Speech given at Broad Institude in Cambridge.

1. Boston TUG Broad Institute
January 28, 2014
Dan Murray
Director of BI Services
InterWorks, Inc.

2. Thank you!

3. Special Guests here…

4. Topics
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My first Tableau Project
The data flood
Being an evangelist/getting buy-in
Deployment strategies
Building effective dashboards

5. My First Tableau Project

6. Lessons Learned
• Start quickly
• Spreadsheets work
• Fast payback

7. Rapid Deployment
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Sales
Inventory
Accounts Receivable
Accounts Payable
• Purchasing

8. Dimensionally-Conformed Spreadsheet

9. Savings
3,000 hours
$450,000

10. I learned…
Everyone
needs
Tableau

11. The Data Flood
• Volume
• Velocity
• Variety

13. Order of Magnitude
Sources: Wikipedia, Wired Magazine

15. The NSA is watching
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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
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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

16. 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)

17. New 1-TB Drives Needed
462,170,217

18. $1.32 billion

19. Storage is keeping pace.

20. Variety
• Relational Databases
• Non-relational Databases
• Grid/cache storage
Over 190 commercial and open source options available.

21. “New Digital Universe
Study Reveals Big Data
Gap: Less Than 1% of
World’s Data is Analyzed.”
Source: IDC
http://www.emc.com/about/news/press/2012/20121211-01.htm

22. Part of the Answer
Tableau
Software

23. Answer Part II
Your skill &
Knowledge

24. Data
Visualization
Evangelist

25. “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

26. Getting Buy-in
Move quickly
Make a compelling story
Show something they haven’t seen

27. Pick something
you can finish
in < 4 weeks

28. Don’t do what your
boss asks you to do…

29. Make something
better…

30. Deployment Strategies

31. Consider
organizational
culture

32. Facebook
Mostly organic growth with
a common company
culture.

33. Cisco Systems
Growth through acquisition
with a variety of company
cultures.

34. Facebook
• Centrally controlled
• Center of excellence
• Rapid expansion

35. Cisco Systems
• Central funding
• Decentralized control
• Natural adoption

36. Both successful

37. Building
Effective
Dashboards

38. Effective means
They fit in the available space
Load quickly
Are easy to use & understand

40. Cascading Design

41. A live example
..using the Coffee Chain data..

42. Dan Murray
dan.murray@interworks.com
Twitter: dgm885
Speech notes
http://tableauyourdata.com/downloads/