Sessions

Wondering how to deploy an IoT solution that could bring tremendous value to your organization? Get inspired by compelling Tableau Customer IoT journeys, ranging from small businesses willing to unlock new opportunities from sensor data, to the largest enterprises providing IoT Platforms, Solutions and Expertise As A Service. In addition, we'll show live on stage a way to jump-start your IoT project with a flexible platform that can be tailored to your needs, by leveraging AWS and Tableau.

Zulily’s marketing success in recent years has been driven by serving an end-to-end personalized experience using advanced machine learning and data science techniques, from customer acquisition to retention. Hear how zulily increased active customers by 800,000 in 2017 by utilizing Tableau visualizations as a self-service tool, and how this translated itself into better communications with customers. You will learn about how zulily embraces discovery-based shopping, as well as how our marketing team built and continues to build a passionate customer base using data-backed insights.

AI has created the single biggest technology revolution the world has ever seen. Clients need to be shown how they can accelerate and automate data processing and realization. Allowing AI to uncover the real opportunities that turn that data processing into business improvements. By using automation and virtually enabling visualizations with AI we can allow businesses to achieve their goals the right way— not just by sharing information, but by empowering the users with information so that they can achieve the goals.

Calling all problem solvers and workout junkies! Join us as we tackle one of the most revered community initiatives LIVE: #WorkoutWednesday! What is #WorkoutWednesday you ask? The idea is simple: participants challenge themselves to rebuild a dashboard from scratch using predefined requirements and a fully built dashboard as inspiration. In this interactive session, you’ll flex your brain and grow your Tableau skills as you work through the weekly challenge. Plus, you’ll get to see the dashboards recreated in real time by coaches Luke, Rody, and Ann. The best part? You don’t have to wait for Tableau Conference to start getting active. Join us weekly for the challenge at www.workout-wednesday.com and look for our special TC edition to be posted well in advance.

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.

Toronto is Canada's most populated city and home to its wealthiest demographic, yet more than one in four children live in poverty. Raising the Village is an initiative that uses Tableau to mobilize and translate child well-being data. This session will highlight how Tableau is used to integrate data from multiple population-level data sources and display information by neighborhood, race, income and gender. Interactive Tableau dashboards are now being used by community organizations, governments, and policy makers across Toronto to support evidence-informed decision making. This session will also highlight the deployment of Tableau Online to support the increased use of Tableau for internal municipal government planning decisions, and will outline a long-term plan to build a culture of analytics for an important cause.

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.

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

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

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.

Want to further explore your business intelligence data? OLAP databases like SQL Server Analysis Services and Oracle Essbase are likely the peas to your carrots. In this session, we’ll tackle efficient methods for maximizing the use of Tableau against cubes. (Note: this isn’t a deep-dive into OLAP cubes, and will focus on specific exercises in Tableau.)

Kick off your Tableau Conference experience by engaging with fellow banking, insurance, wealth management and capital markets enthusiasts. This informative, casual gathering aims to inspire conversations and connections among those across financial services.

Flex is ushering in the Age of Intelligence by delivering insights, cultivating ideas, and pushing boundaries. Through leadership in design, engineering and manufacturing digitization, Flex is on a mission to put supply chain management at the heart of a smarter, more connected world. In support of that goal, FlexPulse is a purpose-built platform which takes our supply chain data and delivers it in an insightful and actionable form. Join us to get an overview of our Pulse environment, its evolution, and how we partner with Tableau in our journey from data to Intelligence.

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

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.

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.

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.

Dashboard Extensions enable Tableau to do new things and become even more powerful. In this session, we will introduce what extensions are and talk about how you can start developing your own. We’ll also give lots of demos that show the breadth of use cases for extensions by taking action on an insight discovered, adding new functionality to dashboard, implementing custom write-back, and more.

At Tableau, we believe that customer engagement helps us build better software. Come hear how User Research, Pre-Release Programs, Forums, Zen Masters, and other customer engagement programs bring the customer experience to life within our development organization. Hear from our customers about their experience and see how customer feedback impacts Tableau. Walk away with a better idea of how Tableau uses your input and a process framework you might deploy at your own organization!

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

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.

You've decided you want to up your Tableau game, and you think you could use a mentor to help you. Great! A formalized, focused mentoring relationship can accelerate your professional development no matter what your level of expertise, from absolute beginner to seasoned veteran. After all, you don't need to go it alone: a good mentor can be an advocate, a facilitator, a guide, a teacher, and a coach. But to get the most out of your mentorship, it takes a commitment and investment in the process—on the part of both the mentor and the mentee. In this session, you'll hear about the specific benefits of finding—and being—a mentor, how to find the right mentoring relationship for you, and hear mentorship success stories from the Tableau community.

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!

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.

Join us on Monday before the welcome reception to learn about the diversity and inclusion activities during Tableau Conference and connect with your fellow D&I enthusiasts.

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!  

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.

Creating equitable territories for your sales team is critical to having a productive, efficient, and happy sales team. Join this session to learn how Tableau’s own sales operations team uses Tableau for the creation of sales territories. Learn about the process, beginning with valuing postal codes, moving on to compiling those into balanced territories, and finally loading territories into our CRM platform. In particular, you'll learn how we leverage the power of Tableau’s geospatial functionality to interactively create custom territories.

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.

Tableau is working to boost our support for data science workflows by strengthening our integrations for languages like Python and R, as well as popular platforms like MATLAB. As these tools become more common in the market, we want to understand your needs and use cases for statistics and machine learning technologies, and how we can make your experience in Tableau powerful and delightful. Get the latest scoop from the team and share your experiences and ideas to help guide our plans!

Join this technical deep-dive into what Tableau Bridge does, how it works, and best practices for a performant, resilient deployment.

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.

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.

Ready to master the art of Tableau? In this session, learn best practices for visual analysis in Tableau, master some core Tableau concepts, and gain useful tips that'll ensure you become a data rock star. You'll discover more about preparing your data in Tableau, customizing fields in your data, exploring your data by asking questions and building views to find answers, creating dynamic views and filtering views, and building interactive dashboards.

Our developers love to make Tableau user life easier. This is also true for Tableau Server/Online administrators who are governing small and large deployments. With the REST API, you can manage and change Tableau Server/Online resources (workbooks, groups, projects, etc.) programmatically. During this session you will learn how to leverage Tableau REST API, discover how to use an existing Python library to streamline and simplify REST API calls and learn to develop successful applications and script integrations based on customers’ examples. This session will involve hands-on coding in python and while samples will be provided and explanations offered, prior exposure to python syntax will be expected.

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.

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.

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.

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.

In this session, attendees will see examples and real scenarios that will illustrate how developers can leverage Tableau’s open-source server monitoring utilities and combine them with intelligent, real-time analytics to monitor Tableau environments at scale. Attendees will get a firsthand preview of an entire analytics suite which showcases Tableau design and reporting best practices all while capturing information about Tableau usage, performance, concurrency and so much more. In addition to that, this session will show how this information can be turned into developer-facing solutions, providing otherwise unknown details on what’s happening in Tableau sites and projects and allowing them to transition and evolve with their users at speed.

The Marketing Analytics team at Tableau has been working on a large-scale marketing attribution analysis that involves building up our comprehensive customer journey data across many marketing channels, and attributing true effect of marketing to these channels. We use a combination of Markov Chain Model and traditional Media Mix Model to produce a simulation of how spend across channels impact leads and revenue. Along the way, we uncovered the power of visualization in making complex models accessible to end-users, and helping everyone “see” the model. In this session, you will not only see how Tableau as a marketer tackles one of the most challenging problems in marketing, but also see the power of using Tableau as a tool to bring down barriers to understanding sophisticated models.

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.

You've learned about actions and interactivity, but how do you truly implement a “guided analytics” approach where performance and user experience live in perfect harmony? This session will empower you to combine numerous techniques to create truly snappy and engaging dashboards that your users will love.

Learn how a division of Home Depot is increasing customer experience and saving money by holding our vendors accountable using interactive Tableau dashboards and machine learning. Getting orders right the first time and produced/shipped on time is paramount to our customers. Exposing production times and other data to our vendors through secure, well designed Tableau dashboards, our teams are helping them achieve these goals. Our machine learning models help detect problem orders before they occur, alerting our teams before they get to the vendor, helping save production costs and improving customer satisfaction.

Finding and accessing quality data has been an unresolved issue for decades. Data users of the past have accepted this mediocrity, but savvy Tableau users know better and expect more. Data marketplaces have entered the scene as a relevant and timely new trend that might just force the change required.

Join guest speaker Brian Hopkins, VP and Principal Analyst at Forrester for an interactive session on a recent Forrester consulting study “Digital Is Driving the Next Generation Of Data Marketplaces.”* Brian will share results and discuss how:  

· 96 percent of firms believe timeliness and accuracy issues with customer data acquisition are big problems.
· Respondents experiences on inaccurate data can mean lost revenue and lost customers, but marketplaces can help.
· Data plays a significant role in digital transformation and the key to success lies with fresh and accurate customer data.

*A December 2017 commissioned study conducted by Forrester Consulting on behalf of Pitney Bowes

Want mobile visualizations outside of Tableau Mobile? Have an existing app you’d like to juice up with some vizzes? This session will dive deep into Tableau’s open-source mobile app bootstrap. We’ll discuss the new React Native framework and how it enables web developers to write cross-platform apps. We’ll also cover how to retrieve viz images for offline use, the basics of authenticating with Tableau Server, and how to set up long-lasting user sessions. Common app pitfalls will also be covered, alongside tales of amazement…and sadness…from organizations who’ve worked with the mobile app bootstrap.

The Tableau Community is unlike any other – our passionate members are why we do what we do! This is a chance to come meet the Tableau Community Team, Tableau Ambassadors, Zen Masters and User Group leaders. If you’re interested in starting your own User Group, want to learn what it takes to become a Zen Master or Tableau Ambassador, or just want to network with some of the smartest people we know, you won’t want to miss this meetup.

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.

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.

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.

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