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Tableau Lunch and Learn in SLC on 6-10-2014 (Bill Yetman and Adam Davis)
1. Data Driven: The Ancestry.com Journey to Self-Service
Analytics
Bill Yetman – VP Engineering
Adam Davis – Data Visualization Team Lead
Salt Lake City | 10 June, 2014 | 11:00 - 1:00PM MDT
4. Traditional BI Tool Challenges
● Dashboarding Bottleneck
● Team of 3
● Analysts wouldn’t use it
● Steep learning curve
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5. The Search for a Self Service
Tool
● Executive Challenge to become a Data Driven Org
● Needed to move quicker with discovering and
sharing insights
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6. Self Service Options Explored
● Microstrategy Visual Insight
- Training
- Workshops
● Microsoft BI POC
- Power Pivot
- Power View
● Tableau Evaluation
- 2 Week
- 30 Desktop users
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7. Tableau Evaluation Findings
● 2 Weeks
● 120 Views created
● Excel users were quickest adopters
● Prizes Awarded
● Most Colorful
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9. Adoption Explodes
● In 9 Months
● 100 Desktop Licenses
● CPU Server License (Access for Everyone)
● 820 Views
● 250 Workbooks
● Went from struggling with BI tool user adoption to
everyone wants to use it.
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10. How do you avoid the
“Wild West” of reporting?
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13. PR Mother’s Day Campaign
● Featured in news Articles
● Wall Street Journal
● Washington Post
● Time.com
● NY Daily News
● Featured as Viz of the Day on
Tableau Public
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15. A/B Testing Team
● Self Service at work
● 40 requests to analytics for A/B test
analysis in 2014
● Received 3 to date
● Built a dashboard in 3 days w/ Tableau
Desktop
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