Tableau TUG recordings (English)

Community Spotlight: Professor Eric Lacy. Michael McCusker presents 'From Idea to Extension: Creating Custom Viz Extensions with Claude'

Topic 1: Loupe for Tableau | Understand why KPI changes happen Speaker: Boris Bakhvalov Loupe is an AI analyst that lives inside a Tableau dashboard. It does not build vizzes. It answers one question, why did this number change, by querying the real data source, and then says whether the cause is a data-load problem or a real business change, showing the query it ran so a human can check it. In th...

🎮 PLAYER ONE, PRESS START 🕹️MAIN QUEST: GAMES NIGHT COMMUNITY PROJECT Dawn Harrington, Will Sutton, Louis Yu – Games Night Viz Community Project leaders are giving us the inside scoop on the Games Night Viz Community Project: how to play, how to participate, and how to create your own game-inspired viz. 👾SIDE QUEST: PUBLIC + PREP Sean Campbell gives us a sneak peek at the future of Tableau Prep...

"Hey Tableau is NOT just for Retail Analytics!" by Rob Tullo Using a large (1.5M rows x 16K variables) public data set from the US Sentencing Commission, let's look at the likely outcomes for actual sentencing time based on case attributes such as the jurisdiction, the crimes committed, and criminal history. Rob will talk about the dataset, the wrangling that went with it (thank you...

Data + Women: US West Coast is excited to welcome Celia Fryar. Introductions by TUG hosts, our current favorite data viz resources or projects Presentation by Celia Fryar with Q&A You built a great dashboard. Nobody came. Meanwhile, everyone is experimenting with generative AI and data, building one-off tools that rarely connect back to the analytics people already rely on. This session brings...

"Mastering AI Narrative Generation via Tableau Extensions" by David Nguyen Generative AI is reshaping how we interact with dashboards, and bringing automated narrative context directly into Tableau transforms how users consume data. In this session, we will focus on building custom Tableau Extensions designed to generate dynamic, natural-language narratives right alongside your vizzes. W...

How Andy Kriebel created value at Coca-Cola using Tableau

AI possibilities in Tableau

Out of the Comfort Zone, Celia Fryar, XeoMatrix Conversational Analytics, Quick Look at the Business Preferences for Tableau Cloud and Tableau Next Building an Epic Iron Viz Story Ann Pregler, Iron Viz Champion ’26 & Sr. Data Analyst @ BECU Take a walk Ann's Iron Viz journey, from qualifiers to championship, and discuss how to use design, analytics, and storytelling principles to level up...

For the fall season, we served up a veritable buffet of topics. Several members of our Madison TUG leadership team demonstrated a medley of tips and techniques -- intermediate-level geospatial vizzing; implementing parameters to make sure your mélange of visualizations inter-operate for your users; how to build accessible data downloads and dashboards that conform to WCAG 2.2 AA principles to ensu...

Filters, Sets, & Parameters.| Ever wondered when to use a Filter vs. a Set, how Bins can help you understand your data, or how Parameters can make your dashboards more dynamic? We'll break down these essential Tableau features in a simple, practical way, with examples and demonstrations showing: Viz Extensions in Tableau - by Klaus Schulte, Tableau Visionary (Hall of Fame) Want to go beyon...

Tableau & Analytics Fundamentals

AI Generated Tableau Dashboards

Conversational Analytics - Join us for a look at where Tableau is headed in the era of AI. As analytics shifts from static dashboards to conversational experiences, trust becomes the foundation everything else is built on. We'll explore how conversational analytics, knowledge graphs, MCP, and agentic architectures are coming together — including headless approaches — to keep AI-driven insights...

AI tools like Copilot, ChatGPT, and Claude can spin up a dashboard in seconds, and the results are starting to look like it. Default layouts, misused chart types, and color palettes that look like they were borrowed from a stock template. Experienced analysts can spot an AI-generated dashboard from across the room, and so can your stakeholders, even if they can't name why it feels off. This is...

'Data, Demos, and the Art of Storytelling in the Age of AI' by Matthew Miller Show and tell: these two skills are a key part of every data person's toolbox. This presentation shares strategies, techniques, and illustrations to help you expand your ability to show and tell your data stories for maximum impact.

The session features a Community Spotlight with Jessica Bosch, Kirk Munroe on Composable Data Sources: The End of Blending, and Kevin Wee on The Application of Color in Tableau Dashboard Design. VanTUG brings together Tableau and data enthusiasts to learn, share ideas, and connect with the Greater Vancouver data community and beyond.

Join your K-12 community for our September TUG event! Not new but often confusing for new and experienced Tableau users. We will take a closer look at: Level of Detail Expressions (LOD) and Table Calculations We will also have a Community Spotlight with Mike Guanci from the Iowa School Board Association. We are {FIXED} on this topic and will {INCLUDE} a data set you can work on to not {EXCLUDE} an...

Join us for a discussion on what Tableau's global data visualisation competition, IronViz, can teach us about the dashboards we build at work. Each year, IronViz receives hundreds of entries from datafam members worldwide, judged on Analysis, Design, and Storytelling in equal measure. Corporate dashboards tend to lean heavily on analysis and let the other two slide — so we'll work through...

The analytics team at Iowa State Foundation has developed an embedded analytics solution that combines Tableau's geospatial capabilities with Salesforce’s integration to deliver prospect intelligence directly within users' existing CRM environment. Users can visualize geographic concentrations of high-potential households, identify underserved territories, and dynamically filter households...

Accessibility Made Easy: Hands-On! Collin Smith going to walk us through a really simple way to improve the accessibility of your dashboards using Tableau's Custom Themes feature. Have your computer ready, as you'll be able to viz along and apply Collin's accessible custom theme to a new dashboard, or an existing dashboard. You'll also learn how to tweak and export your own custom...

"Why some visualisations are instantly understood" by Danni Liu Why are some charts understood almost instantly while others need explaining, even when they present the same information? In this session, we'll explore what makes visualisations feel intuitive to the people using them. Through practical examples, we'll look beyond choosing the "right" chart to examine how...

"Out of the Comfort Zone", Cameron Brown, Tableau Stories from our community on using AI to develop a competitive advantage. "Data, Demos, and the Art of Storytelling in the Age of AI", Matthew Miller, VP of Product Management at Tableau, Salesforce Learn from a renowned master storyteller and communicator, with a gift for making complex ideas about data, technology, and AI eng...

"The Circle of Champions" - Rob Taylor Rob will guide us through his journey creating a wonderful radial bracket chart to track the progress of the 2026 World Cup. A surprise second speaker who will astound and amaze (watch this space)... A challenge! Using Tableau Public's new published data source function, we're going to share a World Cup dataset and we want to know what you c...

"Becoming a Tableau Triple Threat" by Nathan Settembrini What separates a good analyst from a truly great one? It takes more than technical expertise. The most impactful data professionals are triple threats, combining business acumen, technical chops, and a strong design eye to build solutions that answer the right questions, work elegantly, and create experiences people actually want t...