# Vlog #6: Data Night Out & Iron Viz, Conference Day 3 (Tableau conference 2016) #data16

> This is content from just-tim, the data-and-analytics channel by Tim Ngwena (formerly 'Tableau Tim'). Tim has 12+ years of hands-on BI experience and covers Tableau most of all, plus Power BI, Looker, Hex, SQL and data modelling, the analytics industry, and the craft of doing the job — always tool-agnostic and honest about the trade-offs.

- **Author:** Tim Ngwena (just-tim, https://just-tim.com/about)
- **Published:** 2016-11-14
- **Format:** Video · 9 min watch · transcript available
- **Topics:** Industry trends, Community
- **Tools:** Tableau (mobile)
- **Canonical:** https://just-tim.com/posts/vlog-6-data-night-out-iron-viz-conference-day-3-tableau-conference-2016-data16
- **Watch:** https://youtu.be/pSeRKr2vFFI

This is day three of Tableau Conference 2016. I recap the morning keynote from Shankar Vedantam, the Iron Viz win for Curtis Harris, the Data Night Out party, and an evening reflection on the Tableau Lab, the Expo Hall mobile discussions and the day's developer-track sessions.

## Key takeaways

- The Tableau Lab let attendees see in-progress product features and give direct feedback to the developers building them
- Talking to developers revealed how the intended use of features like mobile favourites can differ from how users actually adopt them, which matters when those features get enhanced
- Curtis Harris was crowned the 2016 Iron Viz champion
- Being willing to change your session schedule mid-day, or skip a session for something more valuable like the Lab, gets more out of a conference

## Chapters

- 0:00 Day three morning and the keynote ahead
- 3:04 Iron Viz 2016 winner announced
- 4:25 Data Night Out party recap
- 5:10 The Tableau Lab and mobile feedback
- 7:31 Reworking the day's sessions

Watch the full video, read the transcript and use chapter deep-links on the page: https://just-tim.com/posts/vlog-6-data-night-out-iron-viz-conference-day-3-tableau-conference-2016-data16

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