If you’re not off on some sunny beach somewhere (or even if you are), here are some (free!) opportunities coming up for you to sharpen your Tableau skills and get previews of material that will be in my book. I’ve got 3 presentations in the next month, two are in New England, the other is a webinar:

1. June 24th at the Boston Tableau User Group: Making Tableau More Predictable: Understanding the Multiple Levels of Granularity. This is a reschedule of the session I was going to give back in April, it’ll be a combination of presentation and hands-on practice on how to “think Tableau” so your calculated fields, top & conditional filters, table calcs, etc. are more likely to come out the way you expect. Alteryx is demoing their software, and Zach Leber is also presenting.
2. July 10th for a Think Data Thursday webinar: Setting up for Table Calculation Success. This will also review some of the granularity material, and go through how you can set up views and table calculations so that a) they work, and b) if they don’t work how to diagnose what is going on so you can get back to a working calc or be able to submit a really detailed support request.
3. July 22nd at the (inaugural) Maine Tableau User Group: Getting Good at Tableau. Hosted by Abilis Solutions in Portland, I’m helping to kick off the MaineTUG with a talk on how to set up your data and build your Tableau skills (including how to avoid getting distracted by all the gee-whiz features of the Tableau interface) and I’ll do some intro of Tableau 8.2. Grant Hogan of Abilis will be presenting, as well as someone from Tableau.

I’ll update this post as the links for registering appear, I hope to see you (virtually or in person) at one of these events! And if not then, I’ll be a the Tableau Conference in September.