Sessions

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. 

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.

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.

Talent Analytics within ServiceNow was established in 2017, and the team was tasked with quickly revamping older, underused Tableau Dashboards. We were asked to create a suite of dashboards for various audiences around Headcount Footprints, Org Health, Attrition, Promotions, and Diversity - all in an attempt to drive data awareness and acumen across the HR organization. Along the way, we’ve learned how to manage IT relationships, stakeholder expectations, and how to get creative with Tableau. We’re excited to share our journey with you, present sample dashboards, and talk about where we want to head next.

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

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!

Tableau Prep has a lot in store for the future. Come and get a taste of where we are, and where we're going. Come see some ideas for Tableau Prep that are in the works, that are planned, or that are currently just ideas. Help shape what you think is important!

As part of our strategic planning, Shawnee State University has undertaken a major initiative to become a data-informed campus. As a part of this effort, there is a recognition of the strategic importance of enrollment management and student affairs data. Through a cross-campus partnership, the Enrollment Management: Matriculation to Graduation Dashboard allows us to drill-down from application through enrollment to analyze academic year cohorts, specific student group cohorts, student progress, and student-generated revenue. Shawnee State will illustrate the planning process, approach, and key components required for success and share: - Lessons learned in the dashboard process - Best practices, including WCAG compliance, when designing dashboards - Techniques for herding your team to success

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

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.

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

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.

Tableau helps people quickly analyze their data. But what if an application was designed with an incomplete understanding of the problem domain, and a data model doesn’t exist? In this session, we will explore how users can leverage Tableau’s Extract API to create data models. We will share our use-case—how we created one of the world’s first data models for analyzing patient continuous infusion drugs, as well as the five-minute version of how Texas Children’s Hospital is leveraging this data to better treat critically ill pediatric patients. Finally, we will focus on the nuts and bolts of the Extract API, review our use-case in detail, jump into the Extract API, and walk everyone through a step-by-step of creating their first data model.

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

Join this session and see examples that demonstrate why you would want to embed Tableau dashboards inside internal knowledge bases, blogs, and as a component in web applications. You also will get an introduction to the key features required to enable robust embedding.

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

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.

Semantics is an area of linguistics and natural language processing to help make sense and meaning of the world around us. In visual analytics, using principles of semantics can help improve the meaning and overall cognition of a visualization to the user. In this talk, we will discuss how we are thinking of adding semantics to help enrich various aspects of the visual analytics workflow. By incorporating and inferring general concepts to empowering users to add domain-specific knowledge, semantic governance can bring more meaning to the analytical experience.

You've learned about actions and interactivity, but how do you truly implement a “guided analytics” approach where performance and user experience live in perfect harmony? This session will empower you to combine numerous techniques to create truly snappy and engaging dashboards that your users will love.

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.

Founded and run by Tableau Zen Master Chloe Tseng, Viz for Social Good is a community project that helps mission-driven organizations harness the power of data visualization for social change. Viz for Social Good has been named a finalist in the Fast Company's 2018 World Changing Ideas Awards and was awarded a Silver at the 2017 Information is Beautiful Awards.

Join Chloe for a brief introduction to this initiative, then meet and viz with your fellow attendees on the latest project for Kevin Richardson Foundation to help change and reverse the state of Africa’s declining lion population. All are welcome, whatever your level of experience from absolute beginner to accomplished vizzer, just be sure to bring your laptops!

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.

In this session, we'll demonstrate how we use Python, Tableau story templates, and the Tableau API libraries to automate the production of customized analytics for our clients. We will also show how we use Tableau Server workbook tags and custom permissions to drive the delivery through our front-end web application. This results in higher client engagement, and an easier entry for people new to analytics.

Ever wonder about the prospect of employment after graduation? The British Columbia Institute of Technology (BCIT) integrates Tableau in forecasting labor market statistics for education programs. The main goal is to assist the decision-making of internal administrative concerns and the students’ occupation of choice. Discover how we use Tableau to: - Compare Provincial Education Data Warehouse to economic time series data - Use forecasting tools and key economic indicators to predict job vacancies - Analyze the data to internally make decisions to create programs - Promote our programs to potential students with Tableau by giving them access to job-to-graduate ratios, salary data, and occupation growth rates

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.

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.

Are you new to (or considering!) Tableau Server and looking for ways to on-board users, promote best practices, and scale adoption with ease? Organizations new to Tableau Server often struggle with laying the right foundations for success. Discover how easy Tableau Server can be for new users with tools like Certified Data Sources and Dashboard Starters. Learn how to teach your users the basics around organizing, and securing your sites, projects, and data sources. Finally, learn how enabling adoption can lead to better insights for the entire organization!

Being one of the largest retail pharmacy chains in the world, Walgreens wanted to leverage their data to optimize supply chain business strategy. To be able to achieve the use cases that will improve supply chain efficiency and reduce inventory costs, there is a need to process 466 billion rows of inventory data and sales data from over 20,000 suppliers and 9,000 stores. Their current systems were strained while dealing with the scale and cardinality of their data, and could not provide timely insights to thousands of suppliers and business users. The visualizations are essential to support the data sharing strategy between Walgreens and their suppliers. In this talk, Walgreens will describe how they use Kyvos and Tableau to analyze two years of historical data instantly and interactively to get deeper insights into their supply chain.

In the last two years our Tableau user group at PepsiCo has tremendously grown, effectively engaging teams all over the world to solve their business requirements. We could not have done that without a comprehensive blueprint to share, communicate, and collaborate with all 17,000+ users. In this session, we will discuss how PepsiCo planned, implemented, deployed our current community, as well as share our long-term strategy. As a part of that process, we’ll talk about how we encourage best practices for dashboard design and cover a majorly successful use case where we embedded visualizations inside our global corporate portal.

In this session, you'll learn how to extend Tableau with the power of machine learning as a non-data scientist, and elevate your data analysts to citizen data scientists. Using Big Squid's machine learning platform Kraken, we'll show you how to uncover hidden patterns in your data and answer forward-looking business questions like "What will happen tomorrow?" and "What can we do about it today?". Come learn from other Tableau customers on how they embraced machine learning and saw immediate value with Kraken, running predictive analytics, what-if scenarios and providing actionable insight to the business. Get on the path to predictive today!

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.

The financial sector builds tools to interpret and manage risk in an increasingly complex world. We produce vast amounts of data that require synthesis with disparate public and private data sources. Legacy systems and regulatory pressures have forced the financial industry to produce reports that can be time-consuming and delay decision making. At Bank of America, we've created a suite of portfolio surveillance tools that help the company in our mantra of responsible growth and operational excellence. This session will show how we use Tableau to empower senior executives with interactive, actionable analytics for evaluating potential risks and the magnitude of a portfolio’s susceptibility to those risks.

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.

Does your organization publish data visualizations on their website or company blog? Learn how the likes of tell their public-facing data stories using Tableau. In particular we will learn how to find data stories that your PR and social media teams will love, design beautiful vizzes optimized for public consumption, embed vizzes in your website, via Tableau Public, and ensure everything fits within your existing site content.

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)

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.

Table calculation or LOD expression? This session will provide you with a framework for making that choice. Learn about relevant parts of the calculation pipeline, performance implications, and the suitability for the scenario at hand. And, of course, you will hear real-world examples to illustrate each of these points.

Back by popular demand—a top TC breakout session... Are you in a love-hate relationship with Excel? Frustrated and feeling like you're not moving forward? Bring back the romance. Let Excel do what Excel is good at. Move the analytics tasks you depend on and supercharge them in Tableau. This session will cover not only how to duplicate and improve Excel functionality in Tableau, but how to move beyond the constraints of rows and columns. Join us and repair your relationship with Excel. There's a happy world of dynamic, interactive analytics waiting for you.

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

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

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

Flex is ushering in the Age of Intelligence by delivering insights, cultivating ideas, and pushing boundaries. Through leadership in design, engineering and manufacturing digitization, Flex is on a mission to put supply chain management at the heart of a smarter, more connected world. In support of that goal, FlexPulse is a purpose-built platform which takes our supply chain data and delivers it in an insightful and actionable form. Join us to get an overview of our Pulse environment, its evolution, and how we partner with Tableau in our journey from data to Intelligence.

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.

You converted to named user, now what? In this session, we’ll go through strategies for deploying the conversion, and how to help users set up and manage their new named user model.

Still sorting your drags from your drops? Still mixing your dimensions with your measures? This session has your newbie name all over it. Come tackle the fundamentals of Tableau, including how to connect to data, answer statistical questions, build maps, and apply some table calculations in a dashboard you can take with you at the end of the session.

Join this session to learn more about each of the four different calculation types in Tableau. This session is designed for those who would like to take the 'analytics' in their 'visual analytics' to the next level.

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.

At Marriott, the customer experience team uses Tableau to encourage data-informed decision making in business units across the globe. In this talk, Yinian Hou and Kristin Yanulites of Marriott will discuss how the team transformed the culture of data and reporting, drove enterprise-wide adoption and doubled the user-base within a year. Attendees will also learn about how to manage and scale-up the Server’s contents and data sources using the latest functionality from Tableau 10.5.

Check out this session to learn more about parameters, when and why they are useful, and how to leverage them as a powerful tool in your analysis. You’ll witness how parameters are used in Tableau Desktop, Tableau Server, and via the Tableau API. We will use parameters in common and uncommon analytics scenarios and address how they can be used to build interactive experiences in Tableau.

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

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.