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Passion for analytics
Passion to Profession
Meet Heidi
How do you go from software developer to analytics community leader in just a few years?
- Find something you’re passionate about.
- Get a job that allows you to turn passion into profession.
- Reach out and share that passion selflessly with the community.
- Use your network to build and drive an initiative.
- Be inspired and inspire others in turn.
At least that’s what I did. Want to learn more? Check out my full bio.
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In data we trust – and yet there are many companies big and small that took data-driven decisions to their graves. Is BI truly a do-or-die decision? And if yes, how can we “do” BI right and live to die another day?
Advanced GravediggingKilling BI For Good 
Pie charts are often irrationally and unfittingly used, and the fight to show dashboard creators better practice chart types seems infinite. This session will tackle the irrational obsession that are pie charts, question their use and purpose, and introduce you to a number of infinitely better chart types.
Be Rational!Why Pi(e Chart) Is Not Your Answer 
Data is about more than just crunching numbers and writing code and designing algorithms and fixing bugs. It’s also about us – about the community. But what's in it for you?
Com(munity) As You Are 
How can I identify our business questions? Shape my data? Improve my users' data literacy levels? Get people to actually use my reports? Why is the visual analytics process really a cycle, and how does it help me drive my company's analytics culture?
Driving an analytics culture 
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There is comfort in the stagnancy that static reports have to offer, but in this time of rapid progress, isn’t standard reporting terribly outdated? Jump-starting your way into the world of Self-Service BI may appear daring, but not if it is done correctly. Dare to rise to the challenge of Self-Service BI and come out of this session an Olympic runner.
Run before you walklead your dashboard design game 
Tired of simple bar charts? Try the Marimekko! Combining the relative and absolute values of a measure divided by two or more dimensions, the Marimekko helps you accomplish what mere stacked bar charts or pie charts fail to show. Learn how to build a Marimekko, but also how to correctly use it to display your data in an engaging and insightful way.
Secret to a perfect Marimekko 
Tableau keeps rapidly publishing new features. Some of the biggest game changes amongst them were set actions and parameter actions. But when do you use which? And how can they help you visualize your business use cases? Watch this session to learn more.
Set it upwhen to use set vs parameter actions 
Can you learn twenty new Tableau hacks in just twenty minutes? Heidi will do her best to show you the little things that will make you go “Oh, I didn’t know this trick!” and save you a few seconds every day.
Tableau Speed Tipping20 Tips in 20 Minutes 
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Advancing Diversity in the Data Community
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