1. pkundu@conservation.org Using Tableau Public as a “Sustainable” Platform for Conservation Monitoring & Reporting How to Build and Deploy a Dashboard in One Hour for Free! Piyali Kundu April 5, 2016

2. pkundu@conservation.org Contact: Piyali Kundu Carbon Fund Coordinator Conservation International pkundu@conservation.org Richard Fox Sales Representative Tableau (DC Office) rfox@tableau.com

3. pkundu@conservation.org Agenda: Tableau Public & Conservation How did Tableau Public help us? Benefits of using Tableau Public Caveats of using Tableau Public Webinar: How to build and deploy a dashboard in an hour Introduction and workspace Building charts and dashboards Saving and uploading dashboard

4. pkundu@conservation.org Challenge: Create a monitoring tool/system with limited funds Landscape Accounting Framework (LAF) Monitoring + reporting + implementation tool to track a landscape’s progress towards sustainability LAFAPP Complimentary interactive web application Increases transparency with donors and stakeholders Limited budget for tech. and training

5. pkundu@conservation.org LAFAPP Original Concept

6. pkundu@conservation.org LAFAPP Original Concept

7. pkundu@conservation.org LAFAPP Thesis Project http://terpconnect.umd.edu/~pkund u/geog797/capstone/

8. pkundu@conservation.org LAF Dashboards Carbon Fund Tableau Public Site https://public.tableau.com/profile/carbon.fund#!/

9. pkundu@conservation.org LAF Dashboards

10. pkundu@conservation.org Benefits of Tableau Public A “sustainable” interface Free, powerful technology platform Free web hosting (i.e., communication) Does not require an established DBMS Documentation Quick and easy to learn Eliminates need to know coding: JavaScript PHP SQL

11. pkundu@conservation.org Caveats of Tableau Public For the public Dashboards must be saved to Tableau Public site; made available to public Need paid version to keep proprietary data confidential Cannot control who looks at dashboards

12. pkundu@conservation.org Caveats of Tableau Public Simple Does not connect to many databases/ data types Excel Excel Workbooks (.xls,.xlsx,.xlsm) Text Character Delimited Files (.csv) Tab Delimited Files (.tab,.tsv) Text files (.txt) Access Access Databases (.mdb,.accdb) Statistical Files SAS Files (.sas7bdat) SPSS Files (.sav) R Files (.rdata,.rda) Servers OData, Web Data Connector

13. pkundu@conservation.org Introduction to Dataset

14. pkundu@conservation.org

15. That’s a wrap! You did it! Training manual will be sent to SCGIS SCGIS will upload copy of this video Feel free to email me or Richard any questions (rfox@tableau.com)rfox@tableau.com Check out the Tableau site for additional tutorials and training materials Join a local Tableau user group