Sessions

The Art of Filtering

Want to make your visualizations more interactive? Interested in showing vast amounts of data in a concise, easy to understand view? Come learn about filters and how they can transform and empower your dashboards to new heights. 

Collaborative Dashboarding with Merkle - A Clever Use of Tableau Server

This session will detail the liberating possibilities of a real-time data connection, using data sources published to Tableau Server, that permits one company to view and interact with data behind another company’s secure firewall.

This partnership between Merkle, a CRM agency, and a Fortune 50 company involves a complex series of marketing dashboards that track the performance and goals of the entire marketing team.  As tasks are completed, the dashboards instantly update to show real-time results to senior management.

Creating this live data connection is challenging because of the technological security systems for both Merkle and the Fortune 50 company.  A clever use of Tableau Server data sources not only alleviates this problem, but also provides a collaborative development environment for both parties.  This session will completely explain the technical situation and Server solution with hands-on dashboard examples.

*All data and visuals used in this presentation are sample do not reflect live production reporting from any client

Excel to Tableau

Come learn how to take the Excel spreadsheets you depend on and supercharge them in Tableau.  This talk will cover how to not only duplicate Excel functionality in Tableau, but how to  move beyond the constraints of rows and columns and into the world of dynamic and beautiful analyses filled with the power of interactivity.

Topics covered will include:

• Duplicating Excel functions like VLOOKUP, INDEX, MATCH, etc. in Tableau
• Replicating the function vs. replicating the analysis
• When to stop thinking like an Excel junkie

Getting Started with the JavaScript API

This session acts as an introduction to the Tableau JavaScriptAPI. I'll walk you through the why and the how to use the API, and it will end with a live coding demonstration of embedding a dashboard with the JavaScript API and interacting with it. People with all levels of programming prowess are encouraged to come and ask questions.

How to Make a Viz That Demands Attention

The authors of Tableau Public work every day to please the toughest audience in the world: the internet. Learn the methods they have developed to help their vizes attract attention, tell a story and make an impact.

You’ll learn:

• How to tell a story with your visualization
• How to format and beautify your viz
• Methods to attract views while staying true to best practices

Introduction to Graphics, Infographics & Data Visualization

The data visualization field combines data analysis, graphic design, journalism, and statistics in a way that can help analysts in a variety of fields provide their audience with greater insights into their research and their products. In this presentation, Jonathan will lay the groundwork for how to use data visualization to more effectively communicate to your audience. This session will demonstrate different types of visualizations and their uses, as well as how to avoid creating graphics that result in ineffective and inaccurate perceptions of data. These guidelines will prepare you to create clearer, more accurate, and more visually appealing graphics.

Navigating Healthcare Change through Valuable Tableau Insights at Barnes-Jewish Hospital

The delivery of effective and affordable healthcare, as well as increased investments in electronic medical records and clinical IT systems, has led to a remarkable increase in data.  Barnes-Jewish Hospital has matured its data management system leveraging the strengths of Tableau.  This information drives the goal-deployment plan and key performance indicators through distributed knowledge, leading to actions from the boardroom to the bedside.

Quality and safety programs, supply chain savings initiatives, labor productivity, patient satisfaction, clinical program growth and efficiency and the hospital-wide lean transformation have all been supported with innovative dashboards that provide the insights that deliver a sustainable advantage to the 13-hospital system and the patients it serves.

Redbox: Using Analytics to Optimize the Largest Retail Network in North America

Redbox is a unique business: an entertainment company with a critical role in content distribution, a nearly ubiquitous consumer-facing brand, and a valued partner for some of the largest retailers in world. More than anything, though, Redbox is about kiosks, and it has a lot of them: over 42,000 kiosks in over 34,000 locations; that’s more than McDonald’s and Starbucks combined in the US. Like any retailer, Redbox is constantly optimizing its physical footprint to ensure placement in the best locations possible and provide the most convenient customer experience. This session will explore how internal big data modeling, combined with rich third-party datasets have transformed the way Redbox approaches its location strategy. The presentation will include many examples of how the Strategy & Analytics team at Redbox uses Tableau to reach new insights and empower collaboration and decision-making across a broad audience throughout the company.

Transparency at a University: Using Tableau to Develop an Accountability Website at Texas A&M

Texas A&M uses Tableau for their University Accountability Website. Because the website is for reporting (rather than analysis) and is for the public, Meredith’s team tries to keep the interfaces simple and the tooltips helpful. To aid interpretation, they use parameters, dashboard actions and multiple quick filters.

In creating the website, the team took a fresh look at the data to decide what kind of story they want to tell (comparisons between colleges/departments, geographic distributions of students/graduates, trends, etc.). Even though there are multiple data types reported, they have created a consistent interface and color palette throughout.

The Texas A&M team has strived to create a website that serves the colleges, the administration and the general public, and in this session they’ll tell you how they did it, and what they learned in the process.

Big Data Analytics at Mozilla

The new era of Big Data is upon us, however all this data is useless unless you can effectively mine and analyze it. Mozilla is no stranger to Big Data, yet Tableau is ushering in an entirely new aura of optimism on how easily they can analyze these vast data sets and help make the Web more open. In Ben's talk he will cover how Mozilla is implementing Tableau to take full advantage of their data volumes and accomplish goals that benefit hundreds of millions of users.

Building a Tableau Culture by Learning and Growing at Janssen Pharmaceutical

This session will share the innovative business approach in deploying a visualization and analytical culture and expertise at Janssen using Tableau.  This includes the approach used to engage the analytical community across all functions (finance, project management, strategy and operations), innovative learning and change management approach and creating a structure to manage this new way of working with business governance across all areas.

The impact has been a dramatic change in business by joining poeple who have never worked together before to answer business questions.  Furthermore, it is driving greater accountability and transparency to the source data, which greatly improves data quality.

This talk will provide value to those moving toward a data-driven culture. It will discuss the difficulties in moving a huge organization from the status quo of working in offline Excel files and PowerPoint to a connected, transparent, interactive and visual way of working together

Demonstrating Tableau

Making things look simple and beautiful in Tableau is easy because …well…it's actually easy.  Come to this talk to learn how to make Tableau really shine so when showing it off to other people they are left in awe.

This discussion will cover:
- The 30 second secret
- The power of starting from scratch
- How to show without teaching
- Moving fast vs. covering details: When to do what

Who should attend:
- Tableau Champions that often introduce others to Tableau for the first time
- Partners
- People who like demonstration tips and tricks

Discovery Channel Uses Tableau to Improve Global Broadcast Reliability

Discovery Communications operates 164 television networks in 218 countries and territories. Broadcast reliability is a Key Performance Indicator, measuring the proportion of time that broadcast signals are unaffected by on-air technical discrepancies.

In 2010, Discovery’s London Media Centre (LMC), was lagging behind its regional peers. Due to technical and operational challenges, customers would sometimes receive programs with incorrect languages or content, or with absent/incorrect on-air branding and marketing graphics. These technical issues placed viewer engagement at risk and jeopardized the efforts of media planning and channel marketing strategies. The operations and engineering teams were overwhelmed by the quantity and variety of discrepancies, and struggled to understand the drivers of these issues and to prioritize improvement efforts. Broadcast reliability reports were produced manually with Excel extracts, and managers had little visibility into performance patterns and root causes of outages and other technical deficiencies.

New broadcast reliability reporting was designed in Tableau, providing a clear view of weekly performance against improvement targets, and a series of ad hoc analyses was performed in Tableau to test hypotheses and identify correlations between time-of-day, channel, and performance.

Tableau Server was implemented at Discovery in 2012 and broadcast reliability dashboards have been a cornerstone among a wide variety of performance management views for all levels of management. Server has increased availability of performance information and reduced the effort required for reporting and analysis.

Broadcast reliability at the LMC increased between 2010 and 2011, representing a 67% reduction in discrepancy duration per channel. Reliability improved again in 2012 with a 61% improvement; and has continued to improve in 2013.

How Tableau Makes Being a Little Dangerous Extremely Dangerous

If a little bit of knowledge is dangerous, what does a whole lot of knowledge make you? Tableau has helped RadiumOne, a digital advertising platform, become nearly omniscient in its day-to-day revenue operations and has changed the way the firm uses its data to serve its clients.

In this session, attendees will hear the journey of developing a Tableau platform and what it means to have a tool that fills a critical, but previously unbridgeable, gap between spreadsheets and high cost data analysis. For RadiumOne, the gap has meant the difference between useless noise and real information.

Attendees not yet using Tableau Server and thinking about the benefits, those thinking about using Tableau for near real-time operational usage, and any business people wondering if they, too, can build a BI platform are encouraged to attend.

Rapid Fire Tips and Tricks

If your goal is to learn the most about Tableau in the shortest amount of time this is the session to be in. Come and watch as expert Tableau customers and employees show you a rapid succession of tips and tricks. Expect to learn up to 10 new skills you can apply to your everyday analysis.

SnapLogic : Tableau Online. Empower Yourself for Faster and More Accurate Decisions

While business users are taking charge of their data visualization with easy-to-master Tableau software, comprehensive inclusion of all data sets without IT involvement still remains the long pole to great insights. These insights are only as rapid and accurate as the ability to access and pre-filter data sets. SnapLogic’s Elastic IntegrationTM empowers business users to speedily self-service transformation of and access to any type of data, via batch or transactional update, and residing at any location - on-premise systems or in the cloud. In this session, you will learn how customers have extended their Tableau investments to include Tableau Online and additional SaaS data sources by leveraging SnapLogic’s pre-built connectivity to over 160 data sources, and business analyst-friendly user experience.

Tableau: Hot. Dirty. Sets.

Using Tableau for Agency/Client Integration at Empower MediaMarketing

This session will show how Tableau helped a leading independent agency integrate client KPIs with media metrics and restore order to the agency/client relationship.

By promoting frank discussions over business rules, implementing a Tableau dashboard insured that both the agency and client were fully vested in the KPIs that were really critical to drive the business forward.  This insured that the main areas of focus were maintained and a common version of the ‘truth’ was delivered.

Agencies face unique challenges in that they must not only understand and migrate their way through their own data but also their clients data and data infrastructure.  These challenges can be particularly overwhelming when little is known about the client’s data and relationships are not yet well established between the client and agency.

In this session, you’ll hear how one leading independent advertising agency partnered with a new key client to make data and the insights derived from it an integral part to its promise of: “Start Smart, Get Smarter!”

Best Practices for Mobile

Conquering the Security Challenge: Integrating Big Data for the Government Sector at ASM Research

The rapid expansion of government data and reporting requirements is a new reality for the federal government. Tableau helps deliver smarter analytic tools for decision makers–but how can this be integrated into a secure solution? ASM Research, Inc. focused on quickly developing and designing a high impact business intelligence platform and conquered the security challenges inherent in working with the government. In this session we will explore:

·         How to integrate Tableau into a secure Smart Card environment

·         How Tableau helped meet the government’s need to analyze large and complex data sets.

o   Case Study 1: Army National Guard  Schoolhouse Mission Analysis – Visualizing data saves more than $20M in FY14

o   Case Study 2: Institutional Training Common Operational Picture (ITCOP) – Rapid and flexible access to training data for effective decision making

Deloitte: Tableau in Practice

Tableau has increased the efficency of data delivery, making it possible for companies to quickly and easily deliver more effective and targetted analysis. Learn how Deloitte is using Tableau Software as a rapid fire alternative to the slow pace of traditional business intelligence software.

Designing Visually Inspiring Dashboards at ExxonMobil

This session will feature demos on how to take advantage of Tableau’s built-in features to spruce up the look and feel of dashboards, and share some resources available on-line to help you achieve your objectives. It will present simple yet effective design tips that can help communicate the message behind your visualizations, using best practices developed at ExxonMobil.

The message you wish to share with your visualization is better understood if you use the right colors, font-face, positioning and graphics. While developing dashboards, many tend to spend more time on content and mechanics, and very little time when it comes to aesthetics.

By not applying design considerations, you run the risk of not telling the story that’s important to your audience, and this could impact adoption of the tool. By following the simple tips presented in this session, you can be even more successful when presenting and sharing your visualizations.

Enthusiasm and Outreach, a Recipe for Growing Tableau Adoption at ADP

ADP/Cobalt Dealer Services manages an automotive website and advertising platform for nearly half of the car dealers in the US.  Everything they do needs to scale. Too often there were reports in all areas of the business that were time-consuming to create and maintain. Tableau has allowed ADP to easily put data in the hands of end users, enable teams to scale their own processes, and drive innovation in its data products using data visualization to communicate results.  

Getting to this point took enthusiasm, openness, outreach, collaboration, and, following some quick wins, the enthusiastic backing of senior leadership. Learn how ADP’s team reached across functional groups and grew the user base from two users to a thousand in under a year.  

From Bugsy to Big Data: How Analytics is Transforming Las Vegas

Casino operators are heavily dependent on big data, and the industry has begun to adopt predictive analytics and advanced modeling techniques to optimize everything from customer experience to the layout of the casino floor.  In this session, you will learn how modern resort casinos are using advanced visualizations and data warehousing to get a 360 view of their whales, staff and everyday customers.  The session will cover topics including gaming forensics, slot merchandising and mobile BI, Vegas-style, exploring how these mega-resorts use big data and Tableau in the same way as mega-retailers, manufacturing, and other industries. Along the way, this session will debug some Vegas myths and show you how the numbers are really done in Sin City. 

How to Share Tableau Visualizations

Finding great insights in your data and building great dashboards is only half the problem…other people still have to see them. Come to this talk to learn about the different ways you can share your Tableau visualizations with others. Topics covered will include:
- Tableau Server
- Tableau Online
- Tableau Public (and Public Premium)
- Tableau Reader
- How your audience should influence your sharing choice

Putting the Data in the Hands of Stakeholders Using Parameters at Barclays

Your stakeholders are demanding. They should be; they have tough jobs too! They want to answer questions they haven’t even thought of yet, using the data only your skills and knowledge can access. This session will show how Barclays uses Dashboard Parameters in Tableau to allow stakeholders to explore data and answer not just their original question but follow-on questions also. After a brief overview of the rapid growth of Tableau within Barclays, the session will involve demos of how to create the types of Parameters we use to empower colleagues to combine their expertise with the data. We have enabled the experts to: develop more focused propositions identify our most profitable customers’ product lifecycles, and resolve the root cause of complaints in our operations.

Supercharge Your Salesforce.com Data with Tableau

Tableau Server Administration

Best Practices for Using Color: How and Why

Describing your Data- Descriptive Statistics for One Measure

MarkLogic: How to TRULY connect the dots in your disparate data with NoSQL & Semantic technology in Tableau

In this session, Fernando Mesa, CTO of Enterprise Markets at MarkLogic, will discuss the techniques used to blend a variety of data types (Semantic information or linked data, unstructured, sparse columnar data) using NoSQL technology on the back and Tableau as visualization tool.  The result is a greater level of flexibility and power from being able to correlate, search and analyze this disparate data in its natural form. The session will demonstrate real-life examples in Healthcare and Information services and discuss its applicability in other industries (Public Sector, FinSrv, Life Sciences). Finally we’ll hear from innovative companies like McGraw-Hill Financial, and their approach to solving the puzzle of unifying data silos without tons of ETL work.

Sales Analytics Meetup

Are you using Tableau in your organization to measure things like quota attainment, territory distribution, sales activity, etc.?  If you are then come connect with other Tableau users doing the same thing at the first ever sales analytics meetup. 

- Learn best practices from other sales analytics leaders
- Figure out what metrics you may not be looking at, but should be
- Find out how other companies effectively share critical sales information within their organizations

Teaching Tableau to Play Well with Others - Using the JavaScript API at National Heritage Academies

NHA is a charter school management company currently operating over 70 schools in 9 states.

NHA’s team has heavily leveraged Tableau's new JavaScript API to embed Tableau into a new school leadership portal.  This portal allows principals and deans to interact with Tableau data visualizations that pull from a variety of source systems, as well as access important documents and enter information which they then can see visualized.  Areas that are covered include Academics, Behavior, Enrollment, Attendance, and Teacher skill improvement.

This session will focus on how NHA has used the API, and will also show some cool Tableau tips/tricks that they’ve used to create unique and helpful views.

The Zen of Visual Analysis

Visual analysis is an iterative process for working with data that exploits the power of the human visual system.  The formal core of visual analysis is the mapping of data to appropriate visual representations.

In this talk, you’ll learn:

 •What years of research by psychologists, statisticians and others have taught us about designing great visualizations 

•Fundamental principles for designing effective data views for yourself and others 

•How to systematically analyze data using your visual system

User Experience: Where Websites Succeed and Fail

If you’re interested in attaining rich user experience findings from survey data analysis utilizing Tableau, this presentation is a must. Creating a seamless experience on websites for users is critical, as purchasing behavior increasingly shifts from brick-and-mortar to online. Through intelligent survey design, the survey results are analyzed along with the user’s path through the website. 

Powerful dashboards will be shown that highlight visitor persona, visit intent, visit success, visit failure and failure resolution. Tableau at Usability Sciences allows analysts to spend the majority of their time on analysis and insight, rather than on data management and number crunching.  Tableau has dramatically changed how Usability Sciences performs analysis, resulting in rich user experience findings and actionable insights for our clients.

(All data and visualizations used in this presentation are sampled and do not represent production information from any client)

Using Tableau and Google Analytics

Vigilance and Response - Building Production Reporting Tools to Enable Massively-Parallel Improvement at Tesla

Over the last 2 years, Tesla Motors has built a factory from scratch to deliver its all-electric Model S sedan. The Model S is now in full production at a rate of 20,000 vehicles/year, a 20x increase in production volume compared to Tesla's previous Roadster model. A large challenge with this kind of growth is maintaining great quality with increasing quantity. In the days of the Roadster, a production line could be managed by a single person. Now, the scope of production far exceeds what one person can take in.

Visibility into production data is now what drives awareness and decisions -- this has become a necessity and also an opportunity for even greater improvement. Making data broadly available can provide feedback and promote insight across everyone in the factory. Instead of being limited to a small handful of engineers, data-driven improvements can be made across all levels of production, in a massively-parallel effort.

This is the story of how Tesla is using Tableau to realize this kind of data visibility and the benefits it can enable. In an incredibly fast-paced organization, Tableau has helped us create and quickly adapt many of the reporting tools we need, even as those needs develop and shift. In a production context, this includes [A] high-level production yield and output reports, [B] quality investigations and failure analysis, [C] statistical process control and process monitoring tools, and [D] open-ended data exploration. Tableau has helped us deliver what people want, and this is helping Tesla develop a culture of data-driven vigilance and response along the way.

Authentication and Permissions in Tableau Server

Development Roundtable Discussion

Tableau developers want to talk to you!  Our development team is eager to meet and discuss how Tableau can better help you see and understand data.   Come sign-up during the conference for these roundtable discussions designed for open conversation  led by members of the Tableau Development team on topics like:

• New view types that Tableau should support
• Making visualizations more interactive
• Mobile
• Preparing Data
• Maps
• Color
• Storytelling
• Statistics
• Computing the Numbers that Matter
• Security

Managing Tableau Server

Monday 9:45 to 10:45

Whether you manage Tableau Server for thousands of people or just a few, come discuss how we can improve Server to give you more control, save you time, and make Tableau deployment more successful in your organization.  Topics include adding and removing users, managing licenses, controlling permissions to data sources and workbooks, scheduling extracts and subscriptions, and any other management tasks you want to bring up.

Tableau Organizers: Jun Kim, Jeff Raymakers, Randy Moss, Blake Pusztai

Calculating the Numbers

Monday 11:00 to 12:00

Most data analysis involves calculations. Sums, averages, running totals, custom aggregations, string functions… What metrics and operations matter to you? How do you use Tableau to get the calculations you want? What do you want to do in Tableau that doesn’t seem possible today?

Tableau Organizers: Robin Stewart, Ross Bunker, Bora Beran, Jun Kim

Your Voices On Enterprise Features 

Monday 4:00 to 5:00

Have you ever wanted to share a feature request directly with our development team but couldn’t? Have you ever had brilliant ideas that could make your journey of deploying tableau to your entire organization easier? Please join our development team members to share your ideas and insights on Tableau futures for the enterprise and make your voice heard. 

Tableau Organizers: Neelesh Kamolkar, Elain Chen, Ashley Jaschke, Blake Pustai

Mobile

Tuesday 9:45 to 10:45

Tableau's free mobile apps let you view, edit, and publish visualizations to a Tableau Server using an iPad or Android tablet. Where, when, and how do you use these apps? What prevents you from using them? What do you wish you could do with them? We'd love to hear your feedback on all aspects of our mobile offerings.

Tableau Organizers:   Robin Stewart, Brian Rice, Nick Hritsko, Paul Cardon, Ron Theis

Preparing data for analytics in Tableau

Tuesday 11:00 to 12:00

In any analytics project, getting the data ready for analysis is a huge part of the actual work.  Extensive time can be spent collecting the data from multiple sources, cleaning and reshaping each data set, combining the different data sets, and, finally, optimizing the results to provide reasonable query performance.  Join the round table and discuss what you do to prepare your data and what Tableau can do to make this process easier and save you time. 

Tableau Organizers: Jun Kim, Dan Cory

New View Types and Interactivity

Tuesday 3:00 to 4:00

Would you like to see Tableau add new visualization options, or new interactive capabilities that will help you answer more types of questions.  If so, please join us for a round table discussion and where you can share your scenarios, requirements and suggestions.  We look forward to a lively discussion.  

Tableau Organizers: Sean Boon, Phil Naranjo

Statistics

Tuesday 4:15 to 5:15

Imagine the future of statistics in Tableau.

Discuss forecasting, hypothesis testing, integration with statistical packages and more.

Tableau Organizers: Scott Tennican, Anushka Anand, Tyler Martin, Jeff Booth

Presentation & Storytelling

Wednesday 9:45 to 10:45

Now you see and understand your data. How do you present your findings to others? Come discuss techniques and strategies for effectively communicating through your workbooks. This round-table discussion will focus on presentation-oriented topics: Storytelling, styling, color, typography and more.

Tableau Organizers: Maureen Stone, Robert Kosara, Nick Hritsko, Elizabeth Walkup, James Baker

Maps

Wednesday 11:00 to 12:00

Whether your favorite map is Minard's depiction of Napoleon's march on Russia, or a map that you've built based on your organization's data, come join a discussion about what you would like to see maps in Tableau do next.  Come share your scenarios and ideas in the open discussion on what you would like to be able to do with maps in Tableau.

Tableau Organizers: Sean Boon, Dan Cory

Higher Education Meetup

Colleges, universities and post secondary educational organizations are swimming in data and those that are using Tableau are making the most of it.  Come to this meetup to network with other Tableau users in this space and discuss best practices as well as common frustrations for trying to tackle problems:
- Measuring admission rates
- Analyzing student and staff survey data
- Presenting findings on your website while securing the data
- Institutional Research best practices

Journey to a Single Source of Truth at the FAA

As one of the leading administrations under the Department of Transportation, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has selected Tableau Software to augment and extend its BI strategy to visually analyze varying types of data, helping in its mission to provide the safest, most efficient aerospace system in the world. The FAA chose Tableau to get quicker insights from air traffic operations, workforce planning, financial, IT and a number of other types of data. Tableau has also helped to bring a more self-service approach when it comes to analyzing and sharing information across the organization.

The FAA selected Tableau as part of its information delivery business intelligence program to deliver on the objectives of an open government with greater transparency. It needed to be more visual with information and create a more data-driven culture. Tableau provided the quickest time to market from a development standpoint and was also easy to use, resulting in rapid adoption to more than 200 agency personnel in its transformation initiative.

Leveraging Tableau for Consumer Goods and Retail Analytics

Come to this session to learn from the best of the best in consumer goods and retail analytics. Santiago Restrepo directed business intelligence for two of the largest consumer brands in the world, and he is now an executive with a top-four consulting firm.

This session will walk you through several retail and CPG case studies that leverage Tableau to make decisions about new product introductions, site selection, assortment optimization, market and segmentation analysis and competitor proximity analysis.

Attendees will learn state-of-the-art analysis methodologies and applications of Tableau for the consumer goods and retail industry. Thanks to Tableau, these methodologies can by implemented by any business user, without reliance on IT or developers. This talk will teach you how to be a part of the democratization of analytics happening now in this industry.

You can view Santiago's full presentation here: http://www.consumergoodsanalytics.com/tableau-conference-2013

Practical Query Governance and Data Security

The Art and Science of the Zen Masters

Tableau Zen Masters are nominated by the Tableau community and chosen for their deep knowledge and willingness to break new ground with Tableau. In this session you’ll have the opportunity to experience the analytical process of two Zen Masters as we re-create their technical and groundbreaking visualizations.

You’ll learn:

• Advanced new Tableau techniques
• Visual analysis tips
• How to efficiently create amazing visualizations

Top 10 Table Calculations

Have you always wanted to use Table Calculations but never knew when to use them? Are you confused by addressing and partitioning fields? In this session we will go through 10 powerful examples of using Tableau's Table Calculations to address common business scenarios. These examples will help you derive additional insights from your data. Examples included making relative comparisons, calculating running totals, indexing to an average, shifting data relative to an event, performing statistical calculations and ranking. Come join us and take your analysis to the next level.

Visual Monitoring with Tableau as an Aide to Predictive Model Deployment at InsideTrack

Predictive models can deliver tremendous value if developed effectively and deployed carefully, but they can easily be undermined by everyday problems like missing data or changes in user behavior.  Making matters worse, modern “ensemble” methods can lead to models so complex that only their author can understand their behavior--which delays new modeling if you need to score new records frequently.

InsideTrack, selected this year by Fast Company as one of the 10 most innovative education companies in the world, uses predictive models to focus its uniquely effective and proven student coaching services on the students who can benefit most.  Attend this session to learn how InsideTrack uses Tableau to easily and repeatedly monitor our input data and validate the scoring processes.  Non-analysts welcome: Although predictive models provide the motivation, a similar approach can aide any data process.

Interchangeability using Parameters

This workshop will take you to new heights formatting and interacting with your data through the use of parameters. You will grasp the basics of parameters, then unleash the ultimate interactivity and flexibility of parameters. You will save time churning out similar reports with different dimensions. Have the final view be driven by the end-user through conditional coloring, or change the view type with a parameter. Knowledge of creating calculated fields is required.

Biggest Bang for the Buck: South Carolina Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy Identifies Funding Investment Communities

In the era of major budget cuts, the need to focus on how to get the biggest bang for your grant-funded buck is escalating. As a non-profit organization providing grants and other assistance using limited federal, state and private funds, it is vital that our investments are made in areas with potential for high impact. During this session, participants will hear how the South Carolina Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy is using Tableau to better inform organizational decision-making regarding the communities most likely to benefit from teen pregnancy prevention program funding. Participants will get ideas about how Tableau can be used to communicate data in a non-profit setting, challenges that may be experienced when using Tableau, and the strategies used to address those challenges.

Cash Flow Modeling at Dell Utilizing Multiple Variable Parameters

This discussion will focus on utilizing Tableau to model a complex system of multiple integrated variables to determine which variables have the greatest impact on cash flow and unit growth, and to optimize those variables across geographies, products and customer segments.  The model also allows for on-the-fly "what if" scenarios to aid in critical decision making for go-to-market, pricing, supply chain and fulfillment decisions. There will be a focus on utilizing multiple parameters in Tableau and linking them into calculated fields allowing for quick insight into potential revenue and margin opportunities.  Data visualization will include box plots, scatter and waterfall charts.

Development Roundtable Discussion

Tableau developers want to talk to you!  Our development team is eager to meet and discuss how Tableau can better help you see and understand data.   Come sign-up during the conference for these roundtable discussions designed for open conversation  led by members of the Tableau Development team on topics like:

• New view types that Tableau should support
• Making visualizations more interactive
• Mobile
• Preparing Data
• Maps
• Color
• Storytelling
• Statistics
• Computing the Numbers that Matter
• Security

Managing Tableau Server

Monday 9:45 to 10:45

Whether you manage Tableau Server for thousands of people or just a few, come discuss how we can improve Server to give you more control, save you time, and make Tableau deployment more successful in your organization.  Topics include adding and removing users, managing licenses, controlling permissions to data sources and workbooks, scheduling extracts and subscriptions, and any other management tasks you want to bring up.

Tableau Organizers: Jun Kim, Jeff Raymakers, Randy Moss, Blake Pusztai

Calculating the Numbers

Monday 11:00 to 12:00

Most data analysis involves calculations. Sums, averages, running totals, custom aggregations, string functions… What metrics and operations matter to you? How do you use Tableau to get the calculations you want? What do you want to do in Tableau that doesn’t seem possible today?

Tableau Organizers: Robin Stewart, Ross Bunker, Bora Beran, Jun Kim

Your Voices On Enterprise Features 

Monday 4:00 to 5:00

Have you ever wanted to share a feature request directly with our development team but couldn’t? Have you ever had brilliant ideas that could make your journey of deploying tableau to your entire organization easier? Please join our development team members to share your ideas and insights on Tableau futures for the enterprise and make your voice heard. 

Tableau Organizers: Neelesh Kamolkar, Elain Chen, Ashley Jaschke, Blake Pustai

Mobile

Tuesday 9:45 to 10:45

Tableau's free mobile apps let you view, edit, and publish visualizations to a Tableau Server using an iPad or Android tablet. Where, when, and how do you use these apps? What prevents you from using them? What do you wish you could do with them? We'd love to hear your feedback on all aspects of our mobile offerings.

Tableau Organizers:   Robin Stewart, Brian Rice, Nick Hritsko, Paul Cardon, Ron Theis

Preparing data for analytics in Tableau

Tuesday 11:00 to 12:00

In any analytics project, getting the data ready for analysis is a huge part of the actual work.  Extensive time can be spent collecting the data from multiple sources, cleaning and reshaping each data set, combining the different data sets, and, finally, optimizing the results to provide reasonable query performance.  Join the round table and discuss what you do to prepare your data and what Tableau can do to make this process easier and save you time. 

Tableau Organizers: Jun Kim, Dan Cory

New View Types and Interactivity

Tuesday 3:00 to 4:00

Would you like to see Tableau add new visualization options, or new interactive capabilities that will help you answer more types of questions.  If so, please join us for a round table discussion and where you can share your scenarios, requirements and suggestions.  We look forward to a lively discussion.  

Tableau Organizers: Sean Boon, Phil Naranjo

Statistics

Tuesday 4:15 to 5:15

Imagine the future of statistics in Tableau.

Discuss forecasting, hypothesis testing, integration with statistical packages and more.

Tableau Organizers: Scott Tennican, Anushka Anand, Tyler Martin, Jeff Booth

Presentation & Storytelling

Wednesday 9:45 to 10:45

Now you see and understand your data. How do you present your findings to others? Come discuss techniques and strategies for effectively communicating through your workbooks. This round-table discussion will focus on presentation-oriented topics: Storytelling, styling, color, typography and more.

Tableau Organizers: Maureen Stone, Robert Kosara, Nick Hritsko, Elizabeth Walkup, James Baker

Maps

Wednesday 11:00 to 12:00

Whether your favorite map is Minard's depiction of Napoleon's march on Russia, or a map that you've built based on your organization's data, come join a discussion about what you would like to see maps in Tableau do next.  Come share your scenarios and ideas in the open discussion on what you would like to be able to do with maps in Tableau.

Tableau Organizers: Sean Boon, Dan Cory

From Reading to Seeing: Changing the Analytical Culture of an Organization

Harte-Hanks : Going from 0 – 60 mph in Driving and Measuring Social Engagement

Does your brand understand where your customers are online and how they engage online as well as through traditional channels? This session provides value to those interested in visualizing and understanding the unique identity of their customer across channels to improve customer experiences.
 
Hear how leading brands, build out an omni-channel strategy to embrace a cutting edge social business model and break down business silos. We will share both traditional and new approaches that allow companies to amplify the knowledge of their customer base and develop a strategy to significantly expand their marketing strategy. This detailed analysis will also focus on the rise of influencers and how a brand can leverage them to their benefit through the buying cycle.
 

Leveraging Tableau to Dig Through Asset Management and Geospatial Data at Serco

When Serco needed to look at historical, geospatical data before Tableau, their team could spend 30 minutes to an hour just gathering and recording the information that was needed.  Now they have a dashboard that blends all of their historical asset tracking data, location status history data, work order status history data, and searchable, historical logs of those work orders. Today, they’re able to answer these previously nearly impossible questions--in a matter of minutes, using a single dashboard. It's been a game-changer.

Attendees will learn advanced uses of geospatical data (adding interactive Google Streetview into your dashboard); advanced filtering; advanced data blending; and how to blend data in such a way that when someone asks "What happened?" you can give them an answer in a couple minutes instead of hours.

Six Years as an Enterprise Standard: a Retrospective of Success at Cornell University

In this session, Cornell University, Tableau's second Server customer, looks back at six years of a successful enterprise deployment. Learn about the smart choices made up-front that helped this Ivy League institution through the initial phases of deployment and have allowed for continual sustained growth in adoption.  Hear what Cornell has found to be their keys to deployment – manageability, security, auditability, scalability, and the balance of local customizations allowing for agility.

After using Tableau Server for six years, Cornell shares their benefits, lessons learned, and expectations for the future, many based on the latest changes in Tableau and the growth in new data sources such as Big Data and cloud sources such as Workday.

Tableau Community Site Roundtable

Are you a frequenter of the Forums, Groups, Ideas pages on the Tableau website?

Tips and Tricks from a Tableau Jedi

Are you an advanced Tableau user wondering how to get to that next level of skill with Tableau? Wondering how to master the more sophisticated features of Tableau? Want to know how to impress your colleagues with amazing feats of analytics? In this session, we'll show you up to ten powerful tricks that will make you truly the master of your analytics.

Specifically you'll learn:

• Advanced use of Mark Types
• Mastering the Level of Detail
• Quick ways to get your point across
• A table calculation or two
• How to make Data Blending do more of the hard work

Advanced Mapping-Getting Spatial with Tableau

Data may tell you where something happens. Tableau can help you make maps to communicate spatially. See how Tableau’s geocoding works, learn how to make point-to-point maps, and explore alternate maps such as WMS and background images.

Development Roundtable Discussion

Tableau developers want to talk to you!  Our development team is eager to meet and discuss how Tableau can better help you see and understand data.   Come sign-up during the conference for these roundtable discussions designed for open conversation  led by members of the Tableau Development team on topics like:

• New view types that Tableau should support
• Making visualizations more interactive
• Mobile
• Preparing Data
• Maps
• Color
• Storytelling
• Statistics
• Computing the Numbers that Matter
• Security

Managing Tableau Server

Monday 9:45 to 10:45

Whether you manage Tableau Server for thousands of people or just a few, come discuss how we can improve Server to give you more control, save you time, and make Tableau deployment more successful in your organization.  Topics include adding and removing users, managing licenses, controlling permissions to data sources and workbooks, scheduling extracts and subscriptions, and any other management tasks you want to bring up.

Tableau Organizers: Jun Kim, Jeff Raymakers, Randy Moss, Blake Pusztai

Calculating the Numbers

Monday 11:00 to 12:00

Most data analysis involves calculations. Sums, averages, running totals, custom aggregations, string functions… What metrics and operations matter to you? How do you use Tableau to get the calculations you want? What do you want to do in Tableau that doesn’t seem possible today?

Tableau Organizers: Robin Stewart, Ross Bunker, Bora Beran, Jun Kim

Your Voices On Enterprise Features 

Monday 4:00 to 5:00

Have you ever wanted to share a feature request directly with our development team but couldn’t? Have you ever had brilliant ideas that could make your journey of deploying tableau to your entire organization easier? Please join our development team members to share your ideas and insights on Tableau futures for the enterprise and make your voice heard. 

Tableau Organizers: Neelesh Kamolkar, Elain Chen, Ashley Jaschke, Blake Pustai

Mobile

Tuesday 9:45 to 10:45

Tableau's free mobile apps let you view, edit, and publish visualizations to a Tableau Server using an iPad or Android tablet. Where, when, and how do you use these apps? What prevents you from using them? What do you wish you could do with them? We'd love to hear your feedback on all aspects of our mobile offerings.

Tableau Organizers:   Robin Stewart, Brian Rice, Nick Hritsko, Paul Cardon, Ron Theis

Preparing data for analytics in Tableau

Tuesday 11:00 to 12:00

In any analytics project, getting the data ready for analysis is a huge part of the actual work.  Extensive time can be spent collecting the data from multiple sources, cleaning and reshaping each data set, combining the different data sets, and, finally, optimizing the results to provide reasonable query performance.  Join the round table and discuss what you do to prepare your data and what Tableau can do to make this process easier and save you time. 

Tableau Organizers: Jun Kim, Dan Cory

New View Types and Interactivity

Tuesday 3:00 to 4:00

Would you like to see Tableau add new visualization options, or new interactive capabilities that will help you answer more types of questions.  If so, please join us for a round table discussion and where you can share your scenarios, requirements and suggestions.  We look forward to a lively discussion.  

Tableau Organizers: Sean Boon, Phil Naranjo

Statistics

Tuesday 4:15 to 5:15

Imagine the future of statistics in Tableau.

Discuss forecasting, hypothesis testing, integration with statistical packages and more.

Tableau Organizers: Scott Tennican, Anushka Anand, Tyler Martin, Jeff Booth

Presentation & Storytelling

Wednesday 9:45 to 10:45

Now you see and understand your data. How do you present your findings to others? Come discuss techniques and strategies for effectively communicating through your workbooks. This round-table discussion will focus on presentation-oriented topics: Storytelling, styling, color, typography and more.

Tableau Organizers: Maureen Stone, Robert Kosara, Nick Hritsko, Elizabeth Walkup, James Baker

Maps

Wednesday 11:00 to 12:00

Whether your favorite map is Minard's depiction of Napoleon's march on Russia, or a map that you've built based on your organization's data, come join a discussion about what you would like to see maps in Tableau do next.  Come share your scenarios and ideas in the open discussion on what you would like to be able to do with maps in Tableau.

Tableau Organizers: Sean Boon, Dan Cory

Hands on Visual Best Practices

Get hands-on applying visual best practices in this session. You’ll sit down at a table with several others and work together to turn vizes that need help into analytical masterpieces. Then, learn from the other teams as Tableau’s own visual best practices expert, Amanda Pype, contrasts and compares the methods of each team.

You’ll Learn:

• New ways to apply visual best practices
• How to practically improve visualizations
• New analytics methods and ways to display data

How City of Pittsburgh Drives Performance Management with Internal and External Transparency

City of Pittsburgh applies performance measurement data for day-to-day management decisions in a $500 million organization to foster problem-solving collaborations among internal city departments, external community groups, and external non-profit organizations. Organizational change is difficult enough, but is it possible to use data transparency to accelerate the ability of departmental leaders to manage for performance? City of Pittsburgh's Mayor Ravenstahl initiated a Management and Performance System (PittMAPS) in 2007. Each month, data is delivered by spreadsheets from fifteen operating departments. But what does all this data mean, and how can it influence government behavior, budgeting and public policy choices?

In this session, you’ll learn how visualizations of internal data pushed both entrenched and new department heads to desire to operate differently, and how access to operating data shifted the conversations between the City's customers and community groups from complaints to positive two-way communication. This session will discuss how logic and prioritization fit into internal management decision-making for $80 million in capital project spending, and the effectiveness of the Mayor's dashboard from function, technology, and management leadership perspectives.

Watch this session online as a webinar.