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What is your name? What is your quest? What is the airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow? If you can only answer two of the three questions above, you’ve come to the right place. This introductory course on calculations will guide you through correctly aggregating data, constructing true-false analyses, writing if-then statements, and performing string and date calculations. Most importantly, we’ll be using what we learn to answer one of the most legendary questions of all time.

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

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.

Join this session and see examples that demonstrate why you would want to embed Tableau dashboards inside internal knowledge bases, blogs, and as a component in web applications. You also will get an introduction to the key features required to enable robust embedding.

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.

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

This 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.

Learn how to apply UX design principles to your dashboard creation process. Learn how to build dashboards that are more effective and appropriate for the audience they're intended for.

Do you ever look at a dashboard, gather insights, then open a business application to action? Do you want to bridge the gap between consuming data and acting on what the data is telling us, without waiting for deployment of the Extensions API? The Nationwide Claims department is using Tableau to assist not only leaders but associates, providing a platform to gain insights and act directly within our dashboards. Learn how we are using Tableau to help put lives back together after a claim and increase associate efficiency, using dashboard actions that interact with our claim handling systems. We will discuss: - Design and implementation strategy - Step-by-step integration of a Tableau dashboard into Guidewire’s ClaimCenter - Lessons learned

Join us for a special networking opportunity to engage with fellow DBAs. This gathering provides a casual environment to connect with people with a shared interest in SQL Server, Oracle, and other database systems as part of a Tableau environment.

Take a journey and learn how to utilize one of the most powerful and useful features of Tableau. Sets! This session will help build a foundation for beginners, and then offer a fast ramp-up on the various methods for creating sets. Dive into the simplicity of elementary cohort analysis, learn to quickly visualize set membership, and reduce the drama in your everyday analysis while running complex comparisons among set members. Get ready to fall in love with sets throughout this training as we explore data in a variety of different places!

Transportation benefits are one way for companies to differentiate themselves in recruiting great talent. Using our own HR survey data, we were able to derive valuable insights into employee commute behavior and design a more effective transportation program. Expanding beyond our own internal initiative, Tableau has partnered with the City of Seattle and the Washington State Department of Transportation to help companies analyze employee commute behavior and benchmark their program against other employers. Cities like Seattle are experiencing unprecedented growth and increasing traffic congestion, and employers that are able to tailor their commute programs to meet their employees’ needs will be more successful in employee retention. Come learn how Tableau enables employers and cities to solve a shared problem with data.

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.

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

Still maintaining your Tableau users and permissions by hand? Really? Well no more! We will share our experience at Pinnacle Entertainment of creating an automated method for enabling Tableau user access by individual employees across all areas of our Tableau Server projects.

Discover how to enhance collaboration between data scientists and business users. We will show how the integration between Tableau Server and R/Python will empower both types of users to complement each other’s skill sets and validate each other’s findings. Learn how to scale your deployment to larger audiences with best practices surrounding load balancing as well as performance optimization. We welcome both business users and data scientists to learn about the art of the possible when you combine advanced analytics with the Tableau experience you have come to expect in your enterprise.

Join this session to learn what the common server performance issues are, and where they can find relevant information to fix any issues. This will also help explain how to set up monitoring, to keep your server healthy.

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!

Being one of the largest retail pharmacy chains in the world, Walgreens wanted to leverage their data to optimize supply chain business strategy. To be able to achieve the use cases that will improve supply chain efficiency and reduce inventory costs, there is a need to process 466 billion rows of inventory data and sales data from over 20,000 suppliers and 9,000 stores. Their current systems were strained while dealing with the scale and cardinality of their data, and could not provide timely insights to thousands of suppliers and business users. The visualizations are essential to support the data sharing strategy between Walgreens and their suppliers. In this talk, Walgreens will describe how they use Kyvos and Tableau to analyze two years of historical data instantly and interactively to get deeper insights into their supply chain.

Data is everywhere. Now more than ever, users expect to have access to what they need when they need it—all at their fingertips. Matt Lewandowski, Analytics Team Lead at digital agency DEG, will demonstrate how to make the most of Tableau's device layout feature, maximizing every pixel on your mobile dashboards. He'll share design best-practices, the do's and don’ts of deploying mobile layouts, and how to scale mobile and tablet dashboards to meet your organization's growing needs. By using thoughtful design, attendees will leave this session with a better understanding of—and actionable takeaways for—strategies and best practices for enabling an optimized mobile experience with a relatively low level of effort.

Let's make content audits suck less. Learn how Tableau's SEO team used Tableau Desktop to tell the story of our big, messy technical content audit. Instead of keeping our audit in massive spreadsheets, we shared audit visualizations and insights via Tableau Server, expediting stakeholder buy-in and motivating action faster than a spreadsheet ever could. By connecting to live data and publishing to Tableau Server, stakeholders had the opportunity to explore content performance in ways that industry standard SEO tools, like Search Console and ScreamingFrog, do not offer. This session will show off some of the dashboards we made, the data story we were able to share with our stakeholders, the changes this project enabled, and how you can start visualizing your own content audits today.

If your job involves administrating and configuring Tableau Server, this session is for you! We will introduce you to a brand new way to configure your server right from a web browser, using Tableau Service Manager (TSM). We will contrast it with the old way of doing this with tabadmin and demonstrate some new key features such as hot topology and hot configuration changes.

Built on a strong track record of success, Accenture’s partnership with Tableau provides innovation and repeatable offerings across the Tableau platform. Accenture has a breadth of Tableau knowledge and expertise with 3,100+ global skilled resources, 6 Delivery Centers of Excellence and successful delivery of 150+ joint deployments. In this session, Accenture will showcase Accenture’s Visual Intelligence and Analytics depth of knowledge and experience leveraging Tableau in various offerings, assets and solutions such as Retail and Financial Services. Come and learn how we can help you transform and analyze your business with powerful business insights on demand.

Whether taking action from insights, enabling custom functionality, or even writing back to your data sources, the Extensions API helps take your dashboards to the next level. Join us in this session to learn about how the Extensions API enables all of these things (and more), and even get hands-on and build your very first extension. Note: Building an extension requires coding in JavaScript. Some elementary JS knowledge is strongly recommended for this hands-on training.

Fan of all things Tableau? Join Fanalyitcs for the ultimate gathering of Tableau Public authors. Expect inspiring presentations, passionate discussions, and exciting data workshops. Drinks will be available to keep the atmosphere bubbly, but seating is filled on a first-come basis, so be sure to arrive early! 

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.

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.

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

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.

Craving a viz that’s outside the box? Tableau’s SHOW ME feature is stellar—but sometimes something more specific is desired. Join this session and explore the multitude of chart types possible in Tableau. Learn how to build a Chord Diagrams, Waterfall Charts, Comet Charts, Radial Bar Charts, Marimekkos, Shape Fills and Skyline charts (All Charts TBD). We’ll also discuss the pros and cons of each chart, where you can find a good blog post on each viz, and briefly explore additional popular charts that are possible with Tableau.

In this session, you'll learn how to use Tableau Server open source tools like Scout and Replayer to perform basic acceptance testing and to measure user-perceived performance. We'll show you how to validate that your workbooks are still working, and that their performance hasn't regressed—after an upgrade of Tableau Server as well.

You want to create a first-class viz. But much of an analyst’s time is spent on finding the data, understanding it, trusting it and finally, landing it in Tableau. Just think how many phone calls, emails and corridor speed-chases you typically need to accomplish just that? Join Informatica and our valued customer to learn how to reach data analytics nirvana. Really! We will discuss and demonstrate a better way to discover and understand enterprise-wide data that is trusted and relevant - right from your Tableau workbook. Better yet, see how you can easily and quickly provision that data yourself, into your Tableau environment, in Hyper or TDE. All blessed by IT and your colleagues. Now everybody’s happy! See? We told you – data analytics nirvana! Our demo will feature an AI-driven data catalog showing you how to “shop” for data like you shop online.

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.

This session will help you learn how to use customize API and PG scripts to manage server administration such as automate content administration, how to have two HOT HOT clusters which can help achieve 0% down-time, different ways to speed-up content migration between different clusters, on-demand cache management based on freshness of the data and much more.

This session offers a brief overview of the new European Union General Data Privacy Regulation (GDPR) and shows you how use Tableau products to analyze, present, and store personal data successfully in the GDPR world.

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.

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.

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

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 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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

As the UK's second largest long-haul airline we have tons of interesting data ranging from the fares that passengers have paid for their seat to how many miniature bottles of gin we load onto our jumbo jets to Vegas!

Using Tableau Desktop, Tableau Server and Alteryx we have transitioned from a web of Excel based reports to an efficient, centralized portal where analysts, managers and leadership alike can gain the answers they need, when they need them.

In this session we will give practical examples of how we’ve made a number of small changes to improve our adoption along with braving a live demo to show just how quickly our analysts can create production-ready reports.

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!  

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

Spotify uses Tableau Public as a storytelling tool to share interesting insights about music, artists, and global listening behavior. Spotify Data Visualization Designer, Skyler Johnson, walks through several projects that combine Tableau Public and Spotify data. Alongside each story, learn a Tableau trick or visualization style that helped make each visualization possible, and walk away inspired to think about your own data in a different way.

Visualization best practices are baked into Tableau by design, which makes creating beautiful, effective visualizations easy, but transitioning to such reports may not happen overnight. Moving incrementally can avoid jarring your audience with a complete redesign of familiar dashboards and the ability to iterate quickly can make Tableau a great tool for a journey to more effective reporting, but the biggest obstacle on this path is often the very first step. How can you migrate legacy reports to Tableau as literally as possible? Why is it so hard and what are some subtle enhancements that you can incorporate to slowly build support for better visualization?