New site and 3 great Tableau Youtube channels to follow

0:00Hey, it's Tim here and we're back. It's

0:012020 and finally nearly the end of January

0:05and I'm finally

0:05getting a video out to kick off the year.

0:08Now I've actually been quite busy since the

0:10beginning of

0:10the year. I've actually been working on a

0:12few things. If you haven't checked it out

0:13already,

0:14check out the Path to Normalcy video that

0:15Tablo launched a couple of weeks ago. I was

0:18actually

0:18behind making that, narrating that, editing

0:20it, producing it, so that's something I was

0:22working

0:23on over the Christmas break. And alongside

0:25that I've actually been working on

0:26something that's

0:27really really special that I'm going to be

0:28announcing today. Actually I've announced

0:30it

0:30already if you follow me on Twitter. It's

0:33the Tablo Tim website redesign. Essentially

0:35I've gone

0:36from top to bottom, completely redesigned

0:38my blog so that it's a better place for

0:40hosting videos

0:41and in this video I'm going to be showing

0:43you a bit more about how it works. The

0:45other thing I

0:46want to do is put a little bit of a focus

0:48on other creators in the space. There are

0:50lots of other

0:50people creating great YouTube content and I

0:53remember this time last year I was starting

0:55out

0:55the same journey with only 800 subscribers

0:57and here we are with thousands. I'd love to

1:00spread

1:00that love to lots of other great YouTubers.

1:02So I'm also going to be featuring three You

1:04Tubers I think

1:05you should be following who are just

1:07starting out on their journey, are doing

1:09great content

1:09and I think you're going to enjoy what they

1:11're making. So let's get stuck in.

1:13Okay so let's take a look at the website. I

1:15've actually got it here on screen and I've

1:18spent a

1:18lot of time actually redesigning this. It's

1:20actually been a passion of mine for the

1:22last

1:22three months actually. Back in November I

1:24realized with 2020.4 that YouTube just wasn

1:28't the best place

1:28to share videos and I know that sounds

1:30ironic but the real challenge with YouTube

1:32especially when

1:33you're trying to create learning content is

1:35that your video is always at the mercy of

1:37whatever

1:38other interests that person has and for me

1:40that's F1, Destiny, Call of Duty, Warzone

1:43and it doesn't

1:44matter how many videos I watch about Table

1:47au a Warzone video or an F1 video is only

1:49two videos

1:50away as a suggestion. So what I wanted to

1:52do is to create a safe place for the videos

1:54essentially

1:55somewhere where if you're actually

1:57searching for this content and you want to

1:58spend a bit of time

1:59focused on Tableau and learning Tableau my

2:02blog or my website could actually help with

2:04that and

2:04actually you can see it here on screen. It

2:07's hopefully what I think is a very fresh

2:09design,

2:10it's something very modern and it works

2:12great on mobile and on desktop. If I just

2:15show it to you

2:15here on screen if I just collapse this down

2:17here you can actually get a glimpse of what

2:19the mobile

2:20design looks like and it works great in

2:22both setups. This is absolutely designed

2:24with a view

2:25that sometimes when you hit that link you

2:27're actually on your smallest device and you

2:30might

2:30want to come back and look at it a little

2:32bit later. The other thing I've done is I

2:34've spent

2:34some time sort of categorizing my videos so

2:37the first thing you'll see when you arrive

2:39here is a

2:39home page, videos, playlists, blogs, a date

2:42and podcast. I'll talk a bit about that

2:43towards the

2:44end and then obviously social links. Now

2:47this I'm not one to sort of you know have

2:50social links all

2:51over the place this is the only place I

2:53have them literally. I was even adamant

2:55that I didn't need

2:56an about page but after talking to a few

2:57colleagues and friends about an about page

3:00seemed very

3:01necessary so I've created one but it's in

3:03very much order of sort of how I think you

3:05should

3:06interact with the channel so if you want to

3:08find out about me great. Newsletter is

3:10going to be the

3:10best way for people who maybe don't want to

3:12come to the blog every single day to check

3:14what's new

3:15they just want something in their inbox

3:17once a month just telling them what's on

3:18the blog

3:19nothing else no promo no marketing no sales

3:22bits just that. YouTube obviously if you

3:24know about

3:25this channel you hopefully already know

3:26about YouTube but for those who don't that

3:28's an

3:28alternative place to go but here's the

3:30thing it shouldn't really matter if you're

3:31on this blog

3:32everything on my YouTube channel is

3:34actually also going to be available here.

3:36The other thing is

3:37LinkedIn, Twitter, Tableau Public, Discord.

3:39Look I haven't published anything to Table

3:40au Public

3:41in a long while but people keep asking for

3:43my Tableau Public profile this year I'm

3:46obviously

3:46going to change that it's about time I

3:48publish something new to the public gallery

3:50this year so

3:51we're going to be doing that. In terms of

3:52the rest of the website when you arrive it

3:54's predominantly

3:55focusing on the latest big thing that I've

3:57done so in this case it's the 2020.4

4:00playlist and you

4:01can see here there's a big fat call to

4:02action to go ahead and watch it. As you

4:04scroll down you get

4:05a glimpse of the recent content in lots of

4:08different areas so the 2020.4 playlist is a

4:11playlist and of course you can see the

4:13three most recent playlists here as well.

4:15If I scroll down

4:17you can see the three most recent videos

4:19and the difference between a video and a

4:21playlist

4:21is essentially that a playlist is like a

4:23group of videos focused on one topic

4:25whereas a video is just

4:26that one topic on its own so that's sort of

4:28the distinction between the two when you

4:30sign up to

4:31a playlist you're signing up to something

4:33that's about an hour long maybe 30 minutes

4:35long when you

4:36sign up to a video you're just going to

4:37watch something very very brief now of

4:39course you might

4:40watch the playlist in chunks and do it in

4:42five minute chunks but it just gives you a

4:44hint of the

4:44type of content and the type of interaction

4:46that content needs so that's very much the

4:48difference

4:48between playlists and videos they're all

4:50videos but there's just that little bit of

4:52clarity between

4:53them. Last but not least I rarely write

4:55blogs and so I do actually have a blog

4:57right at the bottom

4:58here in fact if I go to the blogs pages

5:00right at the top of the page I actually

5:02call it out

5:03I much prefer to make videos and so you can

5:06see here that you know these are very very

5:08rare the

5:09last one I wrote was in April of last year

5:11it's nearly been a year since my last blog

5:13but you know

5:14when there is only one way to share

5:16something and that's written this is where

5:18you'll find it.

5:19If I go to some of the other pages now the

5:20playlist page I spend a lot of time on this

5:22I'm not going to

5:22lie I'm really passionate about the way

5:25this is laid out there's lots of effort

5:27going into

5:28making videos and I think it's very very

5:31easy to just throw videos onto YouTube and

5:33just throw

5:34videos and just record a ton of videos and

5:36you know it's very easy to do that it's

5:39very hard

5:40to make that content cohesive useful and

5:42actually give it a place where people enjoy

5:45coming back to

5:46it that's why people love going to things

5:47like Udemy that's why people love going to

5:50things like

5:50LinkedIn Learning because they create a

5:52space and a structured place for you to

5:55access that content.

5:56So what I've tried to do here is to try and

5:58create a version of that now of course this

6:00is entirely

6:01free content so it's not the same standard

6:03as Udemy with all the bookmarks and

6:05chapters but

6:06it's pretty much you know all there and I'm

6:08going to try and replicate that as much as

6:10possible so

6:11if I go into the 2020.4 playlist you'll see

6:13that the playlist has this big feature page

6:15which tells

6:16you what you're in for now because this

6:18website was designed after 2020.4 was

6:21released and this

6:22video here is actually just the first video

6:25but what I'm hoping to do is in the future

6:27this video

6:27will be a summary view so this will be a

6:29five minute ten minute summary of the

6:31entire release

6:32telling you what to expect then you'll have

6:34a playlist of items and obviously you'll

6:36see a

6:37summary of how many videos are involved how

6:39long what kind of difficulty level this is

6:42really

6:42calling out to some future content I have

6:44planned for intermediate and advanced users

6:47so this is a

6:47really really great place to sort of come

6:49and learn Tableau and of course when you

6:51click on any

6:51of these you click on them it takes you to

6:53the video straight away the video loads

6:55from YouTube

6:56so if you're used to seeing my content in

6:57YouTube and you're logged into YouTube you

6:59're going to get

7:00all the same benefits of YouTube knowing

7:01what you've watched if you're a YouTube

7:03premium

7:04subscriber you can of course download these

7:06for offline viewing which is another great

7:08sort of

7:08quality of life improvement but of course

7:11when I switch between these you'll see that

7:13the page

7:14doesn't reload it just lets you hop

7:15straight to the next video that was a

7:17really really important

7:18thing that I wanted to do I hate that

7:19friction when you go from one page to the

7:22next everything

7:22refreshes who knows what will happen if you

7:24're really focused and you just want to

7:26flick through

7:27these you really can just do that now one

7:29thing I'm also going to do is at the moment

7:31I've just

7:31got a notes section but in the future I'll

7:34also have a files tab and a transcript try

7:37because

7:37accessibility is important and getting

7:39access to the content I'm using in these

7:41videos is also

7:42important so once I have that set up in

7:44Dropbox or data.world I'm going to

7:46introduce that to the

7:48future playlists that are coming forward so

7:50that's going to be something really

7:52exciting to see and

7:53of course lots of the content at the moment

7:55is just a bulk export from my YouTube

7:57channel so

7:58some of these descriptions and I can't type

8:00I can't spell either so I'm really sorry

8:02for any

8:03typos or mistakes you see in here but once

8:05I get a chance to go back and revisit all

8:07the content that

8:08I exported I'll be cleaning that up over

8:10time and the playlist is broken down into

8:12sections desktop

8:14tableau prep server online now the key

8:16thing I've done here is desktop and web

8:18altering and now

8:19one section I very much believe that this

8:21year tableau online will become the best

8:23version of

8:24tableau to use along with the web altering

8:26experience so I'm starting to merge the

8:29definition of those two because a lot of

8:31what's possible in desktop is now possible

8:32in web

8:33altering so that's why those two are

8:34together people have asked me about that

8:36and some people

8:37are even skeptical that that's possible

8:38like it's been possible for a while so if

8:40you haven't been

8:41in tune with tableau definitely check it

8:43out definitely make sure everything is

8:45lined up for

8:46you so you can enjoy that too now the other

8:48thing to bear in mind is when we go to the

8:50videos page

8:51you'll just see these one-off videos and

8:53these are very much um you know isolated

8:55videos and they

8:56don't just contain content that I've

8:58created some of the content I've created on

9:00tableau's channel

9:01is on here this path to normalcy is the

9:03video I called out a little bit earlier on

9:05we've also got

9:06this 2020.4 playlist that I did for the

9:09information labs this is actually a two-

9:11hour live stream

9:12believe it or not and if you go in there I

9:14've spent some time doing timestamps so you

9:17don't

9:17have to worry where anything is it's all

9:19there you can access it and these actually

9:21send you off

9:22to youtube when I exported the links this

9:24is just how they work so the last thing I

9:26want to do is

9:27feature some youtubers who are also

9:29creating great tableau content this time

9:31last year I was starting

9:32out on my journey with youtube and tableau

9:34and essentially one of the hardest

9:36challenges is

9:37actually just getting people to see your

9:39videos because you're creating great

9:40content but youtube's

9:42algorithm just hates sharing your content

9:44if you're a new youtuber so one of the best

9:47ways to

9:47help out is if you find someone who's good

9:49on youtube share it far and wide and what I

9:52want to

9:52do now is show you three great youtubers

9:54that have been sharing great content that I

9:56think you should

9:56check out um first of all if you just go to

9:59the social tab here and go to my channel

10:01page you'll

10:02find that if you scroll down the channel

10:04page I actually have those youtubers

10:05featured right here

10:07in this great channels to follow section on

10:09my site so if we just scroll down here and

10:12we just

10:12look at this the first one is sequel bell

10:14now if we go to her channel it's actually

10:16really really

10:17great she's been on youtube since 2020 she

10:20's already got a thousand subscribers and

10:22she's

10:22got some absolutely stunning content if you

10:24look at some of the view counts in some of

10:26these videos

10:27they are absolute bangers bearing in mind

10:28he only just started a few months ago this

10:31is a really

10:32great place to go to find out and see some

10:34variety in lots of different ways the same

10:36video can be

10:37done by different creators and she's got a

10:39really great style for explaining things as

10:41well and I

10:41think it's just great that she's also got

10:43power bi experience she's able to do some

10:45comparisons that

10:46I just can't do because I've never used

10:48power bi and so it's good to have that

10:50variety go check out

10:51her channel subscribe to the content and

10:53make sure she's in your inbox every time

10:55she posts a video

10:56if you go to her back page here it says

10:58that she posts weekly videos and she also

11:00has something on

11:01teachable that you can subscribe to and pay

11:03for and then get something sort of suited

11:05for you so

11:05check out her channel and whatever she's up

11:08to again it's great content I've watched it

11:10I've

11:10really enjoyed it and check it out the next

11:13channel I want to focus on is another great

11:15channel this is a much much newer channel

11:18and what I'd love for everyone to do here

11:20is to absolutely

11:20go to his page and follow it it's data with

11:23barra now I hope I'm saying these names

11:25correctly as

11:26well like I never know how to pronounce

11:28youtube names now I've learned something

11:30from data with

11:31barra here and it's actually his thumbnails

11:33his thumbnails are on point now if you're a

11:36youtuber

11:36you'll know what I'm talking about if you

11:38don't it's pretty hard to understand but

11:40what I'm going

11:40to say is his thumbnails are very

11:42descriptive they get to the point and they

11:44make you want to

11:45click and watch the content but when you

11:47actually get into the content the content's

11:49even better

11:50he's got a great design a great theme here

11:52on this channel it's really well done and

11:54he explains it

11:55from a very technical point of view when he

11:57talks about the tablo file types I did a

11:59video on this

11:59I did actual playlists on this but he's

12:01done it in a completely different way they

12:03're really different

12:04twang and I think you should really go in

12:06there and check out the content I

12:07personally really

12:08really enjoyed it it makes me think more

12:10about the way I'm recording videos and

12:12doing content

12:13it makes me realize there's lots of

12:14different ways of articulating the same

12:16point but what's great

12:17about youtube is that instead of me having

12:19to think about all those ways I can do it

12:21my way

12:21and you can also enjoy barrow's way as well

12:23so that's another great channel to check

12:25out

12:26literally just started in the last few

12:28months last four months only on 200

12:30subscribers come on let's

12:31get everyone on our channel to go on here

12:34and subscribe you'll have three great you

12:36tubers coming

12:37into your inbox almost weekly or monthly

12:40now if I go back to my channel page here

12:42and I go to

12:42Andre is actually a close friend and

12:45colleague of mine Andre is a great

12:47developer now he's been

12:48creating lots of developer focused content

12:51especially for tablo he does this on the

12:54information lab channel and also on his own

12:56channel here and what's great about his

12:58content

12:59is that it's for those people who are

13:00really super technical people who want to

13:02understand

13:03cloud technology developing for tablo

13:06extensions apis andres channel has really

13:09got this on lock

13:10his best series is his embedding tablo

13:12series that's one of the best things I've

13:14watched

13:15on youtube related to tablo involving apis

13:17or development so absolutely go check out

13:20his channel

13:21make sure you subscribe that's three great

13:23channels you're going to absolutely enjoy I

13:25guarantee you'll enjoy all the content they

13:27produce because in many ways it's better if

13:29not

13:30like far better than what I'm making so go

13:33check it out go subscribe and hopefully you

13:35'll have four

13:36youtubers creating great content for you on

13:39a frequent basis again that's pretty much

13:41it for

13:42the video it's been a bit of a long one I

13:43try to keep it short but in the end it didn

13:45't quite work

13:46out so here we are this is what it is so if

13:48you've liked the video you know what to do

13:512021 is here

13:53we've got lots of content planned and lots

13:55of changes still to come lots of ideas

13:57still to

13:58come out and shared I've got lots of

14:00different ideas buzzing in my mind but I'm

14:02just glad we've

14:03got tablotim.com out and now we have a home

14:05for our videos go check it out if you haven

14:08't

14:08done so already otherwise I'll catch you in

14:10the next video