Tableau: Rules of Engagement in the Cloud

Albert Wong - Enterprise Reporting PlatformSrikanth Devidi - Data Engineering & Analytics

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Metrics

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86 million members125 hours/day190 countries

Netflix Culture

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● Freedom and responsibility

● Loosely coupled, highly aligned

● Context over control

Google Search: Netflix Culture Deck

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Data Platform

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events data

operations data

data processors

fast storage data viz

data

exploration

data services

kragle

metacat

portal

Amazon S3

Amazon Redshift

Single Data Warehouse

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Amazon S3

Accessing Data Warehouse

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Specialized Data Storage

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Amazon Redshift

Tableau Development

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REST API

Connecting to Data

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Amazon Redshift

Addressing Big Data Issues

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Amazon Redshift

Tableau data extract

Netflix + Tableau API

Summary

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● Culture● Cloud● Scalability● Development

Analytics(How we use Tableau to run our business)

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Data Engineering & Analytics

Metrics

Data Engineering

Visualization

f(x) = (a*b)/n

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Audience

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Read Process Store Sync Visualize

Architecture

Amazon S3 Amazon RedshiftAmazon S3

Data Products

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Example: Exploratory dashboards

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Example: Personalization

Iterative development

Storytelling

Tableau DesktopBuilt-in chart typesConnectors

Tableau ServerDeploymentVersion control

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Tableau for Dashboards

Packaged Data Sources(for power users)

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Tableau Data Source

TableauServer

TableauExtractRaw Data

AdditionalMetadata

+

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Tableau Data Source

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Reusable

Data governance

Tested up to 100M recordsVery wide Varying cardinality

~90 GB uncompressed~6 GB compressed

Why Tableau Data Source?

Hell’s Kitchen Stats

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Tableau JS API

Tableau React

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XML Hacking

Rule #1

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For iterative development, use:• Smaller, local extracts• Database views

#1

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For dashboard performance, stick with extracts.

#2

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Slow queries? Check system background jobs.

#3

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For live connections, check:• concurrency limits• .tdc and query fusion

#4

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Test with the user in mind.

#5

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See you at the Netflix booth!

@albertcwong@srikanthdevidi@netflixdata