Techniques for Exploring New & Unfamiliar Data
Monday, July 21st - 10:00 AM - Cascade II
Speaker: Marc Rueter
Every day Tableau consultants see lots of customer data - spreadsheets, big databases and everything in between. They have to be able to quickly understand the data, discover hidden gems, identify outliers and present their findings back to customers. Marc has married best practices in data visualization with the power of Tableau to effectively accomplish these tasks in a short time frame while maximizing insight. In this rapid-fire, fasten your seat belts session because Marc will reveal his favorite techniques for exploring data with Tableau. You’ll learn how to:
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Quickly get a feel for contents of the data set including outliers and exceptions |
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Use a handful of Tableau views to discover and explore |
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Correct, extend and general improve the data for better analysis and presentation |
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Designing Great Visualizations
Monday, July 21st - 10:00 AM - Alki
Speaker: Jock Mackinlay
There are many examples of great visualizations. Each exploits the power of the human visual system for a specific task. A review of these examples can teach us how to design great visualizations for our individual tasks. In this talk, you’ll learn:
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Fundamental principles for designing effective data views for yourself and others |
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What years of research by psychologists, statisticians and others have taught us about designing great visualizations |
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Common mistakes and myths to avoid |
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The Zen of Visual Analysis
Monday, July 21st - 11:00 AM - Alki
Speaker: Chris Stolte
The inspiration for Tableau was the desire to build software that truly supports the way people reason about data visually. The key to visual analysis is the ‘cycle of visual analysis’ – the iterative process of asking questions, creating pictures, discovering new hypothesis, and foraging for data. In this talk, you’ll learn:
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What the ‘cycle of visual analysis’ is and how to effectively reason about data visually |
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What your software can do to support effective Q&A sessions of data |
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How to become one with your data |
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Dashboarding
Monday, July 21st - 1:30 PM - Cascade II
Speakers: Scott Sherman, Jock Mackinlay
Dashboards are a powerful way to combine multiple data views into a single display. They can be used to monitor important data or to dynamically compare and interact with a collection of visualizations. In this session you’ll learn:
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Best practices for creating dashboards |
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Tips and tricks for getting the most out of dashboards using filters, sheet links, automatic layout, and more |
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An overview of the new dashboard features |
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Put Your Data on the Map
Monday, July 21st - 1:30 PM - Alki
Speakers: Dan Jewett, Jaron Waldman
Everyone has looked up driving directions, but have you ever thought about putting your data on a map? Maps provide instantly recognizable context for your data and let you perform comparisons across an important dimension of many datasets – location. You don’t have to be a cartographer, a geographic expert, or even know the difference between latitude and longitude. Tableau makes it all natural and easy to work with maps. In this session, Tableau & our partner PlaceBase will discuss the value of using geography to help with your data displays. You’ll learn:
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The fundamentals of geographic analysis |
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Basic principles for designing useful data maps |
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Strategies for incorporating geographic data into your analytics |
Introduction to Tableau Server: Sharing & Collaboration
Monday, July 21st - 2:30 PM - Cascade I
Speakers: Dan Jewett, Nurud Mohamed
Don’t keep those great views of your data all to yourself. Share your brilliance! The Tableau Server is all about letting others have access to what you’ve created and a place for them to build upon your work - sharing and collaboration. In this session, designed for those new to Tableau Server, we will discuss several of the ways the Tableau Server can help your organization collaborate in understanding your data. You will learn:
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What can be shared on the Tableau Server |
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How to find interesting things others have shared |
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Some tips for creating views that enhance the sharing experience |
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Embedding Tableau in your Portals, Websites & Applications
Monday, July 21st - 2:30 PM - Cascade II
Speaker: Andrew Beers
Tableau Server is a web-based application allows users to share and collaborate around analyses created by Tableau Desktop. Organizations have built or deployed other web-based applications to manage and share other important data. These applications and their data can often be important context for understanding an analysis of business-critical data. This session will demonstrate how web application owners will be able to:
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Embed Tableau Server views into SharePoint portals and other web applications |
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Customize the content of embedded views |
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Handle authentication from custom web applications |
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How Tableau Eats Its Own Dog Food: Inside Tableau With Tableau
Monday, July 21st - 4:00 PM - Alki
Speaker: Tom Walker
Join this session for an “insider’s view” as to how Tableau staff use Tableau software in their everyday jobs. Led by Finance & Operations VP Tom Walker, Tableau team members will show you exactly how the Tableau team takes their real-life, real-time operational data and visualizes it for better decision-making. You could see examples including Customer Service, Technical and IT Support, Marketing Campaigns, Sales Analysis – even Development Software Bug Tracking.
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Get an insider’s view of how the Tableau insiders use and deploy Tableau |
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Learn how Tableau shares its data across the company safely and securely |
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Hear real-life examples of how visual analytics improves and speeds decision-making |
Using Tableau with Cubes
Tuesday, July 22nd - 10:00 AM - Cascade I
Speakers: Chris Stolte, Marc Rueter
In this session, Chris Stolte and Marc Reuter will discuss how Tableau works with cube data sources ranging from the basics of how Tableau interprets cubes to the tips and tricks of advanced usage. Plan on a highly interactive course where you’ll not only hear great advice but see it in action. You’ll learn:
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How Tableau interprets and understands data stored in cubes |
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The key differences between relational and cube data sources |
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How to effectively work with levels, hierarchies, and attributes |
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How to construct filters, non-uniform drilldowns, and asymmetric views of cube data |
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How totals and calculations work with cubes |
Extreme Makeover: Viz Edition
Tuesday, July 22nd - 10:00 AM - Alki
Speakers: Stephen Few, Jock Mackinlay, Erin Easter
We can all use an editor to communicate more effectively. Learn as Stephen Few, Jock Mackinlay, and Erin Easter review actual data visualizations from conference attendees. The goal is to recognize good visual analysis techniques and to offer constructive real-time advice on how to improve and enhance data visualization. In this session, you will:
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Learn what works based on real-world examples |
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Discover how experts evaluate visualizations – and what elements they look for |
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Hear the thought processes as experts work to improve visualizations |
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Escaping the Excel Syndrome
Tuesday, July 22nd - 11:00 AM - Cascade I
Speaker: Ty Alevizos
Are you swearing by Excel or swearing at Excel? If you like most people, you’re doing both. Join Ty as he demonstrates how to use Tableau and Excel in complementary ways so that you get more from both. Ty will show you how to use Tableau for key data analytics features that you may be forcing Excel to handle. You’ll learn:
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How to prepare your Excel files prior to connecting |
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How to swear off of Excel Pivot tables – and move over to Tableau |
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How to use Tableau’s excel plug-in for reshaping data - Reshape, remodel, or simply re-excel it |
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