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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

Facebook

Mostly organic growth with a common company culture.

Cisco Systems

Growth through acquisition with a variety of company cultures.

Facebook

•  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..

Dan Murray dan.murray@interworks.com

Twitter: dgm885

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