TC18 - Devs on Stage

Tableau have a 1,000 developers working across the product suite

Dashboards - Amanda Luthy

Transparent background on visualisations in dashboards. Transparent Layout Containers too (now called zones) 2018.3

Toggle zone visibility - like the former hamburger menu pop-out 2018.3

Vector tile maps - more responsive mapping.

New background maps - topographic and satellite styles to build on traditional Tableau mapping

Navigation buttons - no more workarounds. Work even with hidden tabs (a favourite annoyance of most users). Can choose custom images 2018.3

Export to PowerPoint (excuse me whilst I cry a little - not with glee) 2019.1

Collaboration- Alex Vertin

Public - 1.5 m vizzes, 1.5 billion views

Add Attribution to Tableau Public

New Alert side panel on Server - add yourself to an existing alert 2019.1

New mobile app - biometric authentication, project navigation, interactive offline previews (scrolling, highlighting and tooltips) 2019.1

Automatic phone layouts - can still edit yourself 2019.1

Data Model - Swati Srivastav

The challenge of Tableau forming single tables often makes for large extracts and slower extracts (2018.3)

Multiple Table extracts start to solve this. HyPer can hold tables separately.

Security - encryption at rest

Drag and drop file load in web edit, federated joins and custom sql

LinkedIn Sales Navigator

Developer - Keshia Rose

Extension gallery updates

Extension API updates - write back updates

Support for webhooks - push notifications for events on server (ie failed extracts), can send feeds in to Slack / Convo etc will include snapshot

Analytics - Denny Bromley

Filtered nested sorting (sorting in a single column or a single row but both of the sorts persist)

Parameter actions - parameters filled by any of the action types (creates a lot more dynamic analysis). Time calculations - more interactive and simple once parameter actions set up

Set actions - sets hold multiple values where as parameters just hold one. Add elements to sets by just clicking. Click on one element to drill further (ie just one section of the treemap or table to drill in to a hierarchy further)

UBS - Deploying Tableau at Scale

Paul Banoub

Runs a CoE (Centre of Excellence)

Self service model

Scalability

Ability to handle a growing amount of work

Scalability involves performance, maintenance and expenditure

14,000 unique monthly users on server now compared to starting this on a box under his desk

Infrastructure and Tableau Architecture

Online gives you scalability but you lose control of some elements (Postgres database)

48 core environment (v10.3)

Different environments: Production, DR, UAT, Engineering, alpha, beta and Tabjolt / tabmon/ Viz alerts

Build the relationships with the infrastructure departments to get the best of their support and facilities

Upgrades are great but increase require more hardware. You can disable if you need to.

Keep close to Postgres, you will be rewarded to do so

Use open source tools to help avoid harder challenges (like tabjolt / log shark / lumberjack etc). Tableau Replayer - can push historical logs back in to a server environment to show what has happened and why

Splunk to aggregate logs to then do the analysis and not be at risk of handling sensitive data

Service & Support

Use an appropriate service model - how much self-service vs governed?

Self service best for scalability as lowest central demand

Focus on talent recruitment and keep up with R&D

Beware of key dependencies

Efficiency - get the help requests to the right place - servicenow for tickets, Tableau Doctor for the harder stuff and forums for the questions

Users can not be trusted

Housekeeping - delete after 100 days, old subscriptions binned, long running extracts

Training and Community

Create a community with whichever social hub your company offers

Use Tableau champions as an extension of your team

Beware cultural challenges

Vendor & Costs

Customer success program pushing UBS to do more as much as UBS pushes Tableau

Understand your Total Cost of Ownership

Understand the other tools so you know whether they are good or not and why

TC18 - Opening Keynote

Tableau prep developments
Data roles - built in definitions for email address, URL (all within one click on the smart recommendation icon).
Custom data role - create your own rules
Recommendations for fixing data (filter or fix)
Highlighting the flow - highlights where changes have been made based on the field you select

R and Python scripts able to be run in Prep (ie sentiment scoring)

Tableau Prep Conductor - add-on to server to publish and administer flows. Sits in alongside the existing server.

Data Modelling

Choose source table and then choose ‘related tables’.

As long as Primary and Other kres are set-up then the rest of the dataset will be formed

Tableau will automatically work out which table to pick so it avoids duplication

Measures are part of the table of origin rather than just being pushed together

Will determine the join type to use (reducing the need to scaffold)

Natural Language

Ask Data coming in 2019.1

Type in what you want to analyse / just ask your question and Tableau will form the visualisation which can then ask further questions of