MyIllini Student Portal: Dynamic College Content

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Enrollment Management partnered with IT Partners at Education to build an API that a college can use to show dynamic, student-specific content in the MyIllini student portal. We’ll provide an overview of the portal, integration options, and the Azure-hosted app Education is using to feed the portal.

Misadventures in Group Management

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Our IT shop manages our college’s Active Directory objects. We leverage the AD for a variety of permissions and emailing needs, so it is important to keep our lists up-to-date. Many groups are ad-hoc, but, increasingly, we are using our college personnel directory to indirectly manage our AD memberships. I’ll overview some of the tools […]

Data Access Permissions in Tableau

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Whether on the data server, the Tableau data source, or the Tableau dashboard, row-level permissions are essential for presenting confidential data to the right people. We’ll talk about permissions on Tableau Server, row-level security, and the approach we’ve used on some recent dashboards.

Tableau Dashboards and Data Sources: Supporting Your Tableau Users

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In this 2-hour workshop, we’ll briefly overview the landscape of Tableau Desktop and Tableau Server, what your users can do for free on AITS’s Tableau server, how to get setup, and what requires the desktop tool. Then we’ll practice using Tableau Desktop to create and share a data source (a 2-week free trial of Tableau […]

Fostering Data-Driven Decision Making

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Questions require refinement. Data requires interrogation. Query, assess, refine, repeat. As a data analyst in a small shop, I’m often part of that process, but what if our users could interrogate data themselves to refine and answer their own questions? We’ll show how we’re using Tableau to put interactive data into the hands of our […]