Hello Tampa Bay Tableau Users,

Welcome to our new and improved newsletter!

February meeting follow-up

You can access the recording of the meeting here and the slides here.

Many thanks to Claire Santoro of Nightingale for her fascinating presentation on the history of the journal and the Data Visualization Society. As promised, here’s the link to join DVS in order to be able to access the DVS Slack workspace and other benefits. (There are free, income-conscious, and regular memberships. Please consider a paid membership if you have the means. The entire organization is volunteer-run.)

LinkedIn Group and social media

If you’d like to join our LinkedIn Group, here’s the link. Follow us on Twitter, too!

March 31, Women in Tech and Business, University of South Florida (main Tampa campus)

Tampa Bay Tableau User Group co-leader and founder of Women in Dataviz Nicole Mark will be speaking on the panel at the University of South Florida’s Women in Tech and Business event on March 31 at 2:30 p.m. The event will be located in the Marshall Center, Room 3705 on the main Tampa campus. No advance registration is required.

April 12, Tampa Bay Tableau User Group Happy Hour at Coppertail Brewing Company

Join us for a super low-key happy hour at Ybor City’s Coppertail Brewing Company on Wednesday, April 12, at 6:30 p.m. Coppertail serves food if you’d like to have a snack or dinner. Please RSVP by replying to this email with your name and if you plan to bring any additional guests with you so I can make sure we have adequate space in the brewery.

Bevy events platform implementation

Starting April 1, 2023, details and registration for all Tableau User Groups’ meetings will happen through Bevy instead of Splash. Please create an account so you’ll receive notifications about our upcoming meetings.

May 18, 2023 Virtual Meeting

Our next official meeting is scheduled for Thursday, May 18, 2023 at noon EST. We have two amazing speakers scheduled. RSVP link available April 1 via Bevy.

Elisa Davis: Intro to Back 2 Viz Basics

Elisa Davis became a Lead BI Analyst at Discover in August 2022, and still can’t quite believe she gets paid to viz all day.

Elisa began her Tableau career as a fundraising analyst at the University of Nevada, Reno in 2018. With Desktop I and II under her belt, she undertook an overhaul of fundraiser reporting. She began posting to Tableau Public and Twitter in September 2021. Her life hasn’t been the same since!

Elisa is delighted to have been selected as a Tableau Public Ambassador. She loves giving back to the community via her Advancement (Fundraising) Tableau User Group and Back 2 Viz Basics (#B2VB) leadership roles, and looks forward to this opportunity to welcome and lift up new talent.

What is Back 2 Viz Basics? Who is it for? How can you get involved? Elisa Davis co-leads this Tableau community project and will answer all these questions and more. She'll also give a sneak peek at the upcoming collab challenge with #ProjectHealthViz.

Ethan Lang: The Analytics Pane

Ethan leads a team of world class Tableau engineers as Director of Analytics Engineering at Playfair Data. He is an Army veteran and advocates for veterans by telling their stories through data. Ethan has a very strong technical background backed up by his Bachelor’s degree in Business Analytics from the University of Kansas and his Master’s degree in Statistics from the University of Kansas Medical Center. He has been the technical reviewer for several published books, author of three Tableau Viz of the Days, and avid blogger where he shares tactics and strategies about Tableau. Ethan is the co-lead of the Veterans Advocacy Tableau User Group, a member of Tableau’s Speaker Bureau, and is a Tableau Ambassador. When not creating world class dashboards you can find Ethan spending time with his family, fishing, woodworking, or enjoying the outdoors.

Ethan’s presentation will cover Tableau’s Analytics Pane and how you can implement statistical analyses in your Tableau dashboards.

Save the date: June 15, 2023 Virtual Meeting with guest speaker Andy Cotgreave, Senior Data Evangelist at Tableau!

Know someone looking to learn Tableau?

Nicole is offering a six-week live course on Maven! The cohort begins on April 11 (Tuesday evening live classes) or April 27 (Thursday evening live classes. Use the discount code TPATUG for 15% off of enrollment.

If you have any questions or just want to say hi, drop us a line.

Best,

Nicole & John