Sessions

The perfect place for some geographic data is in the background—as a layer in a custom Mapbox map. Come prepared to talk about your data, and to witness a demo ranging from the simple to the most complex cases.

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.

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!

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.

Data is transformative, but it is also in inconsistent structures, in functional silos, and in incongruent models. As data sources and need for fast insights grow exponentially, its more crucial than ever to build a powerful data analytics solutions. Join us to find out how Microsoft Azure and Tableau come together to bridge the gap between data and users, by bringing massive amounts of diverse data into one definitive, trusted source for analytics and reporting that is accessible across an organization. You will learn how you can build end-to-end self-service analytics solution for all your data at any scale, with a fast, flexible and secure clod platform.

Are you interested in your dashboards and vizzes providing even more insight through NLG? Come to this special networking opportunity to discuss the power of narratives and stories built right into your Tableau visualizations!

We’re thrilled to highlight best-selling author, Adam Grant, as our featured keynote speaker. The youngest tenured professor at the Wharton School, Adam’s new book Originals shows how new ideas can change the world—perfect for a conference full of data-driven truth-seekers.

If you’re responsible for creating dashboards for people on the go -whether they’re out in the field or around the office - this session is for you. We’ll give you an overview of use cases, tons of examples and even a few demos. You’ll learn best practices for designing mobile content your users will love and everything you need to build a culture of analytics around mobile.

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

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.

Consider this a quick-start program designed for firms that want to provide a more structured educational framework for end-users to learn the critical skills necessary to see and understand their data (with little administrative burden). The program is designed to be customizable by role with plug-and-play modules. Firms will be able to immediately begin capturing valuable data about their end-users’ abilities and begin building a self-service community by connecting users with peers at the same level and with Tableau champions.

As the health care system undergoes significant change, the need for simplifying pharmacy data and finding actionable insights has never been greater.  Health systems need to quickly identify ways to reduce costs and improve revenue. 

Given the volume of data, our summary dashboards are essential to quickly identifying opportunities and then allow a user-determined path to more detailed data.  Integrating data from many sources allows health systems to identify high cost diagnoses, compare prescribers and identify drugs with sub-optimal reimbursement.  

While this approach produced the best user experience, it presented technical challenges to implement. We will share our lessons learned and challenges for implementing this approach such as using the JavaScript API navigating between levels of detailed data, maximizing performance and development efficiency.

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.

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.

Tableau maps have come a long way since their inception. While the basic creation of maps has remained simple and intuitive, the sum of what can be achieved has grown rapidly. The best way to understand where a feature can go is to fully understand how it has developed. During this session, we'll take Tableau maps right back to the beginning, explore default and custom background maps, deep integration of Mapbox, bring custom spatial data into workbooks, and finally see how Tableau can form part of a larger mapping service stack. Interested in fully understanding this powerful Tableau feature? This session is for you!

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.

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!

Learn what joins look like in Tableau Prep. Here we will show you how to create joins, but more importantly, how to understand what your join has done. Even if you’re already a left-semi-anti-join expert, you’ll probably learn something about joining with Tableau Prep.

Before the analysis of data even starts, reports show that 80% of your time is spent gathering, cleaning and preparing data. Why? Because data comes in a variety of files and sources, sizes, structures, and levels of quality. Wouldn’t you rather flip that statistic and spend your time performing the analysis and building great visual analytics and dashboards? If so, let us show you how we “mind the gap” and demonstrate how anyone can use Tableau Prep to reshape and refine data into usable data sets, allowing for analysis. During the session, we will reference common challenges our customers have when it comes to using data.

Imagine that those fancy visual analytics map tricks you fire up your GIS for could suddenly be done right in your favorite data analysis tool, Tableau. In this session Sarah and Konstantin, holding PhDs in geography and spatial science, and licenses to make analytically powerful maps in Tableau, will give you a whirlwind tour of advanced spatial and visual analytical tasks. Learn about point density maps, alternative map projections, great circle routes, directed arrows, and more. All of these will be done with Tableau directly or using our API ecosystem, and free, open-source software to complement Tableau.

You know the feeling. You’re in a meeting and the slides are terrible. It’s the charts! They’re too complicated or virtually unreadable. Don’t be that person. To inform, persuade, and inspire data-driven conversations, your charts must send a message effectively. Andy Cotgreave has attended thousands of meetings and seen all the mistakes. (He’s even made some himself.) Here, he’ll share his tips for making successful big-screen charts. He’ll cover several areas: types of charts for presentations, chart design for big screens, and the physical aspect of presenting charts. After this session, your presentations will make people lean in, not lean out.

Tableau makes exploring your data easy, but what do you do when that data is locked away behind a web service? Is copying or exporting all your data the only hope? Want to connect to web data sources in Tableau and explore them like any other data source? This session discusses Tableau Web Data Connectors and their ability to unlock new sources and easily bring your data into Tableau from both internal and external web services. Together we will write a simple connector then walk through the steps to build, debug, and share the final connector.

Are you fumbling around with FIXED calculations, hoping to gain some ground?  Using an NFL Football Plays dataset, this session will sweep through the syntax, prefixes, and practical use cases of LOD expressions to solve complex problems.  Gain tips and tricks to learn how to run all of the key plays needed to be an LOD MVP.

Most companies use two types of data together; one that does not update much, but another that is only valuable when the data is the most updated. In the trading industry, it is the same, but with enormous amounts of data updating in one millisecond. We would like to introduce how TradingScreen solves these challenges and provides better dashboard 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.

Are you struggling to keep up with customers’ appetite for more and more data? Is it a struggle to keep your infrastructure up-to-date with the latest and greatest features? Come listen to Tableau’s story of how we're rewriting our data menu by embracing the cloud using Tableau Online and Snowflake data warehouse. We'll share our vision of how to enable a healthy data diet for everyone.

Crete Carrier Corporation is a national trucking company. After going to Tableau Conference last year, we realized that we have untapped potential to use geodata to improve our workflow. With Tableau beginning to introduce Microsoft SQL Spatial Data into the product lineup, there was no better time to start working on this. In this session we will walk you through our journey of spatial data implementation and share specific use cases. We'll discuss identifying available geodata, how to store that data in MSSQL for use in Tableau, and how to run various spatial queries to display in Tableau.

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.

Alberta Health Services (AHS) is the largest integrated healthcare system in Canada. This presentation will showcase the use of visual analytics to measure financial, operational, staffing, risk, project performance and employee satisfaction in the AHS IT department with 2000+ employees and $ 500 M in annual spend. Key solutions developed will be presented with lessons learned while creating a team, ingesting data from 90+ systems, and delivering 50+ analytics solutions in 9 months.

In 2017, there were 687 deaths related to accidental opioid overdose in Alberta. This presentation will also articulate how AHS is deploying visual analytics for crafting and disseminating actionable surveillance information to various stakeholders and partners, to enable a coordinated response to the opioid crisis in Alberta with measurable impact.

With an organization of over 100 projects and an annual $2 billion budget, the Federal Aviation Administration’s (FAA) Program Management Organization could not afford to be siloed in its approach towards making decisions. Integrated dashboards have brought together the financial, technical, and human resource community to rethink its approach towards evaluating investments, project planning, and implementing programs. Tableau has shifted the conversation from one project to a portfolio view and isolated cases to systemic issues. Tableau Server has enabled these conversations to occur at all levels throughout the organization. Access has expanded from a few to the entire workforce (e.g. headquarters and field employees). It’s served as a resource for responding to time sensitive requests from the FAA management team and external stakeholders (e.g. Congress).

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.

This talk describes how evolution has equipped every person with the essential skills for seeing and understanding data. The core Zen is a cycle of visual analysis that helps individuals and organizations work more effectively with data. You will learn what psychologists, statisticians and others have learned about using the human visual system to work effectively with data, the fundamental principles for designing effective dashboards, and how to expand the use of visual analysis in your organization.

Join this session to get a peek into how Nest's centralized analytics function was conceived, structured, and scaled over the last 6 years. This session will touch on key learnings around technology, mindset, and approach -- all of which helped us "drive the business" in a rapidly expanding and evolving environment. Please come by in person, as this presentation will not be recorded!

Craving a viz that’s outside the box? Tableau’s SHOW ME feature is stellar—but sometimes something more specific is desired. Join this session and explore the multitude of chart types possible in Tableau. Learn how to build a Chord Diagrams, Waterfall Charts, Comet Charts, Radial Bar Charts, Marimekkos, Shape Fills and Skyline charts (All Charts TBD). We’ll also discuss the pros and cons of each chart, where you can find a good blog post on each viz, and briefly explore additional popular charts that are possible with Tableau.

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.

This presentation covers how IMF is addressing big data challenges, building an analytics roadmap and using Tableau to aid research & policy recommendations. Key areas of discussion will include the IMF’s commitment to gender equality both in workplace and for macroeconomic growth globally as well as addressing SDGs strategically.

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

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)

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.

Would you believe that even strong Tableau users can learn something new by teaching Tableau to kids? And have a ton of fun in the process! Join me in this session to start brainstorming your own ideas about how to inspire kids to learn Tableau and become Data Rockstars. When my 9-year-old daughter Maggie brought home an assignment about data and visualizations, I showed her my work on Tableau Public. She said it looked like fun and wanted to build a dashboard of her own. That led to the amazing experience of teaching her how to use Tableau to build her first dashboard which was featured by Tableau as part of the #datakids blog series. Her teachers then asked me to present multiple sessions on data and Tableau to their classes. This has been an amazing experience and sometimes I feel like I have learned more than they have.

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.

In the world of marketing, big data is BIG! From interacting with brands on social media to the direct mail you toss out each week, marketers collect tons of data. But if you think visualizing and analyzing your marketing data is hard, imagine having to deliver insights to hundreds of clients. Learn how Merkle, an international marketing agency, overcame this challenge by combining the power of Tableau with big data in the cloud. We will walk through how we automate data integration in the Google Cloud Platform, visualize marketing event streams, and enable advanced analytics and attribution in Tableau.

Have you ever felt that you are not getting the full potential out of sets? Join this session to learn more about how sets can be used to answer powerful analytics questions and discuss their various strengths and limitations. Expect to explore many ways sets are used to support deep analysis in Tableau.

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.

Cloudera uses Tableau to enable our marketing team to provide relevant advertising to the right accounts at exactly the right time. We enable our sales team to predict a prospect’s next move—before the prospect even knew they what they wanted. Always-on advertising, actionable insights for sales, historical trending, and machine learning are all part of Cloudera's secret sauce. Join us to learn more!

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

In this presentation we'll go through the steps required to build an advanced Web Data Connector. To support the presentation, a repository has been created with well detailed and profusely documented code so that you can understand what it takes to create a maintainable, reliable and production quality WDC. The code has a direct link to the official documentation so you can make this connection and learn.

Level of Detail (LOD) is an important concept in Tableau, but what does it really mean? This talk will explore what LOD means in real-world terms, explore how LOD manifests in Tableau and understand how it affects the questions you can answer with your data.

Learn from the personal experience of a people insights and analytics manager to discover how she enables easy user access to human capital metrics at AbbVie. The solutions implemented have led their team to a paradigm shift for business users—from depending on spreadsheets and analysts to provide data, to self-service through Tableau Server.

In this session:
• Learn about the prior state of HR analytics: security challenges, data access, manual calculations, and more.
• Learn the steps AbbVie’s people insights team took to: allow dashboard/enterprise access through Tableau Server, create a better visual experience to understand the metrics, allow drill down, tie up security challenges and create a single source of truth for their entire user base.
• You’ll see AbbVie’s people insights dashboard and a preview of the process that got it built and in front of the right users.

Learn how you can use Python in Tableau! We probably cannot teach you how to code in two hours, but we can show you how to use Python in Tableau to create amazing visualizations that would otherwise not be possible. We will show you how to install TabPy, how you can get Tableau Desktop and Server talking with a Python environment, and most importantly, how you can put Python code directly into your Tableau calculations.