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Building a Data Viz & Tableau Culture at Facebook
Andy Kriebel Data Viz Guru - Facebook Cincinnati Business Intelligence & Analytics Meetup August 19, 2014
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A little bit about you…
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How long have you been using Tableau?
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How many meetups have you attended?
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What do you want to know?
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My first Tableau project
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It started with a simple question
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How are teams planning budgets vs. goals?
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And we’d like to see a dashboard
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1 hour from that Google search…
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30 minutes after that…
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The next day, we identified problems!
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Teams were now accountable!
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There are now 93 TUGs!
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Who has been to Facebook?
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Let’s go on a tour...
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325 million per day
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140 billion friend connections
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What is big data to you?
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Facebook’s Big Data
• 300 petabytes of data in Hive • 600 terabytes incoming daily
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What works for Facebook might not work for you
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“Our problem is not a lack of data, it’s our inability to make sense of what we have.”
Stephen Few: Tableau Customer Conference 2008
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Our legacy reporting stack had major gaps
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MicroStrategy
• Complex and hard to master ad-hoc environment
• Dependency on developers • Needed a full-time on-site trainer
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In-house tools• Lack of sophisticated data visualization or
top-notch dashboarding • Needed to be supported by in-house
engineers • Upgrades have been painful
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Why did we need another tool?
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What were we looking for?1. Self-service dashboards and analysis 2. Remove dependency on the BI team 3. Needed an intuitive tool for data
discovery 4. Security 5. Increase speed of development
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What’s worked and what hasn’t?
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We started with a multi-tenancy model…
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…but that didn’t meet our needsOpen to everyone
All Access
Workbooks
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Monetization
Workbooks
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Sustainability
Workbooks
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HR & Finance
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Workbooks
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Outside Access
All Access
Workbooks
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Growth & Analytics
All Access
Workbooks
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Tableau is available to EVERYONE
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And the growth has been phenomenal
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Set the foundation with data viz best practices
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Regular, hands-on Tableau training sessions
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We invite industry experts
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We make Tableau work for us
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We built an email subscription service
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We created our own data portal
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BI is no longer a roadblock
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We tap into the postgres database
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Users know the status of their extracts
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We know who is viewing what
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We trigger extracts only after data lands
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VizPlateShowcase Tips & Tricks
News & Announcements
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How can we support so many people?
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The Data Viz Team
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We have some challenges
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Dashboards vs. Analytics
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Performance & scalability
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Vertica implementation
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What skills do people need?
1.Data Modeling
2.SQL
3.Coding
4.Data Viz / Tableau
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If you know anyone, let me know!
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We’re building some cool hacks!
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Dynamically update shapes
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We’ve invented new chart types
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Imagine Tableau Servers that do NO EXTRACTS
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Imagine extracts that run 40x FASTER
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Offload extract creation on distributed systems without licensing costs
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And it’ll all be open sourced
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Come to our talk at #DATA14Wednesday 10:45 AM
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Sources of inspiration
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Read lots of blogs!http://bit.ly/DataVizBlogs
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Follow me!vizwiz.blogspot.com facebook.com/vizwiz
@VizWizBI