Sessions

Cars.com revolutionized the attribution game when it released its award-winning Lot Insights dashboard, which uses location to show visitors on or near a dealer’s lot. Since then, we’ve focused on making the report even more valuable by showing dealerships what vehicles are being looked at on their lot, while also making the report faster and providing more data. This session will focus on: • Developing processes and partnerships to capture dealer lot polygon data and visitor location data • Using Python to generate a JSON file of dealership polygons to join with visitor data in a data extract • Building a performant geospatial dashboard that provides dealers detailed information about their visitors

What happens when you combine a passion of sports with a love of data and Tableau? You come up with some of the most creative and engaging visualizations around and a community initiative is born. That is the journey that Simon Beaumont, James Smith and Spencer Baucke embarked upon in January 2018 when we were blown away by the increasing quantity and quality of sports vizzes being published to Tableau Public.

All 3 of us are avid sports fans; albeit it across a range of sports, but more importantly all 3 of us share a love for Tableau. In January 2018 we created #SportsVizSunday, an initiative to showcase sports visualizations and to create a sports visualization community, built around creativity and sharing.

In this talk we will share our experience of how we created our community initiative;

- How 3 strangers came together with a simple idea, and now have not only become community leaders in sports visualization but are also close friends
- Using Data Dot World as a platform to share content and promote community discussion
- Utilizing the outstanding Tableau community to identify others with a shared passion and, on a weekly basis, showcase sports viz content via Twitter using the hashtag #SportsVizSunday
- Developing a monthly sporting visualization challenge that has resulted, to date, in over 50 Tableau Public creations from across the globe and has achieved in excess of 5 Tableau Public Viz of the Day and 1 Viz of the Week
- What our plans are for the future and how we will continue to support people to not only showcase their talent but also learn from others

Learn how to apply UX design principles to your dashboard creation process. Learn how to build dashboards that are more effective and appropriate for the audience they're intended for.

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.

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.

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.

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

Tableau faces the same security challenges you do—compliance, incident management, metric tracking, and resourcing. The information security team at Tableau is involved in supporting everything from GDPR compliance to responding to phishing attacks. Learn how we support our audit processes by using Tableau to track issues, monitor for compliance, and communicate with decision-makers. See how we manage accounts by wrangling answers out of multiple data sources. We've successfully tackled our security challenges with data. Let us help you do the same.

Attendees will learn about HDFC Bank and its journey from zero to 26,500 users in 3 years. The speaker will discuss the initial deployment to the Wholesale bank department, how HDFC’s monthly reporting cycle was compress to a daily dashboards, and discuss challenges encountered when rolling Tableau out to HDFC’s retail branches.

Running Tableau Server on AWS? Don't miss these tips on how to do it the DevOps™ way! Turn your automation and monitoring up to 11 with this session. We will look at practical examples of how to: - send SMS alerts when Tableau has a problem - architect Tableau Server VMs in the safest way (using jump hosts) - automate deployments of entire environments with cloudformation (including the tableau server install) - run scheduled commands on the server automatically with SSM commands to implement a robust DR strategy and free your inner server-less hipster (and make your admin life easier) with lambda functions

Verizon’s Analytics Center for Excellence (ACE) strives to augment customer experience using data science in operations with areas including digital, call center, TV content and field dispatches.

We’ll explore:
• Implementation: With 1,500+ dashboards garnering 125,000+ views, ACE has leveraged Tableau to enable agile and flexible self-service analytics truly at scale.
• Integration: Best practices with respect to ingesting billions of rows from industry-leading big data warehouses including Hadoop, Teradata and Oracle.
• Interactivity: Expanding capabilities of Tableau via interactive tools and techniques including satellite and street view geo-spatial mapping and text analysis using R.

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.

Whether you’re new to Tableau Online or a Desktop user, this hands-on session ensures you leave with a fully established Tableau Online trial site (complete with Tableau's SaaS solution). Join us for a deep-dive into how to analyze your data, govern your info, add users, and share insights—all from the comfort of the cloud.

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.

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

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

Want to see how Tableau can help your Sales and Marketing departments with Account-Based Marketing (ABM)? We know you do! Join your fellow Tableau enthusiasts along with experts from LinkedIn to share best practices and learn new tricks that can help drive your organization’s bottom line. In this Meetup we will have conversations on different aspects of ABM including measuring success, getting alignment through data, processes and planning, tools and technology, as well as ABM 101 for newbies.

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.

Advanced analytics is a journey that involves understanding the past, predicting the future and finding the best course of action to attain goals. Be it via built-in visualizations, forecasting and clustering, or custom machine learning models built in R, Python or Matlab, Tableau can help every step of the way. This session reviews broad types of advanced analytics possible with Tableau with example use cases. We’ll explore what’s possible, when and how to use specific features and contexts that they are applicable to.

Calling all problem solvers and workout junkies! Join us as we tackle one of the most revered community initiatives LIVE: #WorkoutWednesday! What is #WorkoutWednesday you ask? The idea is simple: participants challenge themselves to rebuild a dashboard from scratch using predefined requirements and a fully built dashboard as inspiration. In this interactive session, you’ll flex your brain and grow your Tableau skills as you work through the weekly challenge. Plus, you’ll get to see the dashboards recreated in real time by coaches Luke, Rody, and Ann. The best part? You don’t have to wait for Tableau Conference to start getting active. Join us weekly for the challenge at www.workout-wednesday.com and look for our special TC edition to be posted well in advance.

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.

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.

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.

Call or fold? Are you concerned about hardware scalability for your Tableau Server? Curious about the optimal configuration for your environment? Learn to predict the outcome of your decisions (before making moves in your Tableau Server production environment) via Tabjolt and Logshark. Gain hands-on experience with Tabjolt, like pushing heavy workloads to Tableau Server, and analyzing how the server responds. Then take Tabjolt to your own deployment with knowledge of installation, how and when to use it, test scenario designs, and how to interpret results.

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.

You’ve enjoyed two years of speed tipping—courtesy of Zen Master Hall of Fame member Andy Kriebel and Zen Master Jeffrey Shaffer. Now join this exciting session and watch the torch get passed on to two new community members. Community all-star Lorna Eden and Zen Master Ann Jackson will take the stage and engage in an all new round of speed tipping. Andy and Jeffrey will be there to keep score and ensure a fair fight. Can the new challengers reach 100 tips?

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

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

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.

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.

In this session, Netflix will share how Tableau is a core component of making data accessible to as many people as possible at the company. A large percentage of the company uses Tableau on a daily basis to discover insights and be more data informed. With this, our self-serve user base is rapidly growing.

In this session, we’ll share how we are using Tableau “out of the box” and also describe how it fits into our overall data environment. In addition, we’ll describe how we expect to use the Data Catalog and Object Model, our explorations of large-scale data stores, and challenges we are working on including governance and data lineage.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

How can a series of Tableau dashboards deliver $35m value? In this session, Paul Chapman, Tableau ambassador and user-group leader, will show how a global, virtual team can deliver value on every dashboard created, using a suite of supporting tools and utilizing AI, machine learning, sentiment and spatial analytics. Learn how JLL transformed a six-week task into a matter of hours, and transformed data into actionable insights to drive performance through the analytical journey, from diagnostic, to discovery, and into predictive and prescriptive.

If you know you have to deal with dashboard performance, but don't even know where to start, then this session is for you. We will provide the tried-and-tested method of how to deal with performance issues. What must you do before you talk to the DBA? What are things you can deal with on your own? What are the most common mistakes that lead to performance issues in vizzes? We will take an extremely slow dashboard and peel through the layers as we make it more efficient together.

Are you looking to increase your dashboard views? Do you need one place to tell your story? Portal pages are a great way to keep your users targeted and engaged, while making Tableau the star of the show. This session will provide all the information needed to create portal pages within your organization. Topics will include: • KeyBank’s journey into portals • How portals have forced our analysts to become closer to our users • Getting started with a few simple tools (Tableau Server/Tableau API/HTML/Notepad++) • Designing your portals “like the internet” for users of all technical skills • Structuring your portals to be modular & scalable to create a similar look and feel • Best practices to make your portals shine

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!

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.

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.

In this session, we are going to dig into how to make data most relevant to you. Tableau is all about having the right people seeing the right data at the right time. You will be learning about the fundamentals of filtering, how and when to use filters, and potential use cases. Prior basic knowledge about Tableau Desktop user interface would be helpful but not necessary.  

Join us for a special networking opportunity to talk about all things around embedding Tableau. Don't miss this great opportunity to connect with Tableau developers, ask questions, and provide feedback that can make a difference.

Midwest Health Collaborative (MHC) was charged with bringing financial and clinical data to member hospital systems’ to drive population health initiatives. However, complicated charts and clunky reports hindered user adoption.

MHC addressed these challenges thru a user-drive design that enabled a deep understanding of users and their initiatives, to deliver solutions in response to their specific needs.

This is driving superior decision making and measurable value. The Population Health Engine enables executives to instantly identify a strategy to maximize revenue across contracts, contract managers to set tactical plans in line with that strategy, and care coordinators to execute those plans by generating lists of specific patients with quality care gaps for outreach. This is reducing waste and driving rapid responses to shifts in population risks, enabling fast detection of changes in spending and quickly identifying areas of concern for remediation.

When expenses get out of control, how do you course-correct? Come listen to Tableau Finance walk through how data analytics were employed efficiently and effectively to remediate travel expense overages. As this monitoring process evolved, actionable business insights were discovered and now serve as a guidepost for strategic planning and decision-making. This session will demonstrate how we use Tableau internally to manage travel and entertainment expenses and plan for future growth.

This session will help you learn how to use customize API and PG scripts to manage server administration such as automate content administration, how to have two HOT HOT clusters which can help achieve 0% down-time, different ways to speed-up content migration between different clusters, on-demand cache management based on freshness of the data and much more.

Wondering how to deploy an IoT solution that could bring tremendous value to your organization? Get inspired by compelling Tableau Customer IoT journeys, ranging from small businesses willing to unlock new opportunities from sensor data, to the largest enterprises providing IoT Platforms, Solutions and Expertise As A Service. In addition, we'll show live on stage a way to jump-start your IoT project with a flexible platform that can be tailored to your needs, by leveraging AWS and Tableau.

Transportation benefits are one way for companies to differentiate themselves in recruiting great talent. Using our own HR survey data, we were able to derive valuable insights into employee commute behavior and design a more effective transportation program. Expanding beyond our own internal initiative, Tableau has partnered with the City of Seattle and the Washington State Department of Transportation to help companies analyze employee commute behavior and benchmark their program against other employers. Cities like Seattle are experiencing unprecedented growth and increasing traffic congestion, and employers that are able to tailor their commute programs to meet their employees’ needs will be more successful in employee retention. Come learn how Tableau enables employers and cities to solve a shared problem with 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.

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!