with Tableau, allowing us to track renewal of our valuable customers, be proactive in our retention efforts.

Need to combine data from disparate sources? Scarier still—do you have data in spreadsheets, databases, and multiple other systems? Is it in the cloud? If reading this just amped up your heart rate, this session is for you. Learn basic techniques needed to bring data together (from all different data sources), and all within Tableau! There are no prerequisites for this session, but it’ll be especially helpful for users who bring a basic knowledge of the Tableau Desktop interface. Expect to master the basics of data blending in Tableau, an intro to cross-database joins, terminology, troubleshooting and more.

With an organization of over 100 projects and an annual $2 billion budget, the Federal Aviation Administration’s (FAA) Program Management Organization could not afford to be siloed in its approach towards making decisions. Integrated dashboards have brought together the financial, technical, and human resource community to rethink its approach towards evaluating investments, project planning, and implementing programs. Tableau has shifted the conversation from one project to a portfolio view and isolated cases to systemic issues. Tableau Server has enabled these conversations to occur at all levels throughout the organization. Access has expanded from a few to the entire workforce (e.g. headquarters and field employees). It’s served as a resource for responding to time sensitive requests from the FAA management team and external stakeholders (e.g. Congress).

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.

Have you ever felt that you are not getting the full potential out of sets? Join this session to learn more about how sets can be used to answer powerful analytics questions and discuss their various strengths and limitations. Expect to explore many ways sets are used to support deep analysis in Tableau.

Check out this session to learn more about parameters, when and why they are useful, and how to leverage them as a powerful tool in your analysis. You’ll witness how parameters are used in Tableau Desktop, Tableau Server, and via the Tableau API. We will use parameters in common and uncommon analytics scenarios and address how they can be used to build interactive experiences in Tableau.

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

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.

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.

As part of the creation of a platform to enable a drive to transform digital procurement at the at Mondelez International, we had two objectives. First, creating one central data repository (HANA) to house purchase order transactions and invoice transactions. And second, a way to visualize and support the analysis (Tableau) leveraging all data elements relevant to these transactions. Learn how we supported a standard solution to drive business process efficiencies, with the end result of cost savings and cash generation across our global operation.

Data-driven decisions are paramount to thriving and growing in today’s business, government, and service environments. In this session, the Grande Cheese Company shares how to leverage vast resources of publicly available data from governments, non-governmental organizations, and commercial sources to augment and enhance understanding; leading to better business decisions. Topics include: - Sources and access methods to publicly available data sets, reliability and biases in data, and opportunities to use public data both tactically and strategically - Tableau demonstrations using public data from North/South America, Europe, and Oceania will focus on proper organization, presentation, and visualization of data and methods to restructure data within Tableau to make comparative analysis and glean understanding.

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.

Tableau includes 24 out-of-the-box chart types in its “Show Me” panel. While these will likely meet most of your needs, there are times when you may wish to go beyond the show me panel and create completely custom charts and maps. In this session, Tableau Zen Masters Matt Chambers and Ken Flerlage will show you how to leverage the power of the Tableau platform to do just this. So, let’s go “Beyond Show Me” and delve into the world of custom charts and maps, the techniques used to create them, and the practical applications of the following: • Tile, Hex, and Area Tile Maps • Density Maps • Layered Shapefiles • Sankeys Charts • Mathematical Visualizations • Data Art

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.

In the land of jazz, we go back to basics with Tableau Server. We look at its foundation and how it has evolved until 2018, with Linux availability. Like Louis Armstrong leading the way with his trumpet, Tableau Server is the pillar of the Tableau platform and a key part of the BI strategy for many companies. In this session, you will go away with advice on how to keep the bass drum of your analytics thumping along nicely. Learn how to plan your new server, its capacity and when to scale up. This is a session for jazz lovers, backgrounder investigators and Vizql tuners.

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.

Wondering how to get the most out of your database when connecting to Tableau? What are best practices for Querying, Custom SQL, Extracts, Blending, Joins, Unions and Federated Joins? Join this session and learn on Tableau and Database Performance.

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.

Whether you’re new to Tableau Online or a Desktop user, this hands-on session ensures you leave with a fully established Tableau Online trial site (complete with Tableau's SaaS solution). Join us for a deep-dive into how to analyze your data, govern your info, add users, and share insights—all from the comfort of the cloud.

At Axis, we’ve embedded functionality for easy access to detailed, actionable data. The insurance industry is comprised of quantitative and analytical minds across underwriting, claims, actuarial and finance. Tableau visualizations are used throughout the organization to help these groups understand trends and performance against goals. Insurance professionals need specific details including account, broker, location and claim, in order to take action. In addition, executives need consistent, structured reporting packs while leveraging interactive dashboards to understand drivers. Participants will gain functional and technical understanding on practical uses of Tableau: - Dashboards that expose variance details, including links to other reports and direct Excel downloads - Leverage customized, dashboard-driven reporting packs built with scripted logic - Integrate Tableau into regulatory controls, data quality, and operational process flows - Support change in underwriting portfolio/operating models

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.

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.

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.

The small analytics team at Artisan Partners manages over 70 Tableau Desktop users and 370 Tableau Server users with minimal effort thanks to our scalable security model, training of business users, and monitoring via Tableau’s PostgreSQL database. Learn how to develop a successful self-service strategy and implementation plan that empowers users to ask and answer their own questions. Create allies among the business, IT, and data governance by providing transparency. Walk away with clear action items (and a pre-built workbook!) that are easy to implement.

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.

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.

Analytics is truly successful when fully translated into actions and results. SOC Telemed is a healthcare company, and we are transforming healthcare industry by building data-driven culture within and outside our organization. There is a better way to visualize data that communicates actionable insights which drives results. Expect key takeaways such as: - Creating a user-focused online portal managing users based on row level security with subscriptions and alerts - Designing interactive dashboards with action filters and user-defined benchmarking - Building a data-driven culture through constant presence of data, obsessing over sequential improvement in key metrics, and celebrating quantifiable success (ROI)

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".

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.

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

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.

There are many choices when it comes to chart types. While bar charts may seem “boring” compared to bubble charts, each graphic has its pros and cons when it comes to visualizing data. Given a business question, one may want to examine a relationship or look at times series data. A bar chart, while familiar, is actually structured in an efficient way for humans to compare length of bar, and thus rank items well.

This session aims to equip participants with a specific process to weigh the pros and cons, and ultimately, choose the right visualization to get the insights they need from their data. This interactive session will include real-world examples from professional services customers.

Learn to communicate more effectively by using metaphor in data visualization. Metaphors help people understand something new in relation to something they already know. Whether literal or abstract, metaphor can help your users understand your message by using comparisons to tangible items like height, or abstract concepts like sound as the basis for more accessible chart communication.

We will walk through several examples of Tableau dashboards that use visual metaphors, and discuss what makes effective and ineffective metaphors. In this session, you’ll learn how metaphors work with mental models to help users understand and retain information, as well as how to tell engaging and memorable visual stories with Tableau’s out-of-the-box features by adding visual thinking techniques into their design process.

Tableau users are passionate, but how do they spread that passion predictably across an enterprise? Come to learn the 10 ingredients—added in the right steps—that led to a recipe for success for over 55,000 people at GE, J&J, and other leading Tableau clients. Delivered by experts (and former customers) in Tableau's Customer Success team.

Bring out the magic from your data and create impactful visualizations and meaningful data stories. In this talk we show how you can achieve powerful performance and effective storytelling with the right tools and a smart approach. We will take you through a live demo and leave you with our recommended best practices for tackling large data volumes in Exasol, visualized quickly in Tableau. Join us for a session packed with tips, real business scenarios and some visual inspiration.

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

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.

A few weeks after taking the reigns as Tableau Product owner at Micron I started feeling like I had bitten off a lot more than I could chew. Shifting to a crowdsource structure has enabled us to do a lot more with limited resources. Developing an effective COE has been an essential part of this effort. Lessons learned can be stepping stones for others.

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.

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

Learn how Walmart empowers users with self-service analytics by leveraging vast amounts of structured and unstructured data. In today's world, there is a greater need to extract more value from this information. Self-service analytics has evolved as the right solution by empowering everyone (including IT) to access and analyze the data for making the right business decisions. Join Heidi Daniels, of Walmart Labs, to understand how her team successfully maintains and manages the data visualization platform in Tableau. Jesse McElmury, of Teradata, will share key best practices that enable Walmart to tackle challenges presented by one of the largest Tableau implementations in the world.

Join us for a rich discussion on important topics within the Data + Women Community. In addition to notable women contributors to our community, you’ll hear from customers and Tableau leaders alike about the challenges they’ve faced, the inspirations with which they have built their lives and careers, and—most importantly—how we can grow and succeed together collaboratively. #visualizediversity

Every company is sitting on top of an exponentially increasing amount of data without making the most of it. We all know Tableau helps to make sense out of data but have you considered integrating Tableau into your existing applications? This session will jumpstart your Tableau JavaScript API skills with a live demo showing what is possible and what our customers are doing today. At the end of the session you’ll have a better understanding of all the ways the Tableau JavaScript API can work for you! #TableauJsApi.

Are you considering migrating your data to the public cloud? Have you wondered about the implications for your business intelligence strategy? In this session, we will cover best practices from creating a foundation, all the way up to optimizing for performance and scale. We will also present several customer examples that demonstrate a successful transition to the cloud.

Learn how Amazon Redshift and Tableau make it easier to analyze and visualize your data at scale. Amazon Redshift is a fast, scalable data warehouse that makes it simple and cost-effective to analyze all your data across your data warehouse and data lake. Tableau’s ability to connect directly to Redshift and leverage its massive computing power means even the most non-technical business user can quickly discover business insights with easy to use drag and drop visual analytics.

In this workshop we will walk you through the process of deploying an Amazon Redshift data warehouse. We will load data into Amazon Redshift from files in an Amazon S3 bucket from beginning to end. Then we will show you how to use Tableau to visually analyze your data.

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.

Remember arriving at a new airport trying to orient yourself and find your luggage? You likely appreciated the clear signs pointing you to the baggage claim. Now think about a user opening one of your dashboards trying to orient themselves and find clear answers. Is it as easy to find insights as it was to find your luggage? Most dashboards have well-designed charts but lack clear signage to help people discover more about their business. Join Sarah to learn ways to move from a fact-filled dashboard to a guided experience showing a clear path to insights and actions. She will share techniques ranging from a simple text box to something more complex like natural language generation.

Are you struggling to keep up with customers’ appetite for more and more data? Is it a struggle to keep your infrastructure up-to-date with the latest and greatest features? Come listen to Tableau’s story of how we're rewriting our data menu by embracing the cloud using Tableau Online and Snowflake data warehouse. We'll share our vision of how to enable a healthy data diet for everyone.

Tableau Doctor removes adoption roadblocks by helping patients worldwide answer questions and resolve issues. In this session, Tableau’s Global Tableau Doctor program managers will share best practices on implementing a similar program in your organization - Data Doctor. Learn how to drive adoption by enabling end-users to get their questions answered and how to capture data to identify employee knowledge gaps and training opportunities, and track program success and areas for improvement.

Tableau helps people quickly analyze their data. But what if an application was designed with an incomplete understanding of the problem domain, and a data model doesn’t exist? In this session, we will explore how users can leverage Tableau’s Extract API to create data models. We will share our use-case—how we created one of the world’s first data models for analyzing patient continuous infusion drugs, as well as the five-minute version of how Texas Children’s Hospital is leveraging this data to better treat critically ill pediatric patients. Finally, we will focus on the nuts and bolts of the Extract API, review our use-case in detail, jump into the Extract API, and walk everyone through a step-by-step of creating their first data model.