Sessions

This course is for all types of users, whether you're the lone data soldier, or delivering powerful analytics for a world-wide audience. This course will teach you the product, inside and out, cover best practices for creating visualizations, touch on dashboard design, and dig into perfecting some of the more advanced applications.

You'll come away with:

This course will also include involved testing of skills and knowledge of all areas covered through written, verbal, and demonstrated tests.

Instructor: Ty Alevizos and the Tableau Software Training Team
Track: Pre-Conference Workshops
Price: $350
Space is limited to 80 participants

This course is for Tableau Certified Professionals who want to take their skills to the next level. This course will focus heavily on demonstration techniques and in-depth knowledge of the application.

This course will also include involved testing of skills and knowledge of all areas covered through written, verbal, and demonstrated tests.

Instructor: Marc Rueter and the Tableau Software Training Team
Track: Pre-Conference Workshops
Requirement: Must already be a Tableau Certified Professional
Price: $350
Space is limited to 40 participants

Ninety percent of all business data analysis can be done using simple graphing techniques to discern meaningful patterns in data. The remaining 10%, which requires sophisticated statistical and financial analysis skills, are well addressed by available resources, but where are the resources that teach the skills needed by the rest of us? Even though these skills are easy to learn and apply with proper guidance, very few people involved in analyzing business data know them. This workshop provides a solution

This course is intended for all those whose work requires them to make sense of quantitative business data. This audience is much broader than financial analysts, or even analysts by any name. This course provides practical skills that are useful to managers at all levels and to anyone interested in keeping a keen eye on the business. Anyone who uses Excel or any of the many other business productivity tools used for data access, analysis, and reporting, will learn how to use them productively, perhaps for the first time.

You will learn to:

This course covers:

Instructor: Stephen Few
Track: Pre-Conference Workshops
Price: $350
Space is limited to 60 participants

Dashboards are an ideal means of sharing key findings with Tableau. Achieving great success with dashboards requires a variety of skills- communication, analysis, visual design, data management and Tableau expertise. This one-day session uses a case study approach, integrating lecture with hands-on experience.

Instructor: Stephen McDaniel
Track: Pre-Conference Workshops
Price: $350
Space is limited to 70 participants

CEO Christian Chabot will take you on a journey describing how some of the most disruptive innovations come from unexpected people and places – including Tableau. He'll demonstrate how the innovations behind Tableau's new technologies are shaping Tableau's future and the future of the fast analytics and visualization.

Reference lines and bands are invaluable tools in helping to describe your data – whether you are marking important boundaries or monitoring progress toward goals or thresholds. Bullet graphs are a special implementation which users reference lines and bands. In this session you will learn the basics, as well as some techniques in using reference lines, bands, and bullet graphs.

Instructor: Stephen Few
Track: Tableau 101

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 ten powerful tricks that will make you truly the master of your analytics. Specifically you'll learn:

Instructor: Marc Rueter
Track: Tableau Jedi

UPS uses Tableau as part of its tactical and strategic planning process. In a n industry where delivery time is critical, Tableau provides speed and data access that allows UPS to make game-time decisions and tune its operations as it receives new information.

In this session we'll cover:

Instructor: Chris Cushman, Dave Gorman and Martin Click
Track: Customer Success

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:

Instructor: Jock Mackinlay
Track: Innovation

Are you new to Tableau? Do you want to learn the best practices using the latest version of Tableau? This hands-on session will provide an overview of Tableau functionality. You'll learn how to:

Instructor: Ty Alevizos and the Tableau Software Training Team
Track: Hands-on Training

Big data…no big deal. Speed & performance…no problem. Can you collect and analyze data at the speed of life and impact your company's bottom line?

Find out how many companies have built their business strategy upon Vertica's real-time analytics platform and Tableau's analytics and visualization. Companies like Zynga, Playdom, HMetrix, Experian among many others deliver insights into their business - in real-time. The combination of Vertica and Tableau enable more people to access, analyze and visualize more data in more ways - faster.

Connecting Tableau to Vertica can be done in less than a minute via a tightly integrated connector. Query analysis and data processing are orders of magnitude faster in Vertica dramatically improving time to visualization. Vertica's unique real-time architecture enables concurrent data loading and analysis through Tableau so users can explore data and drive in-time analytics. Imagine the possibilities for you.

Instructor: Scott Howser
Track: Real World

Are you a beginner analyst wondering how to fully harness the power of Tableau? Or maybe you just want to know how to build views and slice and dice the numbers a bit quicker? In this session, we'll show you ten powerful tricks that will speed up your analysis in Tableau Desktop. Specifically you'll learn:

Instructor: Erin Easter and Wade Tibke
Track: Tableau 101

This session will explore how to maximize the use of Tableau against Essbase & Analysis Services cubes. We will cover calculations, filtering, and more. We will also discuss the differences between connecting to relational sources and multidimensional, as well as when/why to choose one over the other.

Instructor: Matt Higgins and Austin Dahl
Track: Jedi Master

What happens when the Tableau app doesn't let you do what you want it to? Do you have workbooks that are so big you've lost track of which sheets are on which dashboard, which fields are used, or even what connections there are? Are you curious as to how Tableau builds a file?

Andy Cotgreave, from the University of Oxford, answered yes to these questions, and discovered that opening the TWB file in a text editor is one answer: inside the TWB file is a world of XML wonders to be explored. This session will examine how the XML that is used to make a TWB file can be analysed and edited to automate several tasks not yet possible in Tableau Desktop. He will also demo an application that uses the XML to audit your workbooks, creating data dictionaries, connection lists, and worksheet-by-worksheet analysis.

Instructor: Andy Cotgreave
Track: Customer Success

Data visualization is regularly promoted for its ability to reveal stories within data, yet these "data stories" differ in important ways from more traditional forms of storytelling. Storytellers, especially online journalists, have increasingly been integrating visualizations into their narratives, in some cases allowing the visualization to function in place of a written story.

In this talk, we will explore the design space of this emerging class of visualizations. Drawing on case studies ranging from news media to visualization research, we will discuss visual and interactive devices that support storytelling with data, and identify common narrative patterns. In particular, we will highlight a central concern in the design of narrative visualizations: the balance between author-driven elements—providing narrative structure and messaging—and reader-driven elements—enabling interactive exploration and social sharing. The strategies discussed will suggest ways to present statistics in concert with narrative, potentially enhancing viewers' engagement with data.

Instructor: Jeff Heer
Track: Innovation

Learn from a former Tableau customer who has become a Tableau Professional Services consultant as he provides specific examples of lessons learned from the field. You'll hear numerous personal stories with every point supported by an illustrative example from his years of extensive experience training, advising and helping clients create project plans to leverage Tableau's visualization capability.

Attend and learn:

Instructor: Dan Murray
Track: Real World

Join Chris Stolte and his team of developers for another educational and entertaining session on using Tableau. One of the most popular sessions last year, you'll meet and hear directly from the Tableau developers. This year, they'll will be sharing tricks and tips on their favorite Tableau features and talking about new features being developed in the lab. A relaxed and fun chance to get to know the people behind the product.

Instructor: Chris Stolte and the Tableau Development Team
Track: General Session

Listen to a beautiful, true story about how using BI to give people clear feedback can translate into a more together company, better supplier and customer relations, and significant profit improvements. By the way, this is also a success story. Total Disc Repair has doubled their profits every year for the last 5 years.

In 2005 Total Disc Repair was a 4 year old company that had grown quickly to $2m in revenues but was generating only $50k in profit. They had a myriad of fundamentals that weren't visible and so weren't being controlled - they struggled to see the data. Initially they created a self-refreshing, live Excel dashboard for the 2 company directors, and had their first year where the directors knew exactly what was going on day-to-day in the key areas. But it was still just the directors and it was only in the key areas.

Attend and learn how:

Instructor: Todd Currie and Mel Stephenson
Track: Tableau 101

Is a solution only "enterprise" when it begins from the top down, or can it be something that people begin, organically, to start adopting and using in a variety of ways to meet the need? As more and more people adopt a tool and collaborate across an organization—is this not enterprise? In this case study Cindy and Karel Sedlacek will demonstrate specifics of Cornell's enterprise Tableau Server deployment.

In this session you'll learn:

Instructors: Dan Jewett and Cindy Sedlecek
Track: Tableau Jedi

Customer retention (or persistency as we call it) is a critical business driver for National Motor Club. Follow their analysis of customer retention, from basic data on customer, attributes, customer start date and end date, into a full retention visualization and analysis. You'll see how National Motor Club uses Tableau to identify relevant factors affecting customer retention.

You'll learn:

Instructor: Matt Krzysiak
Track: Customer Success

Learn about Tableau's new features in visual analysis. More information to come.

Instructor: Jock Mackinlay and Elissa Fink
Track: Innovation
Additional Session: Wednesday 9:45 am

Are you a confident user looking to take your Tableau experience to the next level? Do you find yourself wanting to dig deeper into your data, but aren't sure what to do next? In this hands-on session you will follow along as we show you how to maximize Tableau Desktop's analytic potential using different calculation techniques. You'll learn how to:

Instructor: Ross Bunker, Marc Rueter, and Ty Alevizos
Track: Hands-on Training

Ideally, marketing should feed and draw from all departments in any sales-driven organization. That means integrating disparate data, identifying key indicators, and extracting meaning from the information to drive sound, profitable customer interactions. We're doing that with Tableau, it's profitable, and we want to show you how we do it.

Attend and learn:

Instructor: Kevin Provost, Trask Rogers, and Dave Ward
Track: Real World

Visualize what's happening in your data by analyzing where it is happening. This session will cover a variety of techniques to enhance your Tableau mapping experience, features that will help provide your users with more geographic-based detail, and ways to apply mapping beyond the obvious.

Instructor: Jesse Gebhardt and Wilson Po
Track: Tableau 101

Strategic business decisions are frequently made on large, incomplete, inconsistent and/or abstracted data sets. Fiber Tower, a leading carrier for wireless backhaul, describes its use of Tableau for executive decision-making. By guiding the executive sponsors through a set of information visualization exercises, Fiber Tower built confidence not just in the initial decision but also in subsequent decisions based on the same methodology and underlying data sets. This inductive approach permits the organization to feel confident about the methodology and conclusions reached in decisions that are literally continental in size.

In this session you'll learn:

Instructor: Chuck Hooper and David Holmes-Kinsella
Track: Tableau Jedi

RBC Wealth Management transitioned how Tableau was used at their organization from a niche tool to a core platform, and in doing so created a new Business Intelligence delivery model. The model satisfied core BI reporting needs, and by using a rapid design and deployment model, they were able to eclipse the original project requirements in the first three months. The result was a major new reporting platform that addressed self-service needs for business users and has already resulted in tens-of-thousands of dollars in savings.

In this session we'll cover:

Instructor: Shawn Spott
Track: Customer Success

Tableau's 6.0 release will introduce a dramatically faster data engine. In this session, beta tester Richard Leeke will describe and demonstrate how performance improvements in the Tableau data engine can deliver faster and better analytical insights.

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Instructor: Richard Leeke
Track: Tableau Innovation

Organizations are experiencing an unprecedented explosion in data. Regulatory compliance makes discarding any corporate data difficult. Data devices, such as RFID tags, communication switches, and smart readers, are generating enormous volumes of data. Mixed among the mounds of repetitive and unremarkable data are those golden nuggets of information that could be a game changer for your business. How do you find those needles in the haystack? What technology is available today to support petabyte-sized databases that will allow business users unfettered access to mine and analyze that data at a reasonable cost?

It is equally critical to develop effective business practices and adopt new tools that embrace visual thinking and communication. Given today's ever-expanding volume of data and focus on corporate performance, data visualization becomes even more important. It enables customers to answer many questions such as: How effective are the analyses or business summaries that your group produces? How well do reports reflect the key relationships, bottlenecks, and value-drivers? How long does it take to get to the root cause analysis of important problems?

Wells Fargo successfully uses visualization on a 50TB Teradata EDW to successfully navigate the current changing economic conditions by understanding customer patterns and introducing the right products in the market.

Teradata-Tableau customers have adopted the joint solutions in their Revenue Management and Operations Research department to better utilize data from the Teradata EDW and have a clear visibility to their business situations and act effectively to minimize risks from challenges and capitalize on opportunities.

Attend and learn:

Instructor: Roger Mann
Track: Real World

In this engaging presentation, Stephen Dubner uses research from Superfreakonomics to address the following questions:

The Superfreakonomics presentation is even bolder, funnier, and more surprising than Freakonomics. From the rarefied corridors of academia to the grimiest street corners, Stephen Dubner will bring you stories inspired by engineers and astrophysicists, psychotic killers and emergency-room doctors, amateur historians and transgender neuroscientists. New and inspiring lessons abound from the 4 years of research that went into writing Superfreakonomics and Stephen Dubner will share the best of their findings with you.

In this session we'll cover:

Instructor: Matt Higgns and Molly Monsey
Track: Tableau Jedi

If you're like a lot of people, you regularly face new data sets, new formats and new ways of structuring data - spreadsheets, big databases and everything in between. You're asked to quickly understand the data, discover hidden gems, identify outliers and present findings back.

Come to this session and learn how Tableau sales consultants deal with the same situation: exploring new data. Fasten your seat belt – because you'll learn how marry best practices in data visualization with the power of Tableau to effectively accomplish these analytical tasks in a short time frame and to maximize insight. You'll:

Instructor: Marc Rueter
Track: Tableau Jedi

Making student achievement data easily available for teachers is key to promoting a data-driven approach to instruction. This session illustrates how Aspire Public Schools, a leading Charter Management Organization in California, created data tools in Tableau and leveraged Tableau Server to deliver reports to hundreds of our teachers to analyze their individual students' achievement and identify students' skills gaps. We discuss how we monitor our success and how we adjusted our approach to increase report usage and impact. You'll learn how to:

Instructor: Lynzi Ziegenhagen
Track: Customer Success

Using common elements found on the web, Ty will show you how to create extensions to your Tableau Server installation, including:

This course comes with a 100% portable and easily deployable external web application which acts as a reference build and functional template for the subjects in this session

Instructor: Ty Alevizos
Track: Innovation

You've heard about the great new capabilities being added in Tableau 6.0, and are just dying to get your hands on the beta release to start exploring. Well, there is no need to wait until you get home. This session is a hands-on lab where you will have the opportunity to learn about and play with several of the new features in the upcoming release.

Instructor: Dan Jewett and Erin Easter
Track: Hands-on Training
Additional Session: Wednesday 3:15 pm

For years, Spector360 has been used by over 50,000 companies for monitoring malicious activity and for forensic purposes. Today, SpectorSoft shines a bright light into productivity measurement by recording employees' application usage and web activity. They have seen customers use this activity feed for measuring resource productivity and optimization.

Companies using information technology to provide end user services can now see correlations between how people use their computers and financial performance metrics. For example, do customer service agents spending more time responding to social media inquiries have better customer retention rates? Does this vary for Facebook vs Twitter? By using Tableau with Spector360 data, clients can answer questions like this in addition to comparing individual performers to discover best practices.

Attend and learn:

Instructor: Mark India
Track: Real World

Come to this session to discover how the built in visualisations of Tableau, as well as table calculations can help you get a better understanding of your data and performance over time. As well as considering the standard visualisation techniques, we will also explore some less common methods of gaining insight over time series data including:

Instructor: Meredith Dicks
Track: Tableau 101

Come to this session and learn how to create sophisticated geographic analysis. We'll also review:

Instructor: Michael Kravec and Ross Perez
Track: Tableau Jedi

In today's overfilled market where the acquisition of competitors' customers is a key driver of revenue and market share growth, location can be a competitive advantage. Tableau proves to be a powerful tool in developing market planning strategies. Using a "real world" case study, this session will demonstrate how Tableau's maps and custom shapes can be used to create insightful visualizations. Custom shapes are pieced together to form dynamic choropleth maps that are easy to comprehend and provide an accurate view of current and potential customers. These maps aid in network planning as well as in the creation of regional marketing strategies.

Attendees will learn:

Instructor: Giedre Aleknonyte
Track: Customer Success

This session will introduce you to a number of the new analytic capabilities being added in Tableau 6.0 including new calculation options, parameters and cube improvements.

Instructor: Chris Stolte and Jock Mackinlay
Track: Innovation

This session will explore requirements and solutions for solving large-scale analytic problems. It will examine modern trends in the areas of platform, analytic databases, and ecosystems. It will also consider how new innovations can help solve complex analytic problems against vast data while meeting increasing demands to provide answers in real-time.

Instructor: Rick Glick
Track: Real World

Innovations in database technology, web architecture and information design are rapidly changing the business analytics landscape. Join Pat Hanrahan as he discusses Tableau's technology innovations and their impact on the industry today and in the future.

Instructor: Pat Hanrahan
Track: General Session

BI theorists and pundits give recommendations about rules you should follow when choosing and implementing BI. The advice may be good but often people who are actually practicing BI have completely different points of view. Please join Ron Powell, founder of BeyeNetwork and Associate Publisher and Editorial Director for Enterprise Applications Group at TechTarget, as he leads a panel of customers discussing the theory versus the practice of BI.

Joining Ron in this session will be:

Instructor: Ron Powell
Track: Tableau 101

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 smart strategies for creating more effective dashboards.

Instructor: Scott Sherman
Track: Tableau Jedi

Experian Automotive helps its customers increase market efficiency with cutting-edge vehicle statistics that help them make fact based decisions to better 'drive' their business initiatives. By incorporating visual analytics with traditional reporting, hundreds of millions of records can now be effectively analyzed to allow customers to quickly stay on top of changing business landscapes. Michael Ticsay will talk about factors to consider when incorporating 3rd party visual analytics into customer-facing deliverables. You'll hear how Experian Automotive architected their solution, and how it has affected their business.

Instructor: Michael Ticsay
Track: Customer Success

This session will introduce you to the changes being added in Tableau Server 6.0 including improvements in how to manage large numbers of users, performance, and additional interactivity in views and dashboards.

Instructors: Andrew Beers
Track: Innovation

You've heard about the great new capabilities being added in Tableau 6.0, and are just dying to get your hands on the beta release to start exploring. Well, there is no need to wait until you get home. This session is a hands-on lab where you will have the opportunity to learn about and play with several of the new features in the upcoming release.

Instructor: Dan Jewett and Erin Easter
Track: Hands-on Training
Additional Session: Wednesday 9:45 am

Ever thought about starting a Tableau User Group but not sure how to do it? Starting a user group requires time, effort, leadership, dedication, and vision. Ask almost any user group leader and they'll tell you it's all worth it.

Hear directly from some of the first Tableau user group leaders as they share their tips on:

You'll also hear from Tableau Marketing about how they can help you get your group started and support your efforts.

Instructor: Tableau Software
Track: Real World

Video and images all have happy homes on the web… with Tableau Public, now data does too! In this session, Ellie and Ross will take you on a tour of Tableau Public: we'll go over the basics of sharing online and best practices for visualizing on the web. We'll show you some of the best vizes that are live on the web and talk about lessons learned from the release of Tableau Public.

In this session you'll learn:

Instructor: Ellie Fields and Ross Perez
Track: Tableau 101

Learn how to shape your data optimally for Tableau - including how to integrate with Excel, PowerPivot and other data schemas. Microsoft has a number of data technologies that Tableau works with. In this session you will learn about PowerPivot and the new SharePoint 2010 capabilities and how Tableau can work with this data. Additional Microsoft data technologies will be explored.

Instructor: Austin Dahl
Track: Tableau Jedi

Supporting software in a Customer Care setting tends to be an extremely fluid and a constantly changing environment. Intuit uses visualization techniques to allow managers to get to rich insights in a rapid manner that help in performance management, build priorities for software bug fixes, and provide the ability to provide a superior customer experience.

In this session, Sanjay Ramanujan will discuss the use of Tableau in Customer Care at Intuit, including:

Instructor: Sanjay Ramanujan
Track: Customer Success

People think visually. However, today's information workers don't always know the best ways to optimize their analytics to take advantage of our natural visual interpretation skills. In this session, Juice Analytics will be presenting practical guidance that helps people make their analyses easier to understand and comprehend. Some of the topics we'll be discussing include information layout and workflow, information visualization, chart selection, and styling.

We'll show real-life examples to demonstrate how applying these best practices enables charting laymen to work like visualization ninjas. Juice Analytics is a globally recognized expert in crafting information applications that help people understand and act on your data.

Instructor: Ken Hilburn and Ron LeSieur
Track: Innovation

Did you know one out of every six customers registered to attend the conference this year works in education? It's true. Recently we had an overwhelming response from our customers to start an Education User Group - well we did and now we've added an Education Special Interest Group session to the conference.

This session is exclusively for those working in Education. You'll hear from some of our top customers in education and have the opportunity to share, network and learn from others in this market.

Instructor: Tableau Software
Track: Real World

The Information Age has largely failed us. It has buried us in data that we have scarce means to understand or use. In many respects, the Information Age has made us stupid by giving us the illusion of being informed when we in fact understand less than before and by propagating the myth that computers can do our thinking for us, resulting in a whole generation that has turned off its brain. Rather than using technology to elevate ourselves, we have allowed it to lower us to the level of machines, reduced to programmed responses rather than reflective thinking. An Information Age worthy of the name will not be ushered in by technology, but by people. Technology can assist us, but it cannot take the lead. It is up to us to take a stand.

To make this happen, we must focus on design—the art and science of making things work really, really well to do things that really, really matter. In particular, a design mindset is needed by software companies to create effective data sensemaking tools and it's needed by each of us to clearly communicate the stories that we find in our data to those who need to be informed.

The time to take a stand is now. The opportunity won't last forever.

Instructor: Stephen Few
Track: General Session

Creating successful dashboards that your managers, colleagues and customers will rely upon requires more than Tableau expertise - communication, analysis, visual design, and data management skills all play vital roles. In this presentation, Stephen will illustrate how to create great dashboards by maximizing the features of Tableau in designing optimal dashboards and overcoming real world barriers to cooperation and approval.

Instructor: Stephen McDaniel
Track: Tableau 101

In this session, you'll learn how to plan for, install and manage your Tableau Server implementation. We'll cover:

Instructor: Chuck Hooper
Track: Tableau Jedi

Mitchell 1 is finalizing a two-year data structuring and analysis effort of transactional automotive repair data. This session will cover how Mitchell 1 used visualization in Tableau Desktop to introduce data sets not normally used in the auto industry. The session will also cover how Mitchell 1 is deploying Tableau Server to provide the industry a portal into automotive trends and activities.

Attend and learn how to:

Instructor: Jon Vance
Track: Customer Success

Hear Stanford Professor Pat Hanrahan and key developers discuss the trends in analytical databases. More information to come.

Instructor: Pat Hanrahan
Track: Innovation

Learn all of the insider tricks to perfecting your Tableau dashboard. Trying to get the best fonts, colors, lines, borders, sizing, scrunching and publishing can send anyone over the edge. In this session, we will teach you how to do it all quickly. Plus, learn how to publish to the web and share your masterpiece.

Instructor: Ellie Fields, Ross Perez and Molly Monsey
Track: Hands-on Training

Is there a topic you would like to discuss with others or a Special Interest Group you would like to get together. This is your opportunity to let us know what you want. We have an open session and we want to hear from you about what you'd like to see.

Stop by the conference information desk and tell us if there is a Special Interest Group you would like to suggest or a topic you would like to nominate. The one with the most votes wins!

Tableau will help facilitate the discussion and make sure we get the appropriate leaders and panelists in the room.

Instructor: TBA
Track: Real World

Back by popular demand! See Jock Mackinlay and Erin Easter give live, real-time advice for improving users' actual data visualizations, reports and dashboards. There's nothing better than learning by example and seeing how small changes can lead to big improvements.

You'll learn:

Instructor: Stephen Few, Jock Mackinlay, and Erin Easter
Track: Tableau 101

Progressive uses Tableau in its Marketing Analytics group to analyze large sets of sales and customer data and make actionable recommendations for the business.

In this session, Ujval Ghandi, Manager of Data Analysis at Progressive will cover:

Instructor: Wade Tibke and Ujval Gandhi
Track: Tableau Jedi

Healthcare organizations spend more than half of their operating expenses on people; yet know the least about their workforce's behaviors and patterns. In this session you'll find out how Providence Health & Services was able to leverage data they were already capturing to help them understand and better manage their workforce and develop long-term strategies to attract and retain the best talent.

Attend this session and learn how to:

Instructor: Bonnie Elliott
Track: Customer Success

Tableau 6.0 will change the way you work with your data. Early previews have called it "smoking fast and able to handle loads of data like a dream". Learn about the new technology and resulting capabilities behind the upcoming release as it relates to high performance with large datasets, integrating data from multiple sources, and other data modeling topics.

Instructor: Chris Stolte and Matthew Eldridge
Track: Innovation

Is there a topic you would like to discuss with others or a Special Interest Group you would like to get together. This is your opportunity to let us know what you want. We have an open session and we want to hear from you about what you'd like to see.

Stop by the conference information desk and tell us if there is a Special Interest Group you would like to suggest or a topic you would like to nominate. The one with the most votes wins!

Tableau will help facilitate the discussion and make sure we get the appropriate leaders and panelists in the room.

Instructor: TBA
Track: Real World

To quote Garr, "Design is a big, big deal. We all have a responsibility to understand its potential and its power. You do not need to be a designer — but you do need to become more design sensitive or 'design mindful.' Hear Garr Reynold's perspective on design as it relates to communicating information.

Instructor: Garr Reynolds
Track: General Session

This course is designed exclusively for Tableau Partners. Whether you're a reseller, referral partners or OEM partner, join this workshop to learn how to maximize your and your customers' success with Tableau. You'll learn key selling techniques, ways how to identify optimal opportunities, principles for giving useful demo's, and information about the competitive landscape.

You'll come away with:

Instructor: David Salinger and Matt Higgins
Track: General Session