Sessions

Kaiser Permanente generates vast data assets across clinical care, healthcare delivery operations, insurance, and more. This session covers two journeys with self-service visual analytics within KP: medical imaging and kidney disease care. Both teams use Tableau Server to empower hundreds of clinical and operational users across Southern California to quickly answer ad hoc questions, regularly monitor performance, and proactively manage panels of high-risk patients. We will demonstrate both traditional BI and advanced analytics solutions, ranging from descriptive reporting to predictive modeling.

Attend this session to learn about:

• Transitioning from manual spreadsheet-based reporting to self-service dashboards and server subscriptions
• The application of iterative design methodology and input from end-users to maximize adoption
• Examples of in-production dashboards used by KP providers, including clinical and operational impacts of these tools

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.

State planners say that 2,000 square miles of Louisiana may be lost in the next 50 years due to sinking land and rising sea levels. Maps team members Jim Walseth and Ashwin Kumar will demonstrate how to use recently added and advanced map features in Tableau to reveal the threats in detail. Note: This session was Inspired by the New York Times/Times-Picayune collaboration "The Drowning Coast".

Apply a number of data level security approaches using Tableau Desktop, including data level suppression and masking. This session will discuss a number of best practices, including a hybrid use of Live Connection and Extracts, and data suppression techniques using calculated fields etc to ensure data is dynamically hidden, or masked as necessary for personally identifiable information.

Tableau has allowed the Minnesota Department of Human Services (DHS) to drive the power of data beyond our own organizational boundaries. Learn how DHS has successfully leveraged Tableau to improve client service delivery, policy development and client outcomes. We will highlight how Tableau Desktop has helped us better understand our clients, and how Tableau Server expanded the impact more broadly. We will share examples of dashboards that have created change within our organization, testimonies of the impact on the service delivery and details of how we leverage larger data and technologies such as Teradata and Hadoop to increase our impact.

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.

Have you enjoyed some of our IT and server administration track sessions? Did you have that one question (or three) that you meant to ask but never quite got around to it? Or did you miss a few and have loads of questions? Well then, this meetup is for you! Join the IT track speakers for an open conversation with questions, feedback, and other fun things.

How do you keep talent coming in the door fast enough when you are experiencing hyper growth? How do you maintain a qualified and diverse workforce, while filling roles to meet the business needs? How do you ensure you are using interviewers time efficiently? Hear from the Heather Torres, Head of People Analytics at Lyft, on how to shift the company from manual tracking to a custom backend solution for delivering key metrics on the organization performance.

As the demand for new dashboards grew exponentially, The Hartford’s Small Commercial Business Intelligence and Analytics Team identified a need for a standardized design that provides users with a uniform and cohesive suite of reporting tools. Investing in the development of a dashboard framework reduces new dashboard turnaround time while incorporating: • Consistent colors and design • Visual best practices • Corporate branding • Flexibility for varying subject areas Regardless of your industry or level of Tableau experience, you’ll leave this session with a heightened appreciation for the impact that branding and thoughtful design can have on the user experience. You will also be equipped with tips and tools to create your own dashboard framework.

After the acquisition of the Hyper database technology, we shipped Tableau 10.5 with our brand-new Hyper data engine. This deep-dive talk sheds a light on Hyper's design philosophy and highlights the context in which the Hyper project was started. We use real-world analogies to illustrate how Hyper's core technology works and how it differentiates itself from other data engines and database systems. This session is not directly applicable to your daily work with Tableau, but lifts the curtain on one of our core technologies and provides food for thought on how the Hyper technology enables current and future Tableau customer scenarios.

The Snowflake platform enabled Logitech’s cloud journey with minimal impact on business operations. The platform acts as a big data fabric layer, and sources data for all of Logitech’s analytics initiatives from descriptive to prescriptive to predictive analytics, including NLP processing engines. Learn how Logitech:
* Built a hybrid data fabric to integrate and deliver information across on-premises and cloud seamlessly.
* Empowered business users with a symbiotic environment for rapid innovation with guardrails.
* Reduced TCO, such as infrastructure and operational expenses, while reaching exceptional service levels and ability to support a wide variety of use cases.
* Enabled Tableau platform to be real-time with minimal data extracts, and empowered business for advanced analytics.

Come check out the all-new version of Tableau Mobile. In this session, we’ll take a tour of the redesigned app and show you how we’ve made it easier and faster to access your data on the go. We’ll also take you behind the scenes to see how we used Tableau and customer feedback to drive priorities and inform product design.

In a world of digital disruption, staying ahead of competition has never been more paramount to the success of an organization. That's why at Mars, exciting technological initiatives have been implemented to derive deep insights from data through analytics. Using a modern business intelligence and analytics approach, Mars moved forward with the concept of self-service analytics using Tableau in the Microsoft Azure Cloud as the preferred tool. In this session, attendees will learn how our self-service analytics approach empowered our associates with governed data, an easy-to-use tool, and training in order to develop an active community, able to unlock value from their data themselves.

VizQL, the language at the heart of Tableau, ties together UI, queries, and a powerful mental model of data visualization. It allows users to build insightful vizzes and gives tools access to information for automated reasoning about the results. But that's just one example of languages that can allow for rich user input, optimizations, natural language interaction, and machine learning tools.

Join this session to explore the scientific underpinnings of what enables people to understand data quickly and effectively (and how Tableau helps them get there). Gain the tips and tricks necessary for authoring content that your viewers will appreciate.

Are you an intrepid Tableau explorer? Do you want to go further than standard Tableau mapping can take you? Push the boundaries of Tableau’s mapping capabilities with us as we dive into the intricacies of how Tableau handles geographic data, the limitations thereof, and how to manipulate data to overcome said limitations to create map masterpieces. We’ll put the rubber to the road with spatial joins, MapBox, path, distance and radial mapping, and more. Join us and witness the madness!

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

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

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.

Why sit alone during lunch when you could chow down with fellow data geeks supporting K-12 education? Join members of Tableau's education team at a reserved table in Data Village and connect with your peers.

With annual US Healthcare expenditures surpassing $3 trillion, the industry is challenged with providing high-quality care at the lowest possible price. The Memorial Hermann Healthcare System is facing this challenge head-on. Through eliminating waste and increasing quality, we are changing the way care is provided. Come see how Memorial Hermann is using Tableau with Cerner to improve quality and safety of care, enhance the patient experience, while reducing costs.

Tableau users run queries all the time, but what do they look like? How does one see and understand the theory and practice of Tableau’s federated query ecosystem? In this session, we will briefly review how Tableau forms query expressions based on user actions, how to view queries using the Tableau Log Viewer, and then examine queries from Tableau Desktop, Tableau Prep, and Hyper. Query visualizations will be rendered using Query Graphs, Tableau’s open source project for query visualization.

Join us for the Tableau administrators user group at TC18. This is an opportunity for you to connect with other Tableau administrators in the Tableau community. During this meeting, you'll have the chance to share best practices, connect with others, and learn new approaches to Tableau. We hope to see you there!

In this session, we’ll share our story of how Pinnacle Entertainment quickly deployed Tableau. After identifying a key, under-serviced department, we were able to deliver dashboards and vizzes with action-driven KPIs at their fingertips. Now, as our internal Tableau champions, this team shows off new releases and features to the very people they were once requesting data from. Slowly, they are pushing our Tableau Trojan Horse through the gates and into the rest of the company.

Remember arriving at a new airport trying to orient yourself and find your luggage? You likely appreciated the clear signs pointing you to the baggage claim. Now think about a user opening one of your dashboards trying to orient themselves and find clear answers. Is it as easy to find insights as it was to find your luggage? Most dashboards have well-designed charts but lack clear signage to help people discover more about their business. Join Sarah to learn ways to move from a fact-filled dashboard to a guided experience showing a clear path to insights and actions. She will share techniques ranging from a simple text box to something more complex like natural language generation.

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.

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!

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

Are you having a hard time getting executives to use your dashboards? Are you wondering why your interactive dashboards are not being utilized? Would you like to learn how to create dashboards that will give your executives the snapshot they need to manage their business? Come learn how to use Simple Text and Small Multiples efficiently in your dashboards. In this session, we will review lessons learned and best practices to create insightful and easy-to-read executive dashboards. You will learn: - How to approach executive dashboarding - How to use Simple Text effectively - How to reduce filters to maximize dashboard impact

In the land of jazz, we go back to basics with Tableau Server. We look at its foundation and how it has evolved until 2018, with Linux availability. Like Louis Armstrong leading the way with his trumpet, Tableau Server is the pillar of the Tableau platform and a key part of the BI strategy for many companies. In this session, you will go away with advice on how to keep the bass drum of your analytics thumping along nicely. Learn how to plan your new server, its capacity and when to scale up. This is a session for jazz lovers, backgrounder investigators and Vizql tuners.

Do you and your organization have diverse, rapidly scaling (billions trending to trillions of rows!) longitudinal, data sets that need to be unified so that your ideas can be tested and for the most pressing, non-routine business questions to be answered almost as soon as you ask them? Are you already utilizing Tableau’s “gold standard” visual analytics, but get bogged down behind the scenes with data integration and prep, that only gets worse the more data scale and sources you have?

At 1010data, we offer a Best-In-Class, self-service, “spreadsheet style”, iterative data analytics cloud solution delivered at scale that fits seamlessly into any pre-existing modern technology ecosystem. Our products and solutions, built on our Trillion Row SpreadsheetTM analytics engine, are easy to use and learn whether you're a data scientist, business analysts, delivering accurate and detailed intelligence for executive decision making, and enabling robust and secure data monetization opportunities across your ecosystem.

We believe as competitive landscapes only get more complex with every day, companies will require an integrated blend of connected, scalable, and self-service technologies and data to win. You are already leveraging Tableau's best-in-class data visualization. Integrating 1010data with your Tableau capabilities brings the best of both worlds of being able to rapidly and easily analyze and visualize all your data at massive scale!

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.

Get an inside look at how Tableau runs their technical sales organization of over 300 people using Tableau products. A key to the sales efforts of any technology company is the technical subject matter experts that help a customer find the best solution to meet their needs. In software, this position is often referred to as pre-sales. At Tableau, we call this group customer consulting. Tracy Fagan, Tableau's VP of Customer Consulting, and his team, will share our strategy for how we use data to measure the health of our business and our products to stay on top of what matters every day. You will walk away from this session with new ideas on how to manage your team.

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.

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.

Tableau empowers global users to quickly and effectively share data regardless of location, regional settings, or the language and locale format of their data. Join this session and be empowered to share data globally.

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.

The modern office of finance is using Tableau to become more efficient and improve the support they provide their businesses. Join us for a special networking opportunity to learn from others who have seen the power of Tableau first hand. This gathering provides a casual environment to connect with people with a shared interest and encourage inspired conversation. Topics will be selected by the audience with guidance from leaders in Tableau's finance department.

Have you heard about the Extensions API, but want to see it in action? Do you want your dashboard to stand out amongst a crowd? Need to directly connect your insights to action, in the same view? This session will show you how to do exactly that. Tableau Zen Masters Chris DeMartini and Tamas Foldi will provide an action-packed demonstration of several Tableau extensions; enabling advanced visualization techniques and capabilities like Write Back. Each extension will be demonstrated live, with a quick overview of the build process. Attendees will gain a better understanding of how to leverage the Extensions API within their own environments. Take this opportunity to be the one who brings new capabilities to back to your team.

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.

In this session, you will learn how to analyze metrics over different periods of time using advanced table and date calculations (e.g. for year to date vs. previous year to date comparison). You will get to know best practices for visualizing KPI's and actual versus target analysis, and how to combine these visualizations into a well-structured scorecard.

Today there is way too much data to manually analyze and a data scientist shortage. Stop waiting for data scientists and learn how you can accelerate insight to action with no-code DataRobot automated machine learning. If you want to deliver proactive insights that optimize bottom line results, learn how combining Tableau with DataRobot can help you focus on what matters most, find hidden patterns, and easily apply AI to solve complex problems smarter and faster than ever before. In this workshop, Scot Barton, Head of Business Insurance R&D at Farmers Insurance and former Tableau Zen Master, Jen Underwood, will introduce automated machine learning and teach you how to get started using DataRobot with Tableau. They will cover when to use machine learning, how to build automated machine learning models, and how to best visualize and explain predictions with beautiful, brilliant Tableau dashboards. Workshop participants will: Learn common business use cases for “intelligent” dashboards Understand how to get started using DataRobot automated machine learning Explore the new DataRobot extension and other integration options Build an intelligent dashboard "hands-on" using Tableau Desktop

Join this session for an in-depth analysis of best practices for content structuring, global content strategy, stale content management, and catering to internal vs. external audiences in Tableau’s 18.3 release. We’ll also explore how to configure permissions to best roll-out your content strategy.

Join us for a special networking opportunity to engage with fellow data geeks who teach Tableau in the classroom. This gathering provides a casual environment to connect with others supporting Tableau education and encourage inspired conversation.

There are over 200 Not for Profit Organizations & Associations attending Tableau Conference this year. Join us for an opportunity to engage with fellow enthusiasts in the association world, share the impact your organizations have within your communities, and how data has played a part. Connect with industry colleagues to maximize your TC knowledge share and networking.

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.

In one of the top-rated sessions for TC17 and TC16, Tableau Zen Masters Andy Kriebel and Jeffrey Shaffer raced the clock and counted Tableau tips. Andy and Jeff are stepping it up for TC18 and will be attempting 50 charts in 50 minutes. Don't miss this fast-paced and fun session.

Let TD take you on the journey of Enterprise adoption – from the humble beginnings of just a few desktop developer licenses to over 1,500 developers across almost every analytical business and technology function. In just a few years we've developed a robust server infrastructure to support the growth and a highly effective Center of Excellence to drive adoption and engagement.

Whether you are on a business side looking to revolutionize the way you tell your data story or a technology team hoping to scale-up your infrastructure – this session is for you!

Are you an IT pro? Lean best practices for installing, registering, and licensing Tableau Desktop and Tableau Prep. Understand how and when to use the different authentication types.

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.