HETUG March 2026 (April Fools!): Clucking Around in Map Layers of Data Lineage

Higher Education Tableau User Group

Apr 1, 7:00โ€‰โ€“โ€‰8:30โ€ฏPM (UTC)

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About this event

๐ŸŽถ Welcome ๐ŸŽถ

Log in, grab a treat, take a comfortable seat, and chair-dance to the fun tunes.


๐Ÿ” Meet a Community Chicken or Egg ๐Ÿฃ

Ginny Moench (Appalachian State University) and Sam Homier (Everett Community College)

Which came first, the chicken or the egg? HETUG co-leads Ginny and Sam will share some chicken vizzes and egg data, along with some egg-ceptional ways to eggs-ercise your data and Tableau skills outside of work. Get ready for some im-peck-able puns!


๐Ÿ’กTips and Tricks: Map Layers for Non-Map Charts ๐Ÿ—บ๏ธ

Michael McCusker (San Diego TUG Co-Leader)

Map layers on maps? Well, yeah, that makes sense. ๐Ÿ—บ๏ธ

Map layers for non-mappy charts?! Mind. Blown. ๐Ÿคฏ

Seriously, this is no April Fool's trick! Michael McCusker is here to share how you can extend Tableau's map layers functionality to build complex non-map visualizations.

๐ŸŒฎ Bonus: While he's here, Michael's going to share a hint or two about what the San Diego TUG has planned to welcome the Tableau Community back to town for TC26 in May.


๐ŸŽค Data Lineage: Some Open Source Options ๐ŸŽค

Andrew Drinkwater (Plaid Analytics)

You've got your shiny new dashboard all set up with an amazing data source, but where did the data actually come from? And what does it mean? The Tableau Catalog, part of Tableau's Data Management offerings, can help answer some of those questions, but if you need to track the lineage further upstream to, say, your Student Information System, you might be left with some holes in the metadata flow that you need to plug. Andrew will share some learnings around open source tools that may help harden the metadata pipes for your data flows.


๐Ÿ’ฌ Wrap-up and Chat ๐Ÿ’ฌ

We'll close out the meeting with info about our next HETUG meeting, and then open up breakout rooms to chat! (Chat may extend past 4:30pm Eastern.)



๐ŸŽ“ Can't get enough HETUG? ๐ŸŽ“

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Have questions about HETUG?

Contact the HETUG co-leads in the #higher_ed_tug Slack channel, or email us at higheredtug@gmail.com.

Organizers

  • Roshni Gohil

    MIT

    User Group Ambassador

  • Virginia Moench

    Appalachian State University

    User Group Leader

  • Sam Homier

    Everett Community College

    Tableau User Group Leader

  • James Emery

    Georgia Institute of Technology

    Tableau User Group Leader

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