Tableau Conference: Not even an earthquake could stop the fun

This week team dbt joined over 9000 attendees at Tableau Conference in sunny San Diego to share all the innovation we’ve been working on. We now support all three deployment options of Tableau (Desktop, Sever and Cloud) with our semantic layer. The week started with an earthquake, literally, and ended with a continued commitment to bring dbt, and our trust and rigor, to all Tableau Data Rockstars out there.

dbt was featured in sessions from The Information Lab, a feature during Devs on Stage, and a packed booth full of great questions and fun conversations. We can’t wait to see what both communities (Tableau’s and dbt’s) build in the coming year.

Thank you to the Information Lab

Harriet Owen and Jack Parry from The Information Lab, a premier Tableau and dbt partner, introduced and demoed how to use dbt models within Tableau to bring trust and rigor to the analytic process. It started with a pretty hilarious definition of what dbt is (that dbt and DBT are in fact not the same thing) and the went into a live demo of leveraging the dbt Semantic Layer inside of Tableau desktop.

Devs on Stage featured dbt - Thank you Patrick!

Devs on Stage is arguably the most popular session a Tableau Conferences. It dates back to the very first event in 2008. This is when the actual product engineers get on stage and share what they’ve been building. Patrick Green shared how Tableau Admins can use dbt to ‌better understand what’s going on in the Tableau Server and better serve their analytics deployments.

Nothing better than seeing dbt and Tableau on the big stage getting loud applause. You can watch the whole session here—it’s a must-see.

It wasn’t all work—we had some fun too

Many thanks to Interworks and The Information Lab for hosting social gatherings. We had fun meeting with customers and partners at the Padres baseball game on Tuesday night and the Wild Hare on Wednesday night. It was so nice to connect in such beautiful settings.

The momentum continues

If you want to learn more about the dbt-Tableau integration—please take a look at our docs. Or you can request a demo here. And please be sure to catch our dbt Launch Showcase at the end of May. We can’t wait to see what you all build with dbt and Tableau.