Sessions

The healthcare industry is under pressure to reduce costs, while keeping the customer front and center. Our presentation will walk through: - Changes implemented to achieve greater affordability by increasing our fee for value programs - How our Tableau reporting solution enables physician groups to drill into actionable trends, such as steering patients to higher quality specialists, reducing unnecessary care, reducing opioid prescriptions, and targeted quality of care for preventive and chronic diseases. - Our redesigned reporting solution that allows physicians/practice managers to understand patient trends, leveraging a Tableau Server installation, exposed beyond our firewall to external physician group partners. Its secure, group-specific dynamic reporting is accessible via a multi-use Cigna web portal.

Many of us have been, or are in, the position of implementing or expanding an Analytics program. In many of those cases, we face resistance. This can be especially fierce when doing a modern self-service rollout vs. a legacy centralized implementation. Roadblocks can take the form of security, costs, benefits, features, and plain old obstructionists. Hear from Tableau’s Director of Enterprise Analytics as he shares his experiences, both inside and outside of Tableau, of being in that same position. You’ll learn how to prepare for those potential obstacles, gather the right data, and build support through both cultural and technological changes. Put into practice, you can get your approvals and make your next deployment a smashing success!

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.

In this session we will demystify sets, one of Tableau’s most powerful analytics features. Whether you haven’t used sets, or deeply know their ins and outs, this session is for. If you enjoy sunsets, dislike being upset, and possess an analytical mindset… well, you will love sets.

Hear from Tableau about our most recent Diversity & Inclusion initiatives, then join an open conversation to share successes and learnings, be inspired by D&I-minded peers, and gather applicable insights.

Data Security takes a lot of ingredients, and even if you’ve got a recipe that works for a nightly dinner, you may need a new plan when everyone’s coming for a celebration (like TC18!) . Ron, Jon and Bryant are here to show you how to make Going Big Easy with all of your row level security needs. As members of Tableau’s Embedded Analytics and GSI teams, they handle only the biggest and most complex of customer security use cases, and in this session, they’ll learn you how to make programmatic variations on data sources, secure incoming API parameters, and even generate entire data sets in Hyper with security baked right in.

By using Tableau you’re already gaining indispensable insight and transformative value with your data. Tableau’s capabilities provide limitless opportunity as the end user can discover, explore and share data asking and answering questions at the flow of their own thought. But, whether you’re an administrator, key stakeholder or end user, how well you leverage Tableau can significantly impact your success and long-term business adoption. In this session, we’ll explore how to fully engage with Tableau, provide you with a road map to data-driven success, use cases and introduce you to tools to ensure lasting value with your Tableau investment. 

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.

Think you have what it takes to be a Tableau Jedi? We’ve scoured the universe for the toughest calculations known to mankind and bring them to you. Come test out your calculation skills in this trial-by-fire desktop challenge session. We’ll dare you to solve questions that hit on Pareto calcs, Trellis charts, data blending, table calcs and more! Expect to tackle the hardest calcs in Tableau, learn the theory behind them, work with your classmates, and become a Jedi Master!

Ideal for site and server admins, this session covers job management features coming out this year. Learn how to better enable users via customized schedules, and regain piece of mind.

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

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

"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.

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.

As seen in devs on stage, Tableau is bringing powerful new capabilities to interactive analytics in 2018.3. The new set action feature means you can design custom interactivity beyond filtering and highlighting. Now you can colour, group, hide, or filter a single axis with a selection. The applications are monumental - proportional brushing, benchmarking, relationship analysis, period comparisons, conditional aggregation, and single member drill down to name a few. This session is a must for anyone who has ever wanted dynamic multi select parameters!

Hey data wizard—want to make magic? Join this session and master the tricks to best utilize the multiple marks cards and dual axis charts behind amazing visualizations. We'll teach you how to synchronize axes, and how to best use chart types with multiple marks.

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)

We’ve all seen visuals that push the boundaries of what Tableau is capable of. Attend this session to learn how the folks on Tableau Public do it! We’ll explore various advanced-to-Jedi level chart types – everything from dumbbell charts and hex tile maps, to Sankeys and sunbursts.

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.

Are you tasked with monitoring a Tableau Server? Getting ready to upsize and want to ensure your IT toolkit has everything you need to monitor, test and troubleshoot? Ever wonder how TabMon differs from PerfMon, or when you should use Scout instead of Tabjolt? Heard about Logshark, but don't know when or why you'd use it? This session is for you! We'll provide attendees with an overview of some of the publicly available Tableau Server tools.

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.

The insurance market is a competitive space. The General, an insurance company focused on providing affordable high-quality auto insurance, turned to analytics and data science for their edge. By using Alteryx + Tableau together, they overhauled their standard reporting process, creating such a seamless experience that many end-users can’t tell where Alteryx ends and Tableau begins. The General revolutionized their standard annual reporting process and turned it into a state-of-the-art analytics feat that delivers insights on a rolling 12-month basis. Join this session to learn how The General’s cross-functional team collaborated and leveraged the award-winning Alteryx platform to modernize forecasting through analytics and data science, breaking data barriers, delivering more impactful insights, and allowing their team to experience the thrill of getting to the answer faster.

Tableau's mission is to allow users to ask questions of their data and see the answers. However, this isn't always as easy as it sounds. Where do you start? How do you translate a question that you have into a Tableau visualization so that you can see the answer? In this session, we will walk through some examples and build a framework for breaking down questions to see how the question can be translated into operations in the Tableau interface. We will work on understanding how the level of detail in a question impacts how you set up your data source, and the features you use in Tableau.

What makes for a great dashboard? Better yet, what makes a good dashboard? Best yet, what even is a dashboard? Dashboards and dashboarding are the buzzwords of analytics and tend to be thrown around without a lot of context or understanding.

In this session we will dive into the underlying principles that make them successful as well as how to utilize them properly for successful adoption.

In order to succeed in this training, you must be interested in learning about dashboards, have a sense of humor, and bring a computer loaded with Tableau. To get the most out of Tableau, you should have a basic understanding of how to operate Dashboards.

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.

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 performance of your Tableau Server deployment can make or break your users' experiences, and the acceptance of Tableau within your organization. Let's roll up our sleeves and take a deep dive into understanding how different components of Tableau Server work together, and how to maximize your deployment's performance. Learn about tools and methods to monitor the performance of your deployment and diagnose underlying problems. Gain a deeper understanding of how workbook load times, backgrounder schedules, query performance, and virtual machines all have on your system as a whole.

The State of Missouri’s Department of Social Services, Family Support Division (DSS FSD) provides Missouri citizens can apply to access to benefits such as: food stamps, child care, temporary assistance, and adult and family medicaid insurance. To meet or exceed application processing timeliness, the risk analysis unit developed real-time operation business intelligence dashboards for decision makers and front-line staff. This session will share our success in providing operational reports with Tableau and show examples of dashboards currently used by the State of Missouri DSS FSD. Attendees of this session will learn about: - Getting buy-in from decision makers - How simple reports can result in big impacts - Managing data overload

With the explosion of sophisticated technology in the twentieth century and beyond, many female mathematicians, statisticians and data scientists are making essential contributions to human endeavors, from bioinformatics to spaceflight. We all know women who have shattered stereotypes, pursued their passions, and persisted even when things got tough. In this talk, I’ll share some of their stories and my own journey from college statistics professor to host of the PBS miniseries, “NOVA Wonders”. By bringing public awareness to the data-driven work we do, we can inspire the next generation and increase our Power in Numbers.

When doing any analysis, whether it be financial, sales, workforce, or production, you inevitably need to make decisions on what factors are influencing your business. Many times that becomes an intuitive guessing game. What if you could use visual elements grounded in statistics and data science? You can, by employing the power of Dataiku and Tableau together to identify, predict, and act. In this session, we will demonstrate how Dataiku helps identify the drivers of key metrics in your key performance indicators (KPIs). We will then take our analysis further by isolating, predicting new data, and folding the values back into Tableau and our analysis.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

Want to hit the ground running with advanced data analytics? No sweat! In this session, you’ll learn how to use an ELT approach to maximize your data integration performance; extracting data from multiple source systems, loading it into your data warehouse (at speed!) and conducting complex transformations directly on the data warehouse itself, before pushing the output to Tableau for visualization. We’ll be using data collected from the Strava API, supplemented with additional public data sets for deeper analysis of logged activities. You’ll see how to use Matillion ETL to load and transform this data on Snowflake, before highlighting some best-practices in Tableau, to generate the visual insights your business needs.

Did you know that Tableau has APIs? Did you know that these APIs can help automate all kinds of tasks that you might be doing manually? Join us to learn about some of these APIs (REST, Extract, TSM) and how they can help you save time and more efficiently manage your Tableau deployment.

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

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.

Are you a newbie in the world of Tableau Server management? Kick-start your admin skills with this stellar course. What we’ll cover: adding users, organizing content, setting permissions, and leveraging Tableau Data Server. What this course won’t cover: a deep-dive into authentication or APIs. Please come with a basic understanding of the Tableau workflow and some familiarity with the Tableau Server interface.

Already deployed Server on Linux? On the fence, but curious to know more? This meetup was assembled with you in mind. Come pose your questions to the Dev team that brought you Server on Linux, and meet others using Linux to learn or share your Linux Server journey.

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

Hiring great Tableau developers is one way to get results! What if you could motivate people to learn, keep them engaged, improve culture and coach them to build their skills?!

Motivating Science + Game Design = Making Magic Happen! 

Join this session to takeaway your own gamification program: The Tableau Quest.  See how organisations are using this learning framework, enabling people to build best in class viz capabilities.  Learn how to level up! Layering training, challenges and certification with tips and tricks to motivate, collaborate, and most importantly - have fun!

You’ve spent weeks foraging for, shaping, and analyzing the perfect data set and you’ve crafted your dashboards with care. What could possibly go wrong? Have you made unconscious design decisions that will turn off your audience before you even get started? What message is your audience hearing that you didn’t plan to send? This session will introduce you to three areas where your design choices might be telling your audience a different story than you’d planned.

Your organization is moving towards a model of self-service and that's awesome! But in your effort to give your team access to all the data they could possibly want, things have gotten... complicated. Learn some new tips and tricks on how to build in instructions and tutorials into your complex workbooks to help your organization teach themselves to have conversations with their data.

There is a constant need for viewers of Tableau visualizations to always have the latest information in front of them. This session covers real-word use cases, from updating a procurement database, to knowing the location of your commuter train, and explores how to complete the analysis lifecycle by keeping underlying data sources up to date. We will demonstrate how the data behind Tableau visualizations, using Dashboard Extensions and TabPy, can be refreshed automatically or be updated by viewers of the visualization.

The State of Ohio’s enterprise Tableau deployment supports agencies and programs across the state, including: connections to the state’s data warehouse, data lake and analytics environment, and data sources. Our Tableau deployment is part of a platform design that is flexible and scalable, will function at an enterprise level, yet still meet the needs of individual agencies and projects. Come learn how the State of Ohio data analytics program seeks to address three major challenges common in large enterprises: - Data silos - Aligning in-house and market-leading expertise - Keeping up with a rapidly changing technology landscape

Unlike traditional printed reports, the Tableau Foundation's annual report is hosted in Tableau Public, which allows anyone to interact with the data and ask follow-up questions. The data even updates automatically every week—unheard of in the non-profit community! Join Tableau Foundation's Director Neal Myrick and Sr. Program Manager, Jason Suchumacher, as they explore how they built their annual report in Tableau. You’ll learn strategies for how organizations can move beyond the traditional annual report. Whether you're a non-profit, corporation, or foundation, you’ll walk away with new ideas and approaches for how your organization can share its latest information and cut the time and costs of producing a traditional printed piece.

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

Do you want to create more engaging dashboards? Do you want your users to be moved by the data? Do you want people to remember key facts and information? Do you want to hear the tragic tale of a turkey vulture named Morongo? Then you need to know how to tell tales with data. When people think of data stories they tend to think of multiples vizzes embedded in a long webpage, but any dashboard can be improved using storytelling techniques. You'll learn, amongst other things: - Structuring stories - Identifying plots and characters in your data _ Applying the narrative arc - Adding drama with title and layout -Turning a dashboard into a story with story points

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.