Sessions

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.

Join the Maps Dev team and your fellow mapping enthusiasts for an hour dedicated to you. This session will have opportunities to network, participate in group discussion, and provide feedback to the Map Dev team on the problems you are solving and want to solve with Tableau mapping capabilities. If you work in State and Local Government, Transportation and Logistics, Oil and Gas, Retail, Natural Resource Management, Insurance, Consumer Services or in any industry or position where your location drives your business, please join us.

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.

Actionable data and timely analytics are vital for understanding and addressing the challenges of our global community. People around the world have answered the call and are leveraging Tableau to take on issues of peace and security, health, sustainable development and prosperity, and justice, and all around drive forward progress on the Sustainable Development Goals. Prepare to laugh, cry, and be all around amazed and inspired to take action on your own as the dedicated Tableau team that supports the United Nations globally showcases #DoGoodData - a collection of the most impactful hits - in action.

Hiring great Tableau developers is one way to get results! What if you could motivate people to learn, keep them engaged, improve culture and coach them to build their skills?!

Motivating Science + Game Design = Making Magic Happen! 

Join this session to takeaway your own gamification program: The Tableau Quest.  See how organisations are using this learning framework, enabling people to build best in class viz capabilities.  Learn how to level up! Layering training, challenges and certification with tips and tricks to motivate, collaborate, and most importantly - have fun!

Starting out with statistics? This session is for you. We’ll launch from basic statistics (what they mean, how to access them in Tableau), then tackle creating box plots, histograms, control charts and more.

In this talk, we’ll explore how we ensure that a customer's Tableau Server installations are secure. We’ll talk about our security model, how we encrypt secrets, how we secure communications and finally how to lock down your Tableau Server host machines to enhance security.

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

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!

This session will talk about JDBC connectors in Tableau which include Athena (first official one), Oracle, Presto and Generic JDBC (dev in progress). This session will also cover how to enable connecting through JDBC, explore what the customizable capabilities are that can be set to tweak performance, and learn what the pros and cons of VS ODBC are.

Need to combine data from disparate sources? Scarier still—do you have data in spreadsheets, databases, and multiple other systems? Is it in the cloud? If reading this just amped up your heart rate, this session is for you. Learn basic techniques needed to bring data together (from all different data sources), and all within Tableau! There are no prerequisites for this session, but it’ll be especially helpful for users who bring a basic knowledge of the Tableau Desktop interface. Expect to master the basics of data blending in Tableau, an intro to cross-database joins, terminology, troubleshooting and more.

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.

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.

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.

When doing any analysis, whether it be financial, sales, workforce, or production, you inevitably need to make decisions on what factors are influencing your business. Many times that becomes an intuitive guessing game. What if you could use visual elements grounded in statistics and data science? You can, by employing the power of Dataiku and Tableau together to identify, predict, and act. In this session, we will demonstrate how Dataiku helps identify the drivers of key metrics in your key performance indicators (KPIs). We will then take our analysis further by isolating, predicting new data, and folding the values back into Tableau and our analysis.

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

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 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.

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!

Everyone loves a good map (especially your boss), but for the last few years, doing more with your maps has required multiple tools beyond Tableau. Too many tools, too many techniques that require long blog posts to understand, and too many times “That’s only possible with the Javascript API”. You’ve been waiting for your DeLorean and it still hasn’t arrived. Fear not, for Mapbox and Tableau are here to bring you the future of maps, today. In this session, we’ll cover how to solve your biggest mapping challenges all within the Tableau platform, from the most basic styling to address-level geocoding to doing drive-time analysis, with a few surprises thrown in. When we’re done, you can hop on your hoverboard and take it all home with you.

Enterprise AI is a target state where every business process is AI-augmented and every employee is an AI beneficiary. But what's really behind the marketing hype? Lot's of data science and machine learning! And it's not all being done by people with "data scientist" in their signature. In this talk, Kurt Muehmel, VP Sales Engineering at Dataiku, will share learnings from the field, describing how analysts with different skill sets and companies of different sizes have begun this journey. Some are farther along than others, and by making the right decisions now and avoiding stumbling blocks, you can to supercharge your quest to this AI-fueled future.

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.

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.

Windstream’s Campaign Influence project brings together data from Marketo, SalesForce, and billing systems to provide a single source of truth across sales and marketing. Learn how the marketing strategy team developed a common language and measurable goals to understand trends and create an environment for agile business deployment decisions. Moving from manual spreadsheet reporting to automated, systematic updates wasn’t easy, but efficient design and strategic partnerships from inception to deployment resulted in a sustainable, effective, and time-saving tool. This session will cover the importance of creating consistency across departments with tips to get there, how to design for a range of users from executives to individual contributors, and clear concepts to capture marketing influence.

From pipeline management to understanding their customers better, sales departments are using analytics to make every minute and call count. This gathering provides a casual environment to connect with and learn from other sales leaders and sales operations professionals.

The session will examine ProSight’s data analytics journey, exploring challenges as a growing firm, and how we addressed them using Tableau to gain useful insights into our data. It will walk through process improvement initiatives implemented as a result of end users now having access to data that supports their previously unsupported assertions. We will provide insights into how we replaced our enterprise financial reporting tool with Tableau in under four months, reducing costs by 53%, improving speed of data availability by 43% and reducing error rates due to gaps in systems interfaces by 40%. Using Tableau, we reduced the time to integrate new data sources from months to days, enabling a culture of transparency and ownership.

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.

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

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.

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!  

Join this session to learn how the unlikeliest of places - your company's restrooms, for example - can inspire knowledge workers across the enterprise to adopt visualization best practices and up their Tableau game. In this session you'll hear from the creator of an internal periodical with a global reach of thousands and an editorial board including a former Tableau Iron Viz Champion who will share his lessons learned—one year into an experiment to turn bathroom walls at Facebook into a canvas for data viz best practices.

The Tableau Community is unlike any other – our passionate members are why we do what we do! This is a chance to come meet the Tableau Community Team, Tableau Ambassadors, Zen Masters and User Group leaders. If you’re interested in starting your own User Group, want to learn what it takes to become a Zen Master or Tableau Ambassador, or just want to network with some of the smartest people we know, you won’t want to miss this meetup.

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.

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.

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!

Tableau users are naturally more likely to adopt a dashboard if it feels familiar and customized for them. With so many options of how to format in Tableau, it can sometimes feel daunting to be assigned the task of implementing a seamless and repeatable corporate standard. In this session, you will learn how to create a unified look and theme across dashboards in Tableau Desktop, Tableau Server and on mobile devices, without even needed a degree in graphic design. You will also learn how to provide templates for your designs to be reused by others. Finally, the session will cover how to customize your Tableau Server interface or use the Javascript API to take advantage of existing user portals.

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.

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.

Companies must tap into the brilliance within their organizations to scale rapidly and move faster than competitors. Pluralsight, today, is helping thousands of companies transform at scale by delivering a state-of-the-art learning environment and courses to educate business professionals in a wide range of technical disciplines. Behind the scenes Pluralsight is embarking on its own transformational journey to centralize all of its data in order to deliver an even more dynamic learning experience for its customers. In this engaging panel discussion, the audience will learn about the architectural and operational considerations in providing many users — with a wide range of data requirements and technical knowledge — access to all Pluralsight corporate data. Fernando Rodriguez, Head of Data Engineering at Pluralsight, will describe the architectural considerations to enable a self-service data environment. Greg Tabak, Director of Data Operations, will describe the operational considerations in providing many users, with a wide range of data requirements and technical knowledge, access to corporate data, and Michael Mixon, a Zen Master at Pluralsight, will provide some unique insights on how easy access to more data fundamentally changes the way you look at Tableau and the impact this can have on a business.

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

Let's make content audits suck less. Learn how Tableau's SEO team used Tableau Desktop to tell the story of our big, messy technical content audit. Instead of keeping our audit in massive spreadsheets, we shared audit visualizations and insights via Tableau Server, expediting stakeholder buy-in and motivating action faster than a spreadsheet ever could. By connecting to live data and publishing to Tableau Server, stakeholders had the opportunity to explore content performance in ways that industry standard SEO tools, like Search Console and ScreamingFrog, do not offer. This session will show off some of the dashboards we made, the data story we were able to share with our stakeholders, the changes this project enabled, and how you can start visualizing your own content audits today.

It's hard to analyze data that you don't know exists. How do you know what's out there? Once you find it, can you trust it? What if it contains sensitive information? How can you be sure you have what you need so you can move on to deeper analysis in Tableau? Come learn about the value a Data Catalog can provide as you get hands-on with the Unifi Data Platform. 1) Discover data you didn't know existed using NLP to search through data from across your organization; 2) Build the catalog by crawling through data everywhere - File shares, databases, Tableau Server (Oh My!); 3) Identify sensitive data with Unifi's auto-detection of PII and customizable data masking; 4) Collaborate to create your own community of new data sets, metadata, and user-defined data types; 5) Output your trusted data to Tableau-ready formats (.twbx, .tde) for further analysis in Tableau Desktop

In 2016, Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) began an effort to develop standardized metrics for our highest leadership levels down to our 25 districts and more than 30 divisions. This session will walk through the bottom-up journey to improve the use of data, its transparency, and its delivery. Our story will provide the steps taken that led to our Tableau deployment, examples of our leadership dashboards within the pyramid framework, initial deployment lessons learned, and where the Tableau movement is heading. You will get a chance to see our public website with embedded Tableau visuals, and learn about the importance of governance, which is critical at the time of any Tableau deployment.

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.

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

Want mobile visualizations outside of Tableau Mobile? Have an existing app you’d like to juice up with some vizzes? This session will dive deep into Tableau’s open-source mobile app bootstrap. We’ll discuss the new React Native framework and how it enables web developers to write cross-platform apps. We’ll also cover how to retrieve viz images for offline use, the basics of authenticating with Tableau Server, and how to set up long-lasting user sessions. Common app pitfalls will also be covered, alongside tales of amazement…and sadness…from organizations who’ve worked with the mobile app bootstrap.

Do you ever look at a dashboard, gather insights, then open a business application to action? Do you want to bridge the gap between consuming data and acting on what the data is telling us, without waiting for deployment of the Extensions API? The Nationwide Claims department is using Tableau to assist not only leaders but associates, providing a platform to gain insights and act directly within our dashboards. Learn how we are using Tableau to help put lives back together after a claim and increase associate efficiency, using dashboard actions that interact with our claim handling systems. We will discuss: - Design and implementation strategy - Step-by-step integration of a Tableau dashboard into Guidewire’s ClaimCenter - Lessons learned

More and more HR departments are hiring data scientists and using analytics to improve their recruiting, hiring, and retainment practices. Learn from others about what is making an impact on their business. This gathering will provide a casual environment with audience-led discussions. Come with your questions ready.

Come learn how to create and publish dashboards that are accessible to users with a wide variety of disabilities. We’ll learn about the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines and how to apply them in Tableau, so that your dashboards meet Section 508 and EN 301 549 requirements.

Eager to install Tableau Server on Linux, but not sure where to start? In this class you will get hands-on experience spinning up your own instance of Tableau Server on a Linux machine. We will be installing and configuring Tableau Server using Tableau Services Monitor ensuring you get to utilize some of the brand-new features that are now available. Expect to learn best practices on completing the install, configuring Tableau Server on Linux, and migrating effectively from your existing system.