Yvan Fornes
Passionate Data Analytics professional with over 10 years of experience in this field in the Travel industry (Airline & Hotel).
Yvan Fornes is a Tableau Zen Master and an Analytics Business Consultant at Amadeus, the leading IT solutions provider for the travel industry. He helps Airlines to detect revenue opportunities by analyzing and visualizing data. Yvan started his career in Hotel Revenue Management, the department that set the room prices, working for the Marriott Group and, later for the Louvre Hotels Group where he was responsible for data analysis and business intelligence.
In 2000, he started working for Air France Revenue Management and was quickly promoted to Revenue Management Team leader on Air France's domestic routes.
In 2005, Yvan joined Amadeus as an Airline Inventory Product Manager. He was in contact with the world's leading airlines such as Air France, Lufthansa, Singapore, Finnair, SAS....
In 2012, before his current role, as a consultant for 9 Airlines during 3 years, he used Digital Analytics to help his customers to optimize their websites by improving their Search Engine Optimization (SEO), their advertising campaigns ROI (PPC, display, email...) and their conversion rate.
Twitter: @YvanFornes
Web: Yvan on Tableau Public
VisualizationsVisualizing Every Single Street in San Francisco, in collaboration with Rickey Gates
March 6, 2020
Rickey Gates’ newest adventure. Rickey Gates is one of the most recognized extreme runners in the world. For his Every Single Street project, he ran every single street in San Francisco. Data viz expert Yvan Fornes helped him visualize all of his running routes—over 1,317 miles in 46 days—in Tableau.
DataUnderstanding how Tableau calculation types work together
September 5, 2019
If you are struggling to understand how to use Calculations in Tableau, you are not alone. In this blog post, Tableau Zen Master Yvan Fornes shares his methodology for understanding how to combine the different calculation types.
Tableau PublicStruggling to keep New Year’s fitness resolutions? Here’s how Strava’s new web data connector helps you visualize results
January 3, 2019
VisualizationsThree different ways to build funnels in Tableau—and why
June 18, 2018
Want to create funnels in Tableau? Here are 3 different ways you can build them.
VisualizationsHow to add illustrations to your dashboard and why you should care
December 12, 2017
When creating dashboards, visual elements don’t have to be restricted to the data visualization alone, but can also extend to the titles, legends, labels, and help elements—grabbing readers’ attention and helping them process and understand your visualization faster.
VisualizationsTwo approaches to benchmarking with Tableau
September 2, 2017
Zen Master, Yvan Fornes, share two approaches to benchmarking in Tableau.
Data SkillsA one-day curriculum for teaching Tableau: Tips from a Master
June 6, 2017
I recently had the privilege of teaching my passion—data visualization—at the EDHEC Global MBA program in Nice, France. I was sent by my company, Amadeus, the leading IT solutions provider for the travel industry and largest processor of travel bookings in the world.
VisualizationsHow to design a viz that doesn’t answer a specific question
February 2, 2017
Even if you’re not answering a specific question, you need to help the reader. You need to drive him to insights. To do so, follow these four recommendations.
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