Opening
Keynote
Andy
Cotgreave takes the stage…
Attendees
arriving from all over the UK, Europe and in to the Middle East and Africa (yes
there was a viz to prove that!)
James
Eiloart – Extending Our Senses, Unleashing the Human Intellect with Tableau
Making
discoveries with data is what making working with data so exciting
Neil
DeGrasse-Tyson describes discovery using the metaphors of light – what if we
could look through infra-red or night-vision
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Tolame
in Ancient Egypt sees that stars are moving across the night sky and therefore
assume everything is rotating round the Earth. He was limited by technology
that couldn’t test his theory further.
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17th
Century – two dutch inventory use a convex lens and concave lens in the same
tube. They just invented the Telescope
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Later
in that century – Galileo turns the telescope to the night’s sky. Technology
helps the findings and discoveries grow even further
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1920s
– US Prohibition kicks in – Hubble discovers stars are spread across the
universe. Hubble had the same data set (the night’s sky) but he had the
technology to support his discoveries to see the infinite (discuss!!) expanse
Francois
Ajenstat – new in v9 – Smart Meets Fast
Faster
performance, smart maps, LoD expressions, data preparation and New Server &
Online
The
developments keep coming!
Tableau 9.0
adopted 70% faster than 8.2 (the Mac and R release!)
Tableau Online
‘Analytics in the Cloud’
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SAML
support, SSL Connectivity, SSAE-16
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Live
DB Connectivity
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Online
Sync
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Custom
Logos, Embedding
Tableau
Online – is Tableau Server but just a hosted version so it gives you online
authoring too (desktop in your browser)
For
on-premise synchronisation – there is now the ability to sync to the premise
rather than having to go to the cloud for each update
Tableau 9.1
updates that are coming
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Enterprise
– 2-way SSL, Sync Active Direcotry on a Schedule, Auto Update (update your
desktop)
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Data
– SAP Improvements (SAP HANA Single-Sign-On, Prompts, SAP BW Extracts), Support
for Google Cloud SQL & Microsoft Azure DW, Adding a Web Data Connector
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Analytics
– Updates to the Analytic pane
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Mobile
– 9.1 app update will be a big step forward
Web
Connector to Google Sheets, Facebook stats etc opens up a whole load of
possibilities for new visualisation and analysis. Allows Tableau to link in to
Quandl too (Francois showing off Craig’s Quandl connector)
Analytics
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Median
with 95% Confidence Interval (listening to customer feedback)
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Calculation
Editor now in Filter dialogue box
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Allowing
the map to stop paning/zooming
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Radial
map selector – now showing meters / miles on the radial
Mobile
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Offline
sync allows you to explore your data on the move
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Your
favourites will be offline sync’d by manual log-in but auto-updates coming in
later versions
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App
is a compliment to the server but the new features will only work with v9.0 or
v9.1
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