Schedule

Presented in English.

Have you ever wondered how best to structure data for analysis? How does data structure impact what type of calculation to use? Should some calculations be performed before being brought into Tableau? How can you visualize missing data? We’ll tackle these questions by bringing together all of these concepts in a common and real world example – customer lifecycle analysis.

Presented in English.

Our mission at Tableau is to let you see and understand your data the way you want no matter where your data is. When it comes to the cloud, Tableau is all about flexibility as we help you with your own journey. In this session, we will provide you with an overview of all Tableau’s Cloud offerings.

Presented in English Only.

Wondering how Tableau Server scales in your own environment? Ever been mystified by the process of parsing Server log files? In this session, we will cover two tools that will help you better plan your Tableau Server environment as well as know how to troubleshoot when issues arise. With TabJolt, you'll learn:

- Capabilites of TabJolt, an externally released "point and run" performance load testing tool designed to work with Server

- How to analyze your performance results and make capacity planning decision

With LogShark, you'll learn how to:

- Examine the pain points of manually analyzing logs

- Parse logs, structure log data in a Tableau-friendly format, and visualize log data in Tableau

Presented in German.

If you're still learning your drags from your drops, and your dimensions from your measures, this session is for you. Learn the fundamentals of Tableau, including how to connect to data, answer statistical questions, build maps, and apply some table calculations in a dashboard you can take with you at the end of the session.

Presented in German.

If you're in search of more end-user interactivity in your dashboards, this session is for you. Parameters allow you to create user inputs that can be used to adjust measures, swap dimensions, hide worksheets, build conditional logic, and much more. Come learn the basics of parameters from the ground up, and even a few sophisticated parameter use cases.What you will learn:
- What a parameter is
- Simple uses of parameters such as moving averages, what-if analysis, adjusting KPIs, and top N filters
- Sophisticated uses of parameters such as swapping fields within a chart and swapping charts within a dashboard

Presented in English.

Want to design outside the box? Tableau's Show Me is fabulous but sometimes you need to deliver something more specific. In this session, we will explore the multitude of chart types that are possible in Tableau, but aren't considered "defaults." Come learn how to build a control chart, an interactive calendar, a pareto chart, sparklines, a slope graph and a donut chart (if you must). We will also examine some examples of popular chart types today in various publications, and how we can create them in Tableau.

Presented in English.

Has learning SQL, MDX or Python been on your bucket list for years? In this session, you will be introduced to the wonderful coder-free world of calculated fields, quick table calculations and the analytics pane. By the end of this session, you'll look and feel like a calculation magician, without any need to shell out for code academy.

Presented in German Only.

Do you want to take Tableau adoption at your organization to the next level? Come to this session and learn about the key role IT has in promoting enterprise-wide collaboration and governance based on business value. We will share the insights and detail best practices formulated during implementations at data-driven enterprises. We will finish off by focusing on what is around the corner for IT in the roadmap.

Presented in German.

Analyzing sensor data can be overwhelming. How should you structure the IoT (Internet of Things) data? How do you create an overview monitor? How do you know when a certain value is in a critical state? We'll use industry data to demonstrate:

- Why visualizing your sensor data is key to monitoring

- The use of Tableau's analytic functions to find outliers and clusters within your IoT data

- How to create a dashboard that shows you the big picture while allowing you to drill down using dashboard actions

Presented in English.

Ever wish you could automate some of the mundane tasks you have to deal with each day? With TabCmd you can. In this session, we'll show you how to get started with TabCmd and how to use it to automate tasks related to Tableau Server or Online content, data and users.

Presented in English.

With so many options of what to build and how to design in Tableau, it can sometimes feel daunting to be assigned the task of implementing a corporate standard. In this session, we'll cover how to create a unified look and theme across dashboards in Tableau Desktop, Tableau Server and Mobile Devices. Learn shortcuts to formatting in Desktop and even how to customise your Tableau Server interface. 

Presented in English,

Find our what are the corner stones to successfully change from a reporting-driven business intelligence set up to a self-service BI environment and how can Tableau support in this transition. Specifically, this session will answer the following questions:

- How to define & setup dashboards & reports that help transform to a data driven company?

- What may be a good organizational set up to support the transition?

- Which steps are required?

Presented in English.

One of the most powerful new features in Tableau is cross-database joins, which gives you two methods of data integration: data blending and cross database joins. In this session, you'll learn advanced data blending techniques, an overview of cross database joins, and the situations where each technique should be used. To get the most out of this session, you should have a basic knowledge of data blending, joins, and basic calculations.

Presented in English.

Tableau makes exploring your data easy, but what do you do when that data is locked away behind a web service? Is exporting all of your data the only hope? With Web Data Connectors in Tableau, you can now unlock these sources and bring your precious data into Tableau easily from both internal and external web services. Web Data Connectors let you connect to and refresh web data sources by writing some custom code. In this session we'll walk through how these connectors work, how they integrate with Tableau, and look at some real world examples. We'll even write a simple connector and take you through the steps to build, debug, and share the final connector.

Presented in German.

With over three billion active social media users, establishing an active presence on social media networks is becoming increasingly essential in getting your business front of your ideal audience. These days, more and more consumers are looking to engage, connect and communicate with their favorite brands on social media. Adding social media to your customer-centric data strategy will help boost brand awareness, increase followership, drive traffic to your website and generate leads for your sales funnel. In 2017, no organization should be without a plan that actively places their brand on social media, and analyzes their social media data. Once you’ve started diving into social media analytics, how do you bring it to the next level? This session covers a customer-centric data strategy for scaling a social media data program.

Presented in English.

Table calculation or LOD expression? This session will provide you a framework for making the choice. We will cover relevant parts of the calculation pipeline, performance implications, and the suitability for the scenario at hand. And, of course, we'll use real world examples to illustrate each of these points.