Tableau Showcase new BI at Customer Conference 2011
Tableau Software held is 4th Customer Conference in Las Vegas last week. This now annual event saw over 1,400 attendees at Tableau Customer Conference (TCC11) nearly double the size of last year’s conference,
TCC11 demonstrated that fast analytics and visualization are taking hold in organisations of all types.
The company gave a preview of Tableau 7, its visually stunning, analytically deep and enterprise-ready product release due out this winter.
In addition to 30 customer speakers, the conference features 52 hours of hands-on training, six major keynotes and 11 highly-regarded industry
expert speakers.
Featured Keynote Speakers
Tableau CEO and co-founder Christian Chabot opened the conference with a review of the “Tableau Experiment.” with Tableau Public where anyone can use the
powerful Business Intelligence tool to create free data visualisations within minutes and use Tableau to create an interactive viz and embed it in their
website or share it.
Chabot described how unleashing data’s potential is one of the great opportunities for human achievement this century.
Co-founder Chris Stolte and his team of developers took to the stage revealing an entertaining look at Tableau’s 7’s new features.
Apple’s former chief evangelist and AllTop.com co-founder Guy Kawasaki showed how to influence people's minds and actions through “delightful change”
Boing-Boing editor and science fiction writer Cory Doctorow mused on how to design for human sensors, and not just for humans as data points.
Jeffrey Ma, a member of the MIT Blackjack Team featured in the best-selling book Bringing Down the House and the movie 21, showed how businesses can harness the power of numbers.
Business analytics and data visualization guru Stephen Few anchored the event with a new talk about using our brain’s diverse abilities to collaborate.