Wow! What a week! I can't believe that Tableau Conference 2018 has already come and gone. New Orleans was such an amazing city and I loved every minute of learning, celebrating and eating all the Cajun food I could find with my fellow Data Rockstars.
Read my recap first and/or take a look at some specially published vizzes, included in my conference presentation below
Conference Recap
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| Checking out the classroom! |
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| "I'm going to be on this stage for 8 hours" |
The festivities began for me on Sunday, when after a quick flight from DC, filled with Tabloids and other conference attendees, I spent a few minutes getting oriented to the conference center, visiting the training rooms and meeting up with my fellow colleagues from all over the world. After all was settled, a few of us fared the mile walk from the convention center to Jackson Square (the heart of the French Quarter) and ate a delicious creole fare at Muriel's.
Bright and early Monday morning, I hunkered down in my classroom at the convention center, and set out to teach Desktop 302: Advanced Visualizations. I was grateful for an engaged and excited group of students and some amazing room assistants to lend to a fantastic day of learning. After a full day of training, I enjoyed relaxing at the Welcome Reception a celebrating a great kick-off with fellow trainers.
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| Some of the Tableau Training Team dressed for success! |
On Tuesday and Wednesday, I was fortunate to both assist and learn from some fellow presenters in a few hands-on-training sessions. It's always a blast to be a fly on the wall in other presenter's sessions, and to get to know a few attendees along the way.
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| Tableau Training Team before Data Night Out! |
Wednesday was my favorite day. It started with Devs on Stage, where some incredible new features were announced. I cannot wait to get my hands on set-actions and parameter actions - the interactivity and discovery potential these two features alone are going to bring to the product is going to be so fantastic. Of course, Wednesday night was incredible. I cannot think of a more amazing place to host a massive party than the Superdome! We got to enter through the Saint's tunnel straight onto the field. I spent the night socializing with colleagues from afar, eating more southern food and jamming to some great Nawlins' tunes.
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| Walking into DNO through the Saints Tunnel. |
Thursday brought the week to a close, for me. After a final Hands-On-Session, I had the pleasure of assisting the certification team in checking people in, and wishing them good luck, on the certification exams. I am always in awe of the people who take the step to prove their knowledge and take that next step of earning their certification at the end of conference. I am a proud Tableau Certified Professional myself, and am excited to rock my new "Certifiably Tableau" swag.
A few new Vizzes to share
Ok....last but not least...I wanted to share a few new views I've recently published to my Tableau Public Profile. Each of these were featured in my Desktop 302 class on Monday, and demonstrate some of the views we discuss in that class. I had a lot of fun creating these examples and hope you can gather some inspiration from them too.
1. Radial Distance Map of New Orleans
There was so much to do in New Orleans and such little time! I enjoyed adding a few hot-spots to a simple data-set pre-conference, and using a Radial distance calculation to see how close/far they were from the convention center and some other spots around town.
2. Bump Chart of 2018 AP Top 25 Ranked College Football Teams
Several of my all-time favorite Bump Charts are created by the talented Matt Chambers (Check his blog: http://www.sirvizalot.com/). I recently took my own spin on a glance at the comparative shifts in rank over time which are so easily explored in this fun view.
3. Sparklines of Consumer Price Index
I've always loved using sparklines as a way to view volatility in metrics. Another one of my favorite vizzes is an exploration of the "Cost of Christmas Dinner" by Andy Kreibel. This exploration of fluctuation in the items tracked by Consumer Price Index is my spin on this awesome view.
Hope these fun views peak your interest in these great chart types. Want to learn how these views (and more!) are created, attend a training class: Tableau.com/classroom.
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