Ask data colloquial suggestions

0:00Hey, it's Tim here. And in 2020.3, Tableau

0:05continues to improve the capabilities in

0:08Ask

0:08Data. In this version, they've added the

0:11ability to add colloquial suggestions to

0:13the Ask Data

0:14interface. Let's hop into Tableau and I'll

0:16show you how that works. I'm going to be

0:17doing

0:18this on a Tableau Online instance. In this

0:20particular case, I'm in my test instance

0:25that

0:25I use for testing new features. In order to

0:28see this feature, you have to first go to

0:31a data set that has Ask Data enabled. So I

0:33'm going to head over to Explore, go to the

0:35top

0:36level projects drop down here and go to my

0:38data sources. You'll see here I have four

0:41data sources. And I'm just going to work

0:44with Superstore sales. You can publish this

0:47up

0:47to Tableau server or Tableau Online

0:49yourself and have a go alongside this video

0:52. And you

0:52can see here that we actually have some

0:54suggested questions. And the issue here is

0:56that typically

0:56these questions are in a language that

0:58relates to the kind of language you type in

1:00a database

1:01rather than the kind of language you'd

1:03actually use if you're asking a friend a

1:06question.

1:07And so what this allows you to do is

1:08essentially change these suggestions. So

1:10you can see here

1:11that it's got sum of discount. I actually

1:13wouldn't do a sum of discount. I think I'd

1:15actually do sum of sales probably. So let's

1:19just type sum of sales. If I type S-A-L-S

1:22here and then that's fine. But the text to

1:25display is what we now have the ability to

1:27change. So I can actually change this and I

1:30can say total sales. And I can even say

1:33what are the total sales. So now when Table

1:38au suggests that you should look at

1:40something

1:41like sum of sales, it will actually use

1:43what are the total sales instead in the

1:46text. So

1:46you can see here that that's what it does.

1:48And when I click on that, it actually opens

1:50up the view and it uses the original query

1:53that I used in the first place to actually

1:55build this view. So it's basically a bridge

1:59between database and query language and the

2:02actual interface that we're using. In some

2:06ways, this is a great feature because it

2:07helps

2:08you bridge the gap in your organization

2:10about language. And if you're in a multi

2:13cultural

2:14organization with lots of different

2:16languages, this can start to help you

2:17figure out how

2:18to add some of those language differences

2:20into your datasets. But I'm also hoping

2:23that

2:23in the future, this is used to improve the

2:25machine learning capabilities so that Table

2:28au

2:28can start to understand terms used in your

2:31business and see where there's synonyms or

2:34alternative phraseology for the same

2:36metrics across different markets, for

2:38example, in

2:39a company. But that's pretty much it. That

2:41's the feature in a nutshell. If you've

2:43enjoyed

2:43this video, check out some of the other

2:44videos on this 2020.3 playlist. There's

2:47some absolutely

2:47great content to access here. And by all

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2:52enjoying

2:53it. If you're not enjoying it, let us know

2:54what you'd like to improve in the comments

2:56and we'll try and get to that in the next

2:57video. I'll catch you in the next one.