tableau your data! roadshow speech phoenix tug 02202014
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Tableau Your Data! Roadshow talk at AAA in Phoenix.TRANSCRIPT
Dan Murray Director of BI Services
InterWorks, Inc.
February 20, 2014
Phoenix TUG
Thrilled to be in Phoenix!
Topics
• My first Tableau Project • The data flood • Being an evangelist/getting buy-in • Deployment strategies • Building effective dashboards
My First Tableau Project
Rapid Deployment • Sales • Inventory • Accounts Receivable • Accounts Payable • Purchasing
Dimensionally-Conformed Spreadsheet
Lessons Learned • Start quickly
• Spreadsheets work
• Fast payback
3,000 hours
$450,000
Savings
I learned…
Everyone needs Tableau
The Data Flood
• Volume • Velocity • Variety
Order of Magnitude
Sources: Wikipedia, Wired Magazine
The NSA is watching • Internet Searches • Websites visited • Emails sent & received • Social Media activity • Blogging activity • Videos watched/uploaded • Photos viewed/uploaded • Cell phone GPS data • Cell phone Apps downloaded • Phone call records • Text messages sent/received • Skype video calls
• Online purchases/transactions • Credit card transactions • Financial information • Legal documents • Travel documents • Health records • Cable TV shows watched • Commuter toll records • Bus and subway passes • Facial recognition data • Arrest records • Drivers license data • And more….
http://nsa.gov1.info/data/index.html#data Source:
Digital Data 2014
462,170,216,577,264,268,748 Year-to-date through 1/28/2014 (1:12PM EST)
462.170 Exabytes
0.463 Zettabytes
Source: EMC Worldwide Information Growth Ticker (power by IDC Research)
New 1-TB Drives Needed
462,170,217
$1.32 billion
Storage is keeping pace.
Variety
• Relational Databases • Non-relational Databases • Grid/cache storage
Over 190 commercial and open source options available.
“New Digital Universe Study Reveals Big Data Gap: Less Than 1% of World’s Data is Analyzed.”
http://www.emc.com/about/news/press/2012/20121211-01.htm Source: IDC
Part of the Answer
Tableau Software
Answer Part II
Your skill & Knowledge
Data Visualization Evangelist
“We humans are not a consistent identity moving through time, but a chain of successive selves, each tangentially linked to, and yet distinct from, the previous and subsequent ones.”
Derek Parfit Philosopher & Author of Reasons and Persons
Getting Buy-in
Move quickly
Make a compelling story
Show something they haven’t seen
Pick something you can finish in < 4 weeks
Don’t do what your boss asks you to do…
Make something better…
Deployment Strategies
Consider organizational
culture
Mostly organic growth with a common company culture.
Cisco Systems
Growth through acquisition with a variety of company cultures.
• Centrally controlled • Center of excellence • Rapid expansion
Cisco Systems
• Central funding • Decentralized control • Natural adoption
Both successful
Building
Effective
Dashboards
They fit in the available space Load quickly Are easy to use & understand
Effective means
Cascading Design
A live example
..using the Coffee Chain data..
