Sessions

The road to data bliss and success is a well-worn path thanks to tools like Tableau, but it's also a path filled with common pitfalls that are important to know about and avoid. This session will show you practical examples of what not to do, and how to know when someone else has.

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!

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.

In a single year, Lumentum has established data analytics in over 80% of their revenue generating portfolio. By using Tableau Online, Lumentum reached over 30% of key executives, engineers, and customers within the first year; and doubled their user base year over year. This session will explore the continuous journey of transforming a company by connecting people with their data to drive a zero defect culture. We will present our story, supported by examples of tools and our own developed Tableau dashboards.

You will learn about:
- How Tableau enabled us to consume variable data sources, and produce a single source of truth
- How we utilize Tableau Online and Tableau Prep to make manufacturing processes transparent
- Why treating data analytics as a team sport enabled rapid change
- How to engage users by hosting onsite Tableau Day
- Tools and Expansion as we drive a zero defect culture as data driven community

How can you make your organization psyched about Tableau? The key is to encourage and empower people at all levels of your business to embrace the power of Tableau. From battling organizational headwinds to acquiring your agents of change, we'll dive into different tips, tricks, and steps you can take to help flip the script and change a fundamental part of your organization.

Ensure your existing visualizations function beautifully and efficiently on mobile devices. Join us and learn specific strategies for translating complex, desktop-oriented dashboards to mobile. We’ll also address best practices for mobile design, and how to create new visualizations from scratch using Device Designer.

Experience why countless Tableau users rely on the Alteryx platform to discover, catalogue, prep, blend, and analyze data for output in Tableau and all other popular formats. Alteryx cuts mundane data preparation time to mere minutes…but that’s just the start! As a one-stop shop for analysis prior to visualizations, Alteryx empowers all data workers to easily tackle basic and sophisticated data prep scenarios, as well as apply advanced predictive and spatial analysis through repeatable workflows, which update whenever the data changes. Alteryx provides direct output to Tableau workbooks, allowing you to update .tde and .hyper files with the click of a button. Join this session for a free trial of Alteryx and forever alter the way you feel about analytics. Download the Alteryx Analytic Templates for Tableau prior to attending this session.

Not sure what tool to use when you have a question about Tableau Server? Do you want to monitor, troubleshoot and maintain your server, but not by using your laptop? Then you need to build a utility server—loaded up with all of the Tableau support tools setup as a toolbox to understand your Tableau platform server. We'll survey the available tools and explore what they do and when to use them, then walk through the steps to get them to play nice on a single system.

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

“My boss just dumped a bunch of dashboards in my lap and she says that half of them are broken. Help!” Has this happened to you? In this session, you'll see common issues that cause "broken" dashboards, along with a basic troubleshooting flowchart for fixing them. You'll learn how to locate formulas and filters that might be causing problems, and how to reverse-engineer a dashboard to make improvements, so it’s beautiful and useful for everyone who needs it.

Running Microsoft Dynamics, Salesforce, Sage and/or SAP B1?  Imagine integrating all this data in to one set of Tableau dashboards for use across your business at a fraction of the time and cost of Alteryx. Stop imagining. Take a tour of ZAP’s pre-built Tableau analytics and see how ZAP Data Hub automatically integrates ERP, CRM, HRM and more in to one 360-degree view of your business. Without a data scientist or Alteryx server license in sight…  ZAP Data Hub: For businesses that want insight fast, without the data wrangling headache.

Tableau helps people see and understand data. These seven words create a fundamental shift in an organization’s approach to data, and along with it, change. While organizations prepare technically for this, often times we forget to prepare our most important resource—people. In this session, we'll explore the reasons behind people’s natural resistance to change, and explore the mind-set of your workforce. We'll introduce methods for addressing this resistance through the use of champions, communities, success planning, and more! By the end of this session, you'll have a better understanding of how to bring your teams from resisting change to embracing change and the importance of investing not only in amazing technology but also in supporting your amazing people.

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

Does aggregating aggravate you? Are you pivoting in the wrong direction? Then come practice your ETL ABCs! In this technical introduction to Tableau Prep, we’ll connect to data, wrangle it, profile it, clean it, change it, join it, group it, aggregate it, pivot it, export it, and more. An introductory knowledge of Tableau Desktop will benefit you, but isn’t required.

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.

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.

Worthington Industries’ steel products are highly customized to end-user specifications. This high-mix, low-volume business makes price optimization using traditional methods difficult. Determining which products/markets to include or exclude from a given comparative analysis is often subjective and can lead to inconsistent recommendations. In our case, machine learning methods resulted in over-fitting due to insufficient training data. Tableau with R allows our analysts to test different market conditions using the power of predictive analytics (logistic regression) in a user-friendly environment. This tool represents the latest evolution in Worthington’s growing adoption of Tableau Server, deploying increasingly sophisticated features to our 50+ users.

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

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.

Come meet fellow marketers to discuss and learn about machine learning, data warehousing and privacy, customer segmentation, and more!

To get the brain waves flowing, we’ll give a short overview of how Google Cloud provides tools to perform marketing analytics. A live demo will take attendees through collecting site visit data from Google Analytics into BigQuery and then using SQL to create and execute a machine learning model that can predict a visitor’s lifetime value. Connecting this model to Tableau brings predicted lifetime value to marketers’ fingertips!

In this session, we will learn how to deploy connections between Tableau and its advanced analytics external services. We will then utilize these connections to develop powerful and flexible data science applications that make the power of advanced statistics and machine learning available to business users and dashboard consumers at all levels.

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.

In this session, IDPH is proud to share our path to success in delivering faster and better access to data. Attednees will learn how the Iowa Department of Public Health (IDPH) recovered from an end-of-life legacy platform and a data center on life support. Utilizing Tableau visualizations and shifting from on-site to cloud-based AWS storage, IDPH was able to adopt an enterprise-wide data consumption model. Historically poor or difficult data experiences were transformed by the innovative bite, snack, and meal concept and the flexible, robust Tableau visualizations all while being supported 24/7 through an AWS cloud service.

Join us for a special pre-TC18 networking opportunity to connect with fellow healthcare enthusiasts. We will share the latest in Tableau activities supporting the healthcare industry and gain insight into all of the healthcare-related activities happening at TC18. Be sure to join us again at the meetup for healthcare best practices later in the week.

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.

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.

Gartner defines a citizen data scientist as, “a person who creates or generates models that use advanced diagnostic analytics or predictive and prescriptive capabilities, but whose primary job function is outside the field of statistics and analytics.” Citizen data scientists can bridge the gap between mainstream self-service analytics by business users and the advanced analytics techniques of data scientists. They perform sophisticated analysis that would previously have required more expertise, enabling them to deliver advanced analytics without having the skills that characterize data scientists. This presentation is about how Tableau, Maestro and other third-party applications integrating with Tableau can support this emerging group of advanced data analysts which Gartner predicts will surpass data scientists in the amount of advanced analysis produced.

Does your organization live in Excel? Are your users more comfortable seeing raw numbers with six decimal places rather than a visual analysis? In this session, Corey and Yun Fei will share how they introduced visual analytics to Johnson & Johnson's finance organization to reduce time spent manually preparing presentation decks and enabled self-guided analysis during quarter closes and forecast updates. They will demo the visual best practices in their Executive Financial Package used by the FP&A Organization and show tips and tricks in the design that allows increased flexibility and customization without compromising global standardization.

Oh Canada, Tableau customers unite. This session brings together truly Canadian customer presentations representing many of the geographies and sectors across Canada. Tableau success stands tall coast-to-coast so a great opportunity to network with the Canadian customer contingent at TC18 NOLA.

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.

Today’s data teams are struggling with ever-increasing data volume from thousands of IOT and mobile devices all in real time. Your business can no longer wait days or weeks for the right data. Teams need to analyze and iterate within hours to stay competitive. But how do you capture data from so many devices in real time? How do you manage the infrastructure and rectify data errors? What about new data sources in the future? We’ll dive in on how to leverage the Alooma data platform to manage all your real-time data and perform advanced transformations and enrichments using real code, all on the fly.

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.

Whether you are new to survey data or have been working with it for years, there’s been amazing strides in how you can use Tableau to visualize survey data. In this session, you’ll explore how Tableau Prep helps people working with survey data. Not only will Prep allow you to get your data “just so”, but it will also deal with lots of thorny, real-world situations. Lacking confidence on how to show confidence? We’ll explore some great way to show margin of error. Got Likert scale data? We’ll look at some new, provocative, and remarkably useful ways visualize it. Also learn how to cut a question by any other question, and how to tackle a massive survey comparing lots of different institutions, products, or brands, resulting in thousands of columns.

This session is all about your geospatial questions. Members of the Maps Development team will be on-stage to answer anything you want to ask about working with maps, spatial data, or possible GIS workflows using Tableau. This session will give an overview of recent product updates and take a sneak peak at what is on the roadmap before opening the floor to you. Audience participation is required.

This session is all about maps and spatial data in Tableau. We'll answer some of the most frequently asked questions and then open it up AMA-style until we run out of time. Customer participation is required.

Are you moving to Tableau Online and wondering how to learn the best approaches and practices from those that have gone before you? Do you want to make the most out of your Tableau Online as a platform investment? If so, this session is for you.

The session will walk you through the best practices, techniques, and tools you can use to have an effective onboarding journey to Tableau Online, from early planning all the way to fostering adoption. We will look at Tableau Online deployment planning, data management strategy, user onboarding, security, and governance. You will learn how the time you spend planning your deployment and onboarding processes will save your organization tons of effort later. We will also show you some new product features to help you engage your users from the start, including inviting users, creating initial content, and leveraging usage data to measure adoption. When you implement these paradigms, and use the tools suggested here, your users will be well on their way to a self-service data analytic culture.

At its best, Tableau makes new insights possible. How can we apply the best of Tableau to change the way students experience public education? What does it mean to make "every student visible" through Tableau? What if we could change the way we see our schools? Come learn about the powerful ways Equal Opportunity Schools uses Tableau to change the trajectory of students and, in the process, provide insights into the lived experiences of public schools—all while providing on-the-ground coaching and insights from real people. What could be better? Come be inspired and see the power of Tableau to change the way we see the challenge of creating equitable learning environments.

Join us as we explore how to get started on your first project—and hit it out of the park! We'll share what has worked for us as a small team of users. Learn how to engage stakeholders and boost adoption, as well as other best practices.

Students’ college preparedness and success are key performance indicators for any school district. However, measuring these outcomes is usually limited to graduation rates or performance on college entrance exams. In this session, the Cherry Creek School District will share visualization tools that track graduates beyond high school as they travel on the road to and through college. Blending local data with data from the National Student Clearinghouse and the USDOE’s College Scorecard database, we'll demonstrate how we incorporate geographical maps with various measures of college enrollment, including where students attend college, the types of colleges they attend, and the selectivity of various institutions. Visualizations will be shared that depict degrees earned and comparison percentages of high school graduation versus college enrollment.

Want to integrate R into your workflow, both before and during your analysis in Tableau Desktop? Join us as we show you how the R integration feature works and how to use it to make calls directly to R, to open up the rich statistical features of R to Tableau. To be able to follow along you should be fairly acquainted with using Tableau (especially LODs and Table Calculations) and should also know R – since unfortunately, we won’t have enough time to teach you either of these during this session.

Two years ago, Swinburne University embarked on a massive data and visualization-led journey of change. What was delivered empowered end users, created trust in data and reporting and shifted the very culture of the university. The implementation of the Swinburne-branded Tableau platform, DAPPER, transformed the use of data at Swinburne. The business analytics team combined technical change utilizing Tableau and business change to create a shift in perception of both the data team and strategic decision making at work. DAPPER and the change that was delivered aligns beautifully with the new Tableau (enterprise) licensing model, echoing the access and enablement of the same groups within business settings. Swinburne’s business analytics team has created a proven methodology around the new way of working, extending the traditional data and analytics service offerings to empower the business.

Why sit alone during lunch when you could chow down with fellow data pride peeps? Come out and join members of Tableau’s LGBTQ+ community at an open and inclusive table. Connect with those like you who are interested in diversity and inclusion issues and meet other proud data rock stars. Look for the rainbow–you can’t miss it.

Have you ever been asked: - to build a pie chart with 100 slices? - to build sparklines that never decrease because partial months are perceived as tanking? - to label every point on a chart? - to replicate an Excel spreadsheet? A day in the life of an analyst is not easy. We often wear multiple hats and become translators for different parts of the business who often don’t understand data, processes, or even the business itself. In this hands-on session, Zen Masters, Pooja and Adam of TheDataDuo.com will walk through real-life business cases, including gathering requirements, building solutions on-the-fly, and delivering artifacts to our stakeholders. You will learn about techniques employed in our environments and how to deal with stakeholders that have limited to zero data literacy.

This session will talk about JDBC connectors in Tableau which include Athena (first official one), Oracle, Presto and Generic JDBC (dev in progress). This session will also cover how to enable connecting through JDBC, explore what the customizable capabilities are that can be set to tweak performance, and learn what the pros and cons of VS ODBC are.

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.

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.

Looking to implement Tableau's analytics platform in your enterprise? Or are you currently managing Tableau Server on-premises and interested in making the leap to the cloud? This session will give an overview of the differences between Tableau Server and Tableau Online, and the factors to consider for making an informative decision. Discover all the features, from our fully managed SaaS service that empowers you to deploy Tableau at scale. Find out how to keep data fresh even if your data sources are still on-prem with Tableau Bridge. Learn how to provide a scalable analytics platform that is accessible yet secure from a member of Tableau’s own enterprise analytics team.

Learn how to create your custom administrative views. Our developers love to make your life easier. This is why you have pre-built administrative views to monitor your Tableau environment. But we give you even more! In this session, learn to further monitor your environment by plugging Tableau Desktop into Tableau Server PostgreSQL, and uncover advanced insights.

Come learn how to create and publish dashboards that are accessible to users with a wide variety of disabilities. We’ll learn about the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines and how to apply them in Tableau, so that your dashboards meet Section 508 and EN 301 549 requirements.

Digital marketers collect astronomical amounts of client data. The challenge is turning that data into a performance story—one that’s comprehensive but still easy to understand and that can be mined for business insights. Elite SEM, a performance-driven digital agency, leverages Tableau to distill oceans of data into clear, actionable wisdom for Tommy Bahama, Hugo Boss, San Antonio Spurs, Terminix, and other leading brands. In this session we’ll explain: - How we use Tableau to quickly communicate the lessons living inside massive datasets - How we streamlined our visual analytics by creating a single source of truth for our entire data ecosystem - How we created a framework for efficiently producing both standard, template-based dashboards and custom reports - How we connect our team to client data

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.