Sessions

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.

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!

One of the traditional defining principles of data visualization is that the data should drive the design. In fact, google "design-driven data" and, bar only a few exceptions, most results will still have those words in the order "data-driven design." In this session, learn how it’s possible to take an alternative look at data visualization by using real-world designs to create visualizations or data art pieces which remain true to the underlying data. The result is not just a chance to have fun and be creative, but in learning how to work with Tableau to create unusual and eye-catching visualizations, as well as developing a more creative eye, you may gain more technical skills along the way to take into future projects.

Last year at TC17, I outlined 10 basic steps, from data inception to decision point. Most of the feedback and questions I received were related to one step, “Communicate and Educate.” I realized that organizational change is a bigger issue that needs to be solved regardless of your level of planning, execution or delivery. While Tableau is Nationwide's current standard for data visualization, we have a lot of departments that are having a difficult time moving from standard reporting to visual analysis. I will share the three key areas we have utilized to drive organizational change successfully through most areas of the company: education, community and support.

Come engage with fellow government innovators and enthusiasts. This casual gathering aims to inspire conversations and connections among those in the government industry.

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

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

What does my sample tell me about the population? Based on past values, what can I expect future values to be? If these are questions you’d like to answer, then this session is for you! Come and learn how to use Tableau and statistical analysis to answer these basic questions and more. Some familiarity with mathematics or statistics is recommended (variables, functions). Some familiarity with Tableau is required (intermediate calculations and table calculations, analytics pane).

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

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

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.

Join this session to learn how to deploy Tableau Mobile at an enterprise scale. We’ll talk about different authentication types supported in mobile, challenges in securing data and how to overcome these issues by using Mobile Device Management (MDM) services to manage the mobile app and the mobile device. We’ll also discuss new features in the mobile app.

Data Security takes a lot of ingredients, and even if you’ve got a recipe that works for a nightly dinner, you may need a new plan when everyone’s coming for a celebration (like TC18!) . Ron, Jon and Bryant are here to show you how to make Going Big Easy with all of your row level security needs. As members of Tableau’s Embedded Analytics and GSI teams, they handle only the biggest and most complex of customer security use cases, and in this session, they’ll learn you how to make programmatic variations on data sources, secure incoming API parameters, and even generate entire data sets in Hyper with security baked right in.

Applying real-world use cases, we will showcase example dashboards across key verticals such as: healthcare, government, finance, NGOs, retail, logistics, and telecoms. Join this session and see how Tableau users can find the value-add of location analytics beyond "dots on a map."

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!

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.

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!

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.

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

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

In over your head with financial data? Join this session for finance by Tableau Finance and learn how we use our product to crunch the numbers. Expect to learn how to combine actuals from your general ledger with forecasts and budgets within Tableau (when they’re likely originating from different places and stored at different levels of detail), and how to create depreciation/amortization schedules when Tableau doesn’t have a built-in “dates” data source. Along the way, you will get tips on how to Flatten Account/Department Hierarchies and build an Income Statement. If there’s time, we’ll address topics such as Balance Sheet and Dash of Dashboards.

The State of Missouri’s Department of Social Services, Family Support Division (DSS FSD) provides Missouri citizens can apply to access to benefits such as: food stamps, child care, temporary assistance, and adult and family medicaid insurance. To meet or exceed application processing timeliness, the risk analysis unit developed real-time operation business intelligence dashboards for decision makers and front-line staff. This session will share our success in providing operational reports with Tableau and show examples of dashboards currently used by the State of Missouri DSS FSD. Attendees of this session will learn about: - Getting buy-in from decision makers - How simple reports can result in big impacts - Managing data overload

Does your company have a leadership pipeline that includes underrepresented minorities? Have you implemented programs to diversify your company’s senior leadership? Are you an underrepresented minority with ideas on how companies can grow current employees into leaders? Have a seat at the table and join us as we discuss the importance of diversity in leadership and share experiences that have led to success.

Many of us have been, or are in, the position of implementing or expanding an Analytics program. In many of those cases, we face resistance. This can be especially fierce when doing a modern self-service rollout vs. a legacy centralized implementation. Roadblocks can take the form of security, costs, benefits, features, and plain old obstructionists. Hear from Tableau’s Director of Enterprise Analytics as he shares his experiences, both inside and outside of Tableau, of being in that same position. You’ll learn how to prepare for those potential obstacles, gather the right data, and build support through both cultural and technological changes. Put into practice, you can get your approvals and make your next deployment a smashing success!

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

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.

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.

In 1994, a few thousand runners participated in the first Walt Disney World Marathon. 25 years later, Walt Disney World hosts several of the largest races in the United States. A visualized history of runDisney events is presented to illustrate the differences in participant behavior compared to other similarly sized non-Disney running events. This session uses Tableau to investigate how the behavior of runDisney participants has changed over time and compares this behavior to select non-Disney events across the 25-year history of running at Disney World. Visualization enthusiasts will appreciate the advanced chart types, complex calculations and data manipulation required to create Tableau visualizations from publicly posted runDisney race results.

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.

Actions in Tableau put the interactive in Data Analysis! This session aims to provide a solid foundation for building rich dashboard applications and will cover best-practices for using Actions. At the end of this session, you will be able effectively consider and apply various interactive techniques, including action triggers and behavior within and across sheets. We’ll discuss: selection, filtering highlighting, navigation, and the *new* set action feature. We will also cover parameters, instant analytics, tooltips, and more!  

Have you ever needed to create data out of thin air? Call it what you want: pad, scaffold or skeleton - sometimes we need to fill the gaps in our data because data that’s stored efficiently isn’t data stored effectively for the complex business questions we’re tasked with answering. In this session, we’ll explore how cross database joins and Tableau Prep can be used to make performing time-based analysis simple.

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.

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

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.

Satisfy your hunger for data and put your Tableau recipes to the test. In this class, we will take you on a journey behind the scenes into the Tableau Kitchen to see where all the house specials are made. Expect  a robust flavor profile from spicy visualizations to savory table calculations, leave feeling inspired with new tips in tricks to take home to your Tableau kitchen.  Heads up, this class does require some preparation. Before enrolling, makes sure you a working knowledge of the advanced computing options for Table Calculations, familiarity with standard table calculations, and comfort writing calculations.

PS. Toque and smock required (just kidding)

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.

Discover how to enhance collaboration between data scientists and business users. We will show how the integration between Tableau Server and R/Python will empower both types of users to complement each other’s skill sets and validate each other’s findings. Learn how to scale your deployment to larger audiences with best practices surrounding load balancing as well as performance optimization. We welcome both business users and data scientists to learn about the art of the possible when you combine advanced analytics with the Tableau experience you have come to expect in your enterprise.

In order to stay competitive, organizations are increasingly relying on data science to make decisions. However, small teams of data scientists may not have the bandwidth to meet the increasing demands of internal or external customers. One solution to this challenge is to combine the power of Tableau with the scalability and flexibility of the web. In this talk we'll demo a live web portal with embedded Tableau vizzes and data science models that users can query via parameters and visualize in real time!

This session goes beyond Tableau's R/Python integration by persisting tables of output from a model, leveraging the performance of a database, and supporting different inputs/outputs than the Tableau viz LOD. If you're interested in learning the building blocks and Tableau APIs required to make this a reality, then this session is for you!

The United States Air Force is currently undergoing an infrastructure modernization to effectively deliver on core mission capabilities, while maintaining low life-cycle-costs. Harnessing their data with Tableau, the US Air Force Installation and Mission Support Center (AFIMSC) uses analytics to manage data and data-driven decisions across the enterprise. Through governance, visualization, and a growing community of practice, visual analytics allows the AFIMSC to further their mission of understanding the cost of mission infrastructure. Since rolling out their pilot program in early 2017, Tableau Server and Desktop have saved the Civil Engineer of the Air Force $500M directly, allowing the infrastructure program to have the highest return on investment, while keeping the impact of various missions top of mind.

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.

Customer Acquisition and retention are essential in the increasingly competitive world of financial services to survive. Through real business cases, learn how to leverage Tableau to better understand customers, allowing for quick discovery of commercial opportunities and hidden sale potentials.

In this session you will learn:
- How to better understand customers using visual analytics
- How to find undiscovered commercial opportunities quickly and easily
- How to find actionable sale potentials

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.

See how to use Tableau to show how AI and ML technology is closing the unstructured-to-actionable data gap with Tableau and ALI Data Insights from ThoughtTrace. During the session, we will have a live demonstration of how critical data can be surfaced in contracts and legal documents in just minutes, allowing human intelligence to focus on critical elements for analysis, and ultimately resulting in a significant reduction in risk and better insights into obligations. This technology enables companies to integrate newfound data with their own internal data and systems to gain additional insights. Capabilities include detailed visualizations that provide holistic insight into a range of use cases, and the Tableau capabilities include mapping functions that provide greater insight based on geographical location. Report templates can be used as a baseline to build custom reports, and SQL data is easily integrated into existing systems.

With our combined nine-plus years of Tableau experience, we’ve navigated many detours that we wish someone could have told us before we took them. Let our pain become your gain as we go down memory lane. Join us for this jam-packed session where we look back at some of the things that caused us intense frustration. We’ll journey from the initial request, to design/develop, and finally to operationalization. Throughout, we’ll demonstrate small simple tricks, as well as advanced techniques to elevate what you do know in the following areas: customer relations, data integration, design principles, and reporting operationalization.

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!

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.

The world of data is expanding rapidly, and change is coming. Analysts and businesses around the world are realizing our roles and use of data are evolving, and we must evolve with it. This presentation addresses recent headlines on data and the impact these concerns can have on the modern business model. Learn skills to identify what's happening within your own internal systems and be empowered to address them individually. Learn how to be more pro-active in your data strategy, how to identify potential risks and the effects that they can have if not addressed. Ideal for BI administrators, execs, and analysts looking to understand the role of data ethics.

In this session, we will walk through a complete Tableau portal and the key Tableau technologies used to build it such as: integrated authentication, the REST API and the JavaScript API. You’ll learn through specific examples how to approach building your own embedded Tableau portal. The portal used will be at a level of functionality such that the session is also about the art of the possible.

Tableau is working to boost our support for data science workflows by strengthening our integrations for languages like Python and R, as well as popular platforms like MATLAB. As these tools become more common in the market, we want to understand your needs and use cases for statistics and machine learning technologies, and how we can make your experience in Tableau powerful and delightful. Get the latest scoop from the team and share your experiences and ideas to help guide our plans!

The volume and variety of data continues to increase dramatically as a medium-sized media company has transitioned from a primarily analog company to a digital one. However, the existing reporting tools left access to that data in the hands of very few people. Wanting to change this and knowing that there were budget restrictions, we deployed Tableau Online. Leveraging a phased approach, proved to be successful as the buzz around using data for decision-making has never been higher. Learn about our journey through the peaks and valleys of introducing Tableau Desktop and Online. Learn about practical things that worked and minefields to avoid when deploying Tableau.