First up:

Karen Borchert, Director of Election Insights at Election Systems & Software – Election Insights: Using Tableau to Improve US Elections –

A presidential election year is again upon us, and with it comes the promise of a bright spotlight of scrutiny around election operations. But unlike past presidential election years, 2016 brings a new ingredient to the table: big election data. ES&S has been a long-standing provider of voting equipment and software, and this year embarked on a mission to provide valuable data to election officials to help improve their operations. 

During this time, we’ll walk through the new Election Insights product, show how we’re using Tableau to power it, and talk about how election officials are using it to prepare for the 2016 presidential election.

and then…

Dan Murray, Director of BI Services at InterWorks, and author of ‘Tableau Your Data’– Discovery and Predictive Analytics with Tableau – 

A review of the available techniques and tools available within Tableau for doing discovery analysis and predictive analysis along with a review of integrations with other tools like Python and R to “operationalize” predictive analytics within web frameworks.

 Topics covered:

    . Dashboards designed for discovery

    . Forecasting

    . Parameters

    . Data interpreter

    . Ad hoc calculations

    . Integrating other tools with Tableau (operationalizing sophisticated back-end tools like R and Python)