Jared is a 31-year resident of Boone, NC who married his high school sweetheart while they were both students at Appalachian State. They have 3 sons (18, 11, 8) and spend much of their spare time at football stadiums, soccer fields and gymnasiums supporting the boys. For fun he loves photography, attending live concerts & sporting events, and cooking on charcoal grills.
Jared is a 25+ year technology professional with a wide variety of experience across marketing and operational type roles. The last 10 years he’s been at Samaritan’s Purse where he was able to obtain the first Tableau Desktop license in the organization in 2012. The company has now grown to 40+ Desktop and 700+ Viewer licensees. Jared’s current role is in the IT Department where he serves as a Program Manager. He’s been able to attend 3 Tableau Conferences (Seattle, Las Vegas, New Orleans) and holds the Tableau Certified Desktop Specialist certification.
My presentation will be focused on how I’ve supported an initiative to use Tableau to represent Unreached People Groups (UPGs) visually on a map. Using data from the International Mission Board (IMB) that is made available via an ESRI ArcGIS Server Rest API endpoint I’ve been able to overlay a map with this external data from the IMB alongside Samaritan’s Purse data to allow our volunteer teams across the globe to have a more precise targeted list of UPGs in their geographic area of responsibility to include in annual ministry plans.
Virginia (Ginny) Moench is an Enrollment Management Business Intelligence Analyst at Appalachian State University. With a background in anthropology (not data), Ginny began teaching herself Tableau in 2012. Since then, she has implemented Tableau at two institutions, trained colleagues to use the software, led Tableau workshops, and co-founded Analytics Day at Appalachian State University. She co-leads the High Country Tableau User Group and the Higher Education TUG as well.
Date Scaffolding for tracking daily....FILL IN THE BLANK!
There are many things you can track on a daily basis, from registrations and applications to clicks and pings. This session will explain how to use a date scaffold to build your visualization, how to write calculations for different date comparisons, and help you understand how the underlying data structure affects your visualization.
