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Tableau User Group talks, transcribed and searchable

Tableau User Groups (TUGs) are where the Tableau community actually meets. There are more than two hundred of them around the world: groups for a city or a country, groups for an industry such as healthcare, retail or higher education, and groups built around a community or a craft, from Data + Women and Black in Data to maps, accessibility and sport. Most meet every month, most meetings are free and online, and almost every one of them is run by volunteers.

A lot of genuinely good material is shared in those meetings: live demos, hard-won lessons from real projects, conference talks given again for people who could not be there, and honest answers in the Q&A. And almost none of it is ever written down. A recording is an hour-shaped wall: you cannot skim it, you cannot search it, and you cannot quote from it.

Team DataFam exists to fix that, and to help more people find their way to a user group. This site turns TUG recordings into something you can read, search and share, and it gives every group, every meeting and every person who speaks at one a page of their own.

What you will find here

The meetings. Every recorded meeting has its own page, with the video, a summary of what was covered, the key takeaways, chapters to jump straight to the part you came for, and the full transcript. The transcript is timestamped: click any line and the recording jumps to that exact moment. Meetings held in another language, such as Portuguese, Korean or Norwegian, are transcribed in their own language and carry an English summary alongside one in the original.

The user groups. Each TUG has a page listing its recorded meetings, newest first, with a link to join the group on the Tableau user group platform. If you are looking for a group that meets in your time zone, talks about your industry or suits your level of experience, this is the place to start.

The people. Hosts, presenters and panellists each have a page that gathers every talk they have spoken in, across every group. It is an easy way to follow someone whose work you like, or to see who in the community knows a lot about a subject.

The topics. Every meeting is tagged with the subjects it covers, from map layers and calculations to dashboard design, accessibility, governance and AI, so you can follow a subject across groups rather than one group at a time. Each topic has its own page of talks and clips.

The shorts. Short vertical clips cut from the meetings: one idea, one tip or one good story each, usually under a minute and a half. They are the quickest way to sample a talk, and each one links back to the full meeting it came from.

Everything is searchable

Because every word of every transcript is indexed, a search here finds what was actually said, not just what a talk was called. Search for a function, a chart type, a feature, a product, a person or a phrase you half-remember, and you will land on the meetings where it came up, often something mentioned in passing forty minutes into a session.

By the numbers

The archive grows every week as new meetings are recorded and older ones are transcribed. These figures update themselves as talks are published; the By the numbers page breaks them down by month, group, speaker, topic and language.

  • 135recorded meetings
  • 50user groups
  • 148presenters
  • 739short clips
  • 148hours transcribed
  • 1.5Mwords, all searchable

How it is made

Recordings are transcribed by a speech-to-text service that also separates the speakers. Those speakers are then named by checking the recording itself: the name on a participant’s video tile, a title slide, or someone introducing them out loud. Summaries, takeaways and chapters are drafted with AI assistance and reviewed before they are published. Where a speaker cannot be identified, the page says nothing rather than guess. The About page explains the process in more detail.

The recordings themselves stay on YouTube, on the channel of the group that made them. This site embeds them and links back, so watching a talk here still counts as a view for the group that recorded it.

Get involved

If you run a Tableau User Group and would like your meetings in the archive, if you would like to present at a TUG, or if you spoke at a meeting and something here is wrong, whether your name, your employer, a term or a sentence attributed to the wrong person, please get in touch. Corrections are made quickly, and if you would rather not appear at all, the page will be taken down, no reason needed.

The user groups

Every group with a recording in the archive, most recent meeting first.

A work in progress

The archive is still being filled in. Every meeting here is transcribed, checked and written up with the help of AI, and that takes real time and money for each hour of recording, so the backlog is being worked through gradually rather than all at once.

It is being done in reverse order: the most recent meetings are transcribed first, and then we work slowly back through time. If a meeting you remember is not here yet, it most likely just has not been reached. New meetings are added as they happen, and older ones appear week by week as the backfill continues.