Sessions

Learn best practices around how to achieve high availability with Tableau Server. We’ll cover advanced tips and tricks that ensure you get the most out of your Tableau Server licenses and some platform-specific technologies you can utilize when deploying to virtualized hardware or the cloud.

Did you know 422 people die every day from lung cancer, but survival rates are five times higher with early detection? Or that suicide is the second leading cause of death among young adults, but a friend’s support can intervene? You’ve been to sessions on how big data and Tableau can be used to increase profits. Attend this session to learn how they are used to make the world better.

For over 75 years, the Ad Council’s mission has been to stimulate action on significant public issues through communications programs. We partner with leading non-profit and government organizations on over 40 campaigns which together garner 1B in donated media annually. Hear how we measure our impact using:
- A proprietary database of results on KPIs
- Tableau dashboards to visualize performance
- Our marketing mix model built with Alteryx and Tableau to calculate ROI and optimize the media mix

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.

Did you join us at Monday's healthcare meetup? If not, don't worry. This meetup is focused on engaging with fellow healthcare enthusiasts and sharing Tableau best practices. This gathering provides a casual environment to connect with people with a shared interest in healthcare and encourage inspired conversation.

This breakout session will explain the queries generated for different user scenarios, from a simple to a complex viz. We will also cover how caching impacts the query generation, how nested calculations, LOD calcs and published scenarios impact queries and their performance. We will go over the different tools available to study the Tableau query performance: Tableau Log Viewer, Tableau performance recording, Tableau visualization of logs, and ART tracing that we have introduced. In the process, we will cover how to narrow down performance issues, root cause to a particular visualization or quick filter.

Hoping to scale Tableau more widely throughout your organization? A Tableau Center of Excellence may be the answer. In this session we will discuss the benefits of a Tableau COE as well as take a look at a proven step-by-step approach for planning, building, running, and improving a COE in your organization. Expect to comprehend the benefits of establishing a Tableau Center of Excellence, the people and steps involved, best practices, and insights from data-driven enterprises.

Are you struggling to bring about change in your organization? Is your team or company stuck in entrenched modes of behavior despite your awesome data visualizations? What now!? Even as “a data company,” Tableau itself has wrestled with the very human difficulty of doing what we want to do. In this session, a member of our development practices team will discuss change management and behavioral engineering techniques that will help equip you to drive powerful and humane change in your organization.

This is a story about MD Financial Management’s journey from a culture of static performance reporting to enterprise-wide adoption of a dynamic business intelligence ecosystem. We discuss three key aspects of our journey: the data and technology, the analysts, and the end-users. Starting with the challenges of building an open data environment, we describe how we progressed to a world where our financial advisors now have access to a wealth of data and reporting and use it to drive our business forward and increase productivity.

Financial services firm, Charles Schwab, provides a number of services to their investors and has an even greater number of data sources. Gessica and Branden will share a story of transformation through culture shift, supported by a robust Center of Excellence (COE). The presentation will show you how to enable better analysis through best practice evangelism, dashboard usability studies, and hosting entertaining events like the Schwab Iron Viz. You will also learn how regular software upgrades and partnering with Tableau enables self-service analytics on an galactic scale.

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.

This session will tell the visual analytics journey of how Morgan Stanley Wealth Management’s Tableau installation grew from a small group of 30 to an enterprise rollout of 30,000. We will take the attendees along a three-year journey as the team grew from Tableau in the hands of a few viz-starved consumers, to a full enterprise rollout. Along this journey, attendees will learn about the challenges and lessons learned while building a culture of analytics and growing our COE. They will also learn about the agile approach we deployed to jump to enterprise adoption. Oh, and see some incredible vizzes created along the way!

A common complaint regarding data analysis is simply getting access to the necessary data… What if the underlying metadata could be aggregated and made available to business users to increase efficiency, save money, improve data quality and most importantly derive actionable insights from the data analysis (rather than intuition alone)?!

Attendees will get a firsthand look at how Sony Pictures Entertainment is utilizing Tableau to aggregate disparate film metadata. This new tool assists operating divisions to make better data-driven decisions and enable collaboration to break down data silos quicker. Practical Tableau dashboard tips and tricks will also be shared.

Over the past three years, our team replaced a custom-coded business intelligence tool with Tableau Server as the global backbone of our client data visualization and analytics platform. In this session, we will share our journey from a few Tableau Desktop users, to a fully deployed and adopted client-facing technology solution. We will cover technical deployment, cloud configuration/architecture, adoption and usage, and data feed integration strategies. We will guide you through creating a branded secure web portal, to publishing visualizations created by different software tools through Tableau Server. Ultimately you will learn how implementing Tableau Server allowed us to put UX and UI decisions in the hands of the front-line business experts and eliminate technical coding as the bottleneck to continuous product improvement.

Why sit alone during lunch when you could chow down with your fellow IT professionals? Join Tableau's Michael Hetrick Tom Wasserman and Manish Agarwal, product marketing managers focused on supporting IT professionals like yourselves.

Ready for next level dashboard design? Join Tom Christian and Jenny Stancheva, “Viz of the Week” winning authors, as they share their views on how to create an engaging and impactful dashboard—from the ground up. You're bound to come away with valuable tips and tricks to bring into your own vizzes.

We're surrounded by statistics. Many sources use statistics in their message to add authority, conflate and confuse its audience. With updated content using examples from current media, this session aims to highlight common misuses of data, visualization and statistics and arm you against bias and improper conclusions, and inform you with such techniques should you wish to succumb to the dark side…

Now that the ways we relate to information are evolving more rapidly than we realize, it is time to change our minds about data. This talk is about how we can see this moment as an opportunity to jumpstart a new renaissance, where we can question the impersonality of a merely technical approach to data and bring more value to it.

Giorgia will share how her experiences in the world of data—spanning from business data visualization consulting with her firm to creating visual data art installations for MoMA—lead her to develop a new approach to working with information, a work philosophy she calls data humanism.

Her talk will show with concrete examples how we can use the tools of the designer to radically rethink the way we interact with data and imagine new visuals, tools and experiences that can reconnect it to what it ultimately stands for: our lives, ideas, and experiences.

At Jazz Pharmaceuticals we rolled out an innovative digital-sales-aid program (iPad apps with educational information for doctors) for our salesforce. However, we had little visibility into adoption, usage of materials and what our customers found useful. We partnered with ZS Associates to develop MIDAS—dashboards to gain better visibility into rep-customer interactions. Our goal was to convert vast data into insights for management/marketing, and encourage higher usage of these insights. Our result was a 300% increase in utilization in under one year, as well as the creation of a self-diagnosing tool for the sales team. Come learn about our next stop on our data journey, as well as our pains and gains throughout the transition.

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

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.

Science journalist and bestselling innovation author Shane Snow (Wired, GQ) takes you on an adventure in lateral thinking and human behavior that will change the way you think about people, collaboration, and the power of data.

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.

Companies around the world are transforming their businesses by moving to the cloud. Considering moving your Tableau or data platforms to the cloud? Contemplating a next-gen cloud-based data warehouse? Join us for a hands-on walkthrough of key cloud deployment data points. The session will cover Tableau Server topics like improved High Availability and Disaster Recovery options, dynamic provisioning, and elastic cluster configuration. Diving a bit deeper into data warehousing, we’ll cover the basics and investigate topics like data localization, elastic computing, streaming, and multi-cloud solutions within data platforms like Snowflake, Azure, and AWS. Learn from InterWorks’ global consulting team as well as companies like Tableau who’ve made the switch to cloud. Take home key roadmap components and the top five most crucial steps you’ll need to know on your journey to the clouds.

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.

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.

Speech analytics has historically been limited to the contact center, but the customer interactions in your .wav and .mp4 files contain a plethora of customer experience insights for almost every department! From competitive analysis to understanding the common objections and obstacles in the customer journey, AI-powered speech analytics can deliver the true voice of the customer within your organization. In this session you’ll learn how to master the “art of the possible” by ingesting transcribed voice calls into your data lake, making them ready to be beautifully visualized in Tableau!

Learn how to connect to and integrate location driven datasets within Tableau to solve your business challenges.

Experience first-hand how easy it is to incorporate Pitney Bowes data into your analytics to:

• Layer industry-specific datasets on top of your organization's data for advanced insight
• Introduce new context to address complex business challenges
• Resolve data currency and consistency issues with ease
• Reveal hidden relationships between people, places and things
• Enhance native Tableau mapping and geospatial capabilities with additional location detail

Attend this workshop to elevate your analytics and address your company's needs.

The development of a new airplane requires strict attention to a vast array of business health baselines (e.g. schedule, Risk-Issue-Opportunity, finance) in order to deliver on a plan. These baselines and their underlying data exist within disparate architectures, making analysis hard to find and prescriptive program management decisions difficult to make. Using Tableau, Boeing's 777X Program Management Analytics Team has normalized, blended and presented these disparate data streams as a common digital thread, visualized on a series of Tableau dashboards deployed via mobile and server. This analytics platform is used daily by more than 2,000 users from engineers to vice presidents as they visualize program health data to make informed decisions and digitally transform program management for Boeing’s second century.

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.

Given today’s healthcare landscape, it’s more important than ever to have the latest data to make the best decisions. Lehigh Valley Health Network is leveraging the might of Tableau, the expertise of its enterprise analytics team, and the power of EPIC to deliver fast, clear, and concise analysis that helps provide better care, better cost, and improved outcomes for our patients. We will dive into how we used Tableau to identify and improve clinical care during pregnancies, staff appropriately for a new mother-baby unit, and just how we got Tableau to consume 48 million records—without sacrificing efficiency.

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.

Enterprise AI is a target state where every business process is AI-augmented and every employee is an AI beneficiary. But what's really behind the marketing hype? Lot's of data science and machine learning! And it's not all being done by people with "data scientist" in their signature. In this talk, Kurt Muehmel, VP Sales Engineering at Dataiku, will share learnings from the field, describing how analysts with different skill sets and companies of different sizes have begun this journey. Some are farther along than others, and by making the right decisions now and avoiding stumbling blocks, you can to supercharge your quest to this AI-fueled future.

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.

Have you ever had to rebuild the same ad-hoc reports for clients because they don’t have access to necessary datasets? What if there was a way to provide an extremely flexible, self-sufficient tool that would allow your clients to build their own visualizations and charts—while keeping your data security team happy? Welcome to Tableau Web Authoring! In this session you'll hear how two very separate teams within DISH successfully implemented Tableau Web Authoring tool in programs that allowed their colleagues and clients to help build reporting and make data-driven decisions on their own. In this presentation, we will share: - Use cases to consider when implementing a Tableau Web Authoring strategy - Best practices when building a training curriculum to help your end-users be successful

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

Tableau has been making a difference at American Family for nearly five years. Analysis of insurance areas such as sales, claims, operations, and customers are prevalent, but in this session, you’ll be taken beyond insurance at American Family. You’ll learn how we leverage Tableau in other areas like talent development, human resources, facilities management, and corporate responsibility. Functions like these historically offered basic reporting and few analytics experts on their teams. You’ll see how we've overcome these challenges using Tableau to measure, analyze, share, and improve the way business is done, making the organization, employees, environment, and community stronger.

Data catalogs help enable all data workers within an organization to discover and make use of data—regardless of where it’s stored. Come learn and share with others in a special networking opportunity on curating and managing your data strategy!

With important company data, it's often tempting to make a single dashboard that will show the data in the best possible way for everyone at the company. This is a trap. Different people need different things from the data, and have different design considerations. In this session, we'll walk through three typical audiences (Exec, middle management, and ICs) and how to make the data useful for each.

Currently uninspired by your dull-looking dashboard? Come put a visual pop into your day! This session ensures you’ll sharpen your formatting skills—no matter your current level of expertise. Learn what formatting tools are at your disposal, and various best practices for workbooks, dashboards, and worksheets. Over the course of the class, we’ll create a dashboard that encompasses the various formatting tools at your disposal within Tableau. By session's end, you will have a flashy dashboard that’s as efficient as it is eye-catching.

How do I use data preparation to analyze my data deeper? Different data shapes unlock new forms of analysis. In this session, you'll learn how different data shapes make new types of analysis simple and fun. Find process bottlenecks by reshaping your event logs. See how your data changes over time by combining data snapshots. You'll walk away from this course with a library of data shapes and how to use them in Tableau and Tableau Prep.

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!

Data and analytics are core to GoDaddy’s ability to meet the needs of its diverse global customer base of more than 17 million. Tableau Dashboards are used to analyze data for everything from improving products to optimizing sales and marketing campaigns. The sheer volume of data available, coupled with the complexity of GoDaddy's cloud + on-premise data architecture, and the diversity of GoDaddy employees leveraging data, makes it challenging to ensure that analysis is accurate and well governed.

Sharon Graves, BI tools evangelist and a member of the enterprise data team at GoDaddy, will show how GoDaddy leverages the Alation Data Catalog in conjunction with Tableau to guide analysis while fostering a self-service environment where everyone is encouraged to leverage data to make decisions.

Learn how data catalogs tame data complexity and ensure accurate analysis, including:

• Activating data governance rules through new capabilities like TrustCheck and endorsements which surfaces compliance recommendations directly in the workflow of Tableau users and power analysts
• Tagging & tracking sensitive PII data with catalog sets surfaced through a user-friendly search interface that points users to the most accurate & useful datasets
• Best practices for leveraging machine learning to create and maintain a business glossary, ensuring consistent metric definitions across data sources

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.

Have you ever expected one thing but something else happened? During the execution of a visualization, it’s important to understand the order of how things get done in Tableau. During this session, we will cover the order of when things happen—from data source filters, context filters and top N filters, to table calculations, trend lines and reference lines.

As one of the thought leaders in Expedia's cloud migration, the Expedia Global Payments BI group architected, designed, and built a complete cloud data mart solution from the ground-up using the AWS stack and Tableau Online. In this session, we will discuss our technical architecture at a high level, and dive deeper into our methodology for transforming transaction level detail into a self-service reporting solution.

A successful Tableau deployment involves more than creating pretty dashboards. Strong engagement at the executive level of your organization is critical and challenging the way that people think about data will be required. In this session you will learn about State Street’s journey from producing “reports” to leading highly-valued, quantitative and strategic analysis using Tableau. The speakers will outline their strategy for driving strong support from senior management and they will provide insight into how they have used Tableau to change behaviors and deliver measurable business value in an organization with over $33 trillion in assets under custody and administration.

VMware is one of the most innovative companies on the planet. We manage to stay ahead by understanding the needs of our customers and consistently exceeding their expectations. In customer advocacy, we are responsible for sharing customer insights throughout the organization. Tableau has allowed us to broadly disseminate these insights to make them part of every key decision. In this session, you will learn about leveraging Tableau to share insights from surveys, and also about incorporating behavioral data as a supplement to survey data for maximum impact. Best practices will be shared for NPS, Likert scales, weighting, filters, and stories—all with the goal of helping non-technical users identify insights that lead to improvements in the customer experience.

US Foods embarked on a journey to rationalize its BI landscape for consistency of insights for the executive team, and to create a common language for business measurement. Having tried a bottom-up approach, we shifted gears and set about deploying a top-down master dashboard in Tableau. This dashboard has become a nexus of information for the organization, and shows leading indicators of business performance. This ecosystem now serves the executive-level intelligence needs of this $20B+ revenue organization. In building it, the business moved the needle on how data is consumed from tabular data to interactive visualizations, starting a new journey that will allow more people to have the information they need to make the right decision at the right time.

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!

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.