Podcast Series: Getting Started with Tableau, Allstate
With Tableau we can translate millions of records easily and quickly to create innovative visuals.
Getting started with Tableau? Or perhaps youâre looking for ways to get your teamâs skills ramped faster?
Hear for yourself what other Tableau users recommend to help accelerate your use of Tableau. This short podcast with Marta Magnuszewska of Allstate shares her tips for you to incorporate into your own use of Tableau.
Marta: Sure. In my role as an Intelligence Data Analyst in the Special Investigation Unit at Allstate Company, my major responsibilities are to translate large sets of claims medical records into meaningful financial stories. I analyze data, compare trends and pinpoint opportunity areas where action can be taken to combat insurance fraud and abuse.
Tableau: Terrific. And tell us, you use Tableau in a lot of the analysis youâre doing, I understand.
Marta: We use Tableau as a visualization tool. Tableau has many great visualization and mapping capabilities. It has been helping us to tell the story with all the visuals and itâs great.
Tableau: Cool. How long have you been using Tableau?
Marta: I have been using Tableau for about three years, although my teammates are relatively new to Tableau. They have about a year or less of experience.
Tableau: Then you must be a little bit of an expert about how to help people get started and getting running with Tableau. Can you share with us a couple of ideas or things that youâve done to help people get started with Tableau, someone whoâs just getting going? What would you recommend that they should do?
Marta: The first thing I want to say is that Tableau has many great things. The first one that I would tell any new user is that Tableau is extremely easy to use and extremely fast in comparison to any other tools that I have been using. The second thing is we always say that we have an ability with Tableau to translate millions of records very easy and quickly into innovatively creative visuals, tell stories with those visuals which are easy for eyes to see and comprehend because of the mapping and all the other visualsâ capabilities.
And we always say that Tableau, if you point and click, there is nothing that you can miss or break with it because thatâs how easy it is to use. But, if you ever run into problems, we say that Tableau has different venues for users to seek help and the staff, the support staff at Tableau is awesome and great.
Tableau: Oh, cool. So, youâve had some good luck over in your three years and your teamâs success with Tableau. And I know too that youâre going to be speaking at our upcoming Tableau Customer Conference in Las Vegas. Weâre very excited about that. Your topic is Helping in the Fight to Combat Insurance Abuse and Fraud. Can you give me a quick preview about what youâll be talking about?
Marta: Yes. In this yearâs conference I will present my innovatively creative visuals which translate into very impactful stories. They significantly benefited my team and Allstate as a company. At my session youâll learn more about the powerful weapon that Tableau has proven to be in our fight to combat insurance fraud.
Tableau: That sounds great. I know that you do a lot of really interesting mapping things with Allstate. Can you tell us a little story or an example of maps that youâve put together with Tableau and Allstate data?
Marta: Yes. We actually use a lot of mapping, not only to show the location of the geographical location, but we also do a lot of geo coding and we map relationships with geo coding the distances. So, that all will be included in my presentation at the conference.
Tableau: Thank you, Marta. We really appreciate you being here today, and weâll see you in Las Vegas.
Marta: Yes. Iâm excited. See you in Las Vegas.