04/03/2026
On March 7 hosted an IronViz-style competition in partnership with in Malibu, CA. Tableau graciously provided training, licenses, and prizes.
Teams comprised of MS in Business Analytics (MSBA) and MBA students received a prompt the day of the event to leverage real customer data with the requirement of developing a dashboard; the data contained detailed purchase histories from 5,027 U.S. Amazon.com consumers, covering the period 2018 through 2022, comprising more than 1.8 million purchases.
I wanted to thank the following folks for making this happen:
Tableau Organizers:
Meghan Clark Roberts
Rabeea Qamar
Coleman Wagoner (engineer and lead for Tableau training)
Pepperdine Organizers:
Erik Krogh PhD
Diane Singel
Elizabeth Pode
Emerging Tech Association (student club)
Special thank you to Pepperdine Graziadio Dean Deborah Crown for kicking off the event!
Finally, thank you to our judges and alumni:
Michael Fattal
Jeanine Bandyk
Catherine Huang, MSBA