Re-Upload - Tableau Next Dashboard Experience [Reposted]
Tableau Next finally lets you build buttons and actions without sets and hidden sheets, and that genuinely made me happy.
- Pulse-style metrics in Tableau Next are standalone objects: you can drop them onto a dashboard as equal citizens, but you can't use a metric definition to build a visualisation.
- Dashboard interactivity is largely automatic because the semantic model drives cross-filtering by default, removing the old cross-data-source action setup.
- Tableau Next supports structured containers and linked (synchronised) assets but does not allow floating or overlaying objects.
- Buttons and actions are far simpler to set up than in Tableau Desktop, supporting navigation to another dashboard, another page or a URL without building hidden sheets or set actions.
- The grid layout feels constrained compared to Sigma's fluid canvas, which auto-rearranges objects and reclaims space when you move things around.
- Recap and Salesforce documentation0:00
- Metrics inside semantic models1:15
- Starting a dashboard and rant on hacks3:19
- Pages, panels and properties5:45
- Adding visualisations to the canvas6:57
- Adding metrics and layout limits10:26
- Sigma layout comparison11:49
- Lists, toggles and text13:33
- Buttons and actions17:02
- Containers and linked assets18:51
- Preview, save and interactivity22:26
- Wrap-up and next steps23:29
0:00Okay, we're back.
0:01Good evening, as always.
0:03We're back in Tableau Next.
0:04Um we are here to make a video about the dashboarding capabilities.
0:08We've looked at metrics, we've looked at visualizations
0:11We've looked at semantic models, we've looked at the sort of data component of it.
0:16We decided we're going to go back to the data cloud component after we've done the visualization piece.
0:22I'm sort of gonna revisit the whole platform as if I'm a Salesforce user.
0:26But for now I just want to finish off the arc and show you what the visualization capability is
0:29capabilities alike.
0:31I found this very useful piece of documentation that actually shows this visually in a diagram.
0:35So I'll put a link to this in the description.
0:37It's very good for sort of showing you all the different ponens.
0:40And remember earlier on I was googling what all the different terms are.
0:43Well it's got them all here, DMO, DLO, CIO, or CSV stored as DLO.
0:48Essentially all of these concepts are actually documented here.
0:52I don't know why I didn't think of uh going to look at these, but it's a very good explainer, and this is why you have to approach Tableau Next
1:00as a Salesforce user because it's very much bringing the Salesforce concept with the Tableau innovation as it were.
1:07Anyway, you'll see why I put that in inverted comments based on this series.
1:11Okay, so let's go back
1:13to the home page.
1:15Let's go to the tablet in Workspace.
1:17And now that we are here, you can see the hierarchy of what we've created before.
1:23We've got uh tables, we've got semantic models.
1:25We don't have the metrics here, but that's because they live inside of the semantic models themselves.
1:30So if I go to the sample superstore model,
1:32We will see that up here I have one metric called profit and profit itself is written in this specific way.
1:39Now there are some features that aren't available in this version, and I haven't updated the dataset just yet
1:45uh in order for it to take advantage of the comparisons um and and the comparisons you can't quite control it like you can in Tableau Pulse where you can fix it and and so on all of that.
1:55So yeah this is
1:56basically Tableau Pulse but with less features.
1:58I still don't understand how that makes sense.
2:02But what you can see here is the metric.
2:04Now what I want to test very very quickly is if we go back to let's say um
2:10Let's say this table.
2:11The table chart is going to be the simplest place to do this.
2:14Can I bring in my metric into this view?
2:17So what I'll do is I'll go into um
2:21Let's actually collapse these.
2:22Remember these uh purple ones are headers.
2:24You see, I don't actually get to see the metric here.
2:26So I don't believe the metrics can't can actually be brought in.
2:31Um I don't I don't um
2:35Even if I refresh the semantic model, I don't believe I can I can actually add these in.
2:41I I I th I think I think metrics are standalone
2:45Sort of separate things.
2:46They can be brought into a dashboard, but they can't necessarily be brought into an actual visualization.
2:52I.
2:52e.
2:52you can't use the metric definition itself to build a visualization, which
2:58Isn't so ideal.
2:59Um maybe I am missing something.
3:01Maybe I'm just missing a specific uh setting.
3:03I don't think I am because I've I've I've
3:05browsed pretty much every every component here but I'm not I'm not seeing that um you can obviously clear the visualization I don't want to do that um you can toggle activities and so on and so forth but yeah this is it it's it's really quite sparse so I don't think that feature is possible
3:19Let's go back to Tableau Tim and you see the dashboard section here has no spaces, so let's go ahead and start building a dashboard.
3:27Let's go to add and select a new dashboard.
3:30Now I will say a couple of things about dashboarding.
3:34I think as analysts, especially in the tablet community, we spend way too much time in the dashboard.
3:41Way, way too much time.
3:43Like dashboarding itself, formatting, tidying things up, setting things up, uh hacks, tricks, set actions, uh sheet actions, parameter actions, set like just the whole list of stuff is just is just
3:57Too much and frankly, a bit controversial.
4:01None of it, I think, should be as complex as it is.
4:04These feel these feel like hacks built on hacks to enable us to do things.
4:08And whilst some of them are very good capabilities, they are nowhere near accessible enough to the everyday user.
4:15Many of them are buried in settings, many of them are buried in menus.
4:19And to to actually use them
4:21You have to have this ability of abstracting data in your mind.
4:25And I genuinely believe that that is a skill that very few people have.
4:29You have to be
4:30uh like a very t talented individual to be able to visualize your path through a problem with data and then figure out what components you're going to put together.
4:39More often than not you're reading a tutorial and following the steps to get to solve your problem.
4:44So what you become is good at
4:45searching for solutions, but you're not actually good at sort of abstracting the problem and actually modeling that solution out of the data, which is why
4:54You tend to see a lot of calculations, a lot of table calculats, all of that stuff to solve very simple data modeling problems that in my opinion should be fixed further back in the semantic model in the data pipeline.
5:05so that your data is not just available to Tableau, but it's available to everyone in the organization who might want to use that data.
5:11Anyway, rant over.
5:12Here in this visualization piece
5:14I'm not going to be doing any of that.
5:16I'm purely just going to be using the static um features on the page.
5:21You'll see me.
5:22I've made a video about hacks.
5:23I hate them.
5:24I don't think they should be in the product.
5:25So seeing as you've got a blank canvas, my honest opinion is that we shouldn't be bringing any of those hacks here.
5:31Yes, we should have things like set actions and parameter actions, but they should be far simpler and far easier to set up
5:38I haven't tried the visualization feature, so I don't know I don't even know if this supports it, but we're gonna go ahead and find out.
5:44So
5:45The first thing to find out is obviously you can add different pages.
5:48So you can see here I'm adding different pages.
5:50These are Century Workers tabs.
5:51You get a little drop-down where you can clone and rename them so you can copy everything on a page which is quite straightforward.
5:57Okay.
5:57So we'll go ahead and delete.
5:59um some of this there is an option here to make it first I think this just moves it to the front um which obviously messes around with naming if you've named them um by default but anyway that's that's fine
6:08Okay.
6:09Now you've got this um panel over here.
6:11You can toggle the right panel on and off.
6:13So that allows you to bring out this design panel.
6:15It's a bit a jar because normally this panel is on the left hand side of the normal Tableau experience, but I believe this right hand panel is probably more akin to the Salesforce ecosystem.
6:23So that's fine.
6:25Over here on the right hand side you can go to content and in the content you can see you've got your filters that you can enable here.
6:30So you've got these sort of the side panel sort of terminology here on the dashboard.
6:35Okay
6:36Now we've got the back and forward buttons so you can undo and redo and do everything you want to do.
6:41You can also play around with dashboard properties.
6:43Dashboard properties, I believe, are just this element here on the right hand side.
6:47Okay, so until we bring
6:49the viz out onto the dashboard this this is basically the same thing that we're seeing over here we've done add pages now we can click on visualization so
6:57To bring a visualization, you click on that button, just click on this button here, and it gives you a blue box.
7:02You then place that blue box where you want to, and then once it's placed the box, you go and add the visualization, and then you can choose
7:09from visualizations that are currently in your space.
7:12So this is quite nice because you can click on each visualization, you can even see the relevant field.
7:17It's giving you the metadata.
7:18So you're kind of um let's say atomizing the experience and you're specifically picking
7:23And it's always showing you the metrics that are being used at each one.
7:27This is important because if you're doing this of a semantic model
7:31The semantic model will drive the behavior of the charts behind the scenes and the filters as well as you use them.
7:37So you should be you should be universal.
7:39You shouldn't have to worry about
7:41getting everything to speak nicely.
7:42In in Tableau you have this concept of um you know cross data source uh uh like actions and filters and stuff like that.
7:49A sort of like
7:50old school tableau in many ways now that the data model is there you can sort of define relationships and and more or less do much of what you need to there.
7:58So for now I'm just going to go ahead and bring my table select
8:01and you'll load the table into this tiny little space.
8:04Obviously it's a bit crammed, so if we just size this up and we bring it out, you'll see that the table gets a bit more space.
8:10And it does do a nice job of sort of spacing out each of the components quite nicely.
8:14I'm not having to do
8:15that myself it's a little bit of nice web technology there to make that work.
8:19I will go ahead and put this here on the right hand side and then we'll go bring another visualization.
8:23I will come up here.
8:25I always forget this when I click on this I expect the pop-up but actually what I have to do is move my mouse out and then you know move it.
8:31Now if I try and put this over the existing one you see it goes red so I have to make sure I put it on this grid now.
8:37I I will immediately realize that some people who don't like that because they use floating designs in the Tableau world in order to to fix things.
8:46I personally hate floating designs.
8:48Uh I've been known to uh you know basically swear swear by uh layout containers and and you know flo floating dashboards also cause tons of issues with caching and performance.
8:58So it's just not a good thing.
8:59So anyway
9:00Um I like this uh it long story short.
9:03So we can bring out a dot matrix.
9:05It's not a very great chart, but it's fine.
9:07We can
9:08set it up and so what I'll do I'll just I just bring out like a couple of these I just put them in what makes logical sense and I will have to say like this
9:15I think pretty much anyone who knows how to use a mouse and keyboard can do this component.
9:21So I do appreciate that this works.
9:23I'm look I'm trying to remember which charts I've made actually work.
9:27That's why I'm clicking through them.
9:28I'm like, wait, did I like that or did I hate it?
9:31Um so there's uh there's another chart and then what we'll just keep doing is keep bringing uh more a few more visualizations in.
9:38uh add a visualizations, we'll do a histogram, why not?
9:41Um this is gonna be the most disjointed charts you've ever seen or we'll get it to fit the same um
9:48Height and width and I'm I'm doing a bit of layout like um planning here where I'm leaving a bit of space on either side.
9:55We'll do the line chat here
9:57And so, you know, here I am.
9:59Um this looks pretty good.
10:00Now, one of the things I was trying to ask myself is how do I zoom in and outs you can't really do that on Tableau Desktop, but i what I what I do in a browser is I hit command or control plus and minus.
10:11And that allows me to do this.
10:12And that does kind of get me a little bit more space, but it also makes everything too small for you to view in this recording.
10:18So I'll keep it at this size, but you can play with that to give yourself more real estate.
10:22to zoom out and zoom in and just just step back a bit from the design.
10:26Now it's time to add a title.
10:28So if we go look at these other components, if then we've got metrics, we can actually bring in a metric here.
10:33So metrics, these were defined in the semantic model
10:36I should just have uh first of all I get to choose a semantic model.
10:40It would be a bit weird to choose something that's not from the same semantic model.
10:43I wonder how that would interact, maybe another video, but hit select
10:47You'll see profit is there and now we can bring in profit and it brings in the pulse metric.
10:53So the pulse metric is an equal citizen on the dashboard with everything else.
10:57Now if I was really building these up nicely, I'd make this nice and small
11:01And we'd bring it um let's bring it up here.
11:03I can't do that.
11:05The frustrating thing is it doesn't rearrange um the dashboard for you.
11:08So in Sigma Analytics, which actually has something
11:12like this.
11:13It does rearrange stuff.
11:14So if you want to put something there, you don't you don't have to first resize everything to get it to fit.
11:19And so
11:20that would be a nice thing.
11:21There's also no sort of control to be able to let's say you decide to move um these these two down um
11:28There's no easy way of just creating the space up here.
11:31What I think you'd have to do is you can't even hold shift.
11:34Um so yeah, you'd have to drag these um up and down
11:39What I will do is I will I'll record a snippet of Sigma Analytics, their canvas, and show you how much more flexible that is compared to this.
11:49I'll insert it right now.
11:50So here's the
11:51uh Sigma video as it were.
11:54I've got a table and a pie chart, very simple uh visualizations.
11:58Um this is what the layout experience looks like.
12:00Actually it's very similar to Tableau next.
12:02You've got the sort of grid view that you see before
12:05And you can grab these and lay them out.
12:06But actually as you can see it's a little bit it's a little bit more fluid.
12:09I can use the whole canvas.
12:10I'm not sort of pinned into just that tiny little grid that they have.
12:14And if I want to put this above
12:16I am actually able to do so and it it will sort of behave.
12:18If I if I try and put this at the very top I can't because there's nothing um there's not enough space there.
12:23But if I do this, let's say
12:24And I try and bring this here at the very top.
12:27You'll see it swaps around.
12:28So this is what I'm hoping to see in Tableau next.
12:30Just if something's already at the top, just allow me to flip.
12:33them around and basically let me let me sort of play around with the setup.
12:37Another thing that Sigma is quite good, let's say that I've um been really bad with my sort of planning and I've put these two like this and then I decide I want more space at the top
12:45uncover to the axis and drag that line down and it brings it down as well so it's really really really flexible in terms of how things work.
12:54Now unlike um well very much like Tableau Next actually
12:57You can't put things on top of each other, okay, so it doesn't it doesn't want you to do that.
13:01But you've got a bunch of other sort of general layout options and you can
13:05uh come here to the workbook settings change the layout change the spacing and you've got a whole sort of bunch of other things and this is also in the browser so
13:12Hey, if Sigma can do it, Tableau can do it too.
13:14Anyway, back to Tableau next.
13:16Okay, so you've hopefully seen that.
13:18Um you'll see that there's a lot more sort of flexibility with a
13:21with a layout canvas.
13:22They also don't allow overlaying, but they've really taken the canvas idea a lot further.
13:27And Sigma is a genuine competitor to Tableau Next, so I think um they could learn a few things from Sigma.
13:32Anyway
13:33Um what we can do is we can keep going here across the top.
13:37So let's look at lists.
13:38So a list is sort of interesting because
13:41It brings this and select a field or parameter.
13:45So let's go ahead and select this one.
13:48And oh okay.
13:49So you select your data model, then you select um
13:53Let's select region and there we have okay so a list is like a filter a drop down and then it allows us to um
14:04This is annoying because you can't preview this.
14:06This is sort of entirely designed.
14:08So to preview it I have to actually do that and then I get to see the list.
14:12So
14:13Let's see if I hit done.
14:14Does that actually do anything?
14:16It does.
14:16So a list is like a filter basically.
14:19It allows you to filter
14:21to one specific region.
14:22I don't know why that's just not called a filter.
14:26So slightly strange.
14:28But okay, uh yeah that works.
14:31Uh hit done
14:33You can also make this say exclude, so it does not equal contain.
14:37So it's a very sort of dynamic filter, it does kind of what you'd expect.
14:43Uh that's fine.
14:44Okay, cool.
14:45Alright, so let's hit edit.
14:48So we're kind of going between preview and edit.
14:51Save I think saves it.
14:53So we'll see see what that actually m does in a minute.
14:57Um let's keep on going up here across as up.
14:59So you got list, then you got toggle.
15:06Clicking on it then coming onto the thing is it's so broken.
15:08Let's let's select segment.
15:10I guess toggle shows you um it's basically the same thing.
15:13It's like one of the types of things
15:15And again if I go to preview, hit consumer, it should only see consumer corporate.
15:21So this is like a a drop-down list, but instead of you you get a nicer interface so you can switch on the components.
15:27This is very nice.
15:28I like this because in Tableau you have
15:30to build this and it's a pain in the neck.
15:31This is exactly what I want to avoid in Tableau.
15:34I don't want to use sets for this.
15:35I don't want to use actions for this.
15:37It should just be a button.
15:38Thank you very much Tableau Next for building this
15:41Like high praise for this, genuinely gently, now bring it to Tableau, please dear God.
15:45Um okay, let's hit edit
15:49Let's go to text.
15:50Okay, this is where we would put our title, so this is fine, and then you'd can I edit in here?
15:55I can't edit in there.
15:56I have to go over here to the right hand side so we can say title and um
16:02Let's set this to 32 pixels and yeah okay fine oh you can insert data let's try and do that okay so then you have to go to semantic model again
16:15And then let's say you want to do total sales, does it give you that?
16:19Um the sum, okay, no results, hexay, none.
16:24Um so this is nice.
16:26So being able to say hey look all the sales on my dashboards are 2.
16:3033 million that is that is pretty good
16:33Um and you can put that in the text um on a new line and it's it's got this sort of dynamic pill component which I quite like.
16:42Um
16:43And yeah, you can you can kind of make it um a bit a bit stylized and and and stuff, but it's fairly okay.
16:50It's fairly average, okay?
16:52Um
16:53What else?
16:53Let's let's let's really try all the different things.
16:56I'm just I'm running out of space and it's not easy to do layout here.
16:59So let's see toggle.
17:00We've done text.
17:01Buttons.
17:02Oh yes, buttons, not having to build sheets that do things.
17:05That's another really good one.
17:07But
17:07What is the control here?
17:09So you've got the button label, the size, the horizontal, the vertical.
17:12Okay, so you can choose a spacing.
17:14Very good.
17:15What about the design?
17:17You can change the color, you can you can give it the border.
17:19Wow, you can make it a hard square or not.
17:23You can give it a my answer is really hardcore button design, I have to say, like a lot of love has been shown to the
17:30the button capability.
17:32Um we can make our really rounded button because of course rounded corners are a big thing so it's it's good that you can make rounded buttons.
17:40Um design actions now.
17:42Add an action.
17:43To create a dynamic user experience by adding action.
17:45So let's go ahead and hit action.
17:47So you can say navigate to or Salesforce Flyer.
17:50Okay.
17:50So you can do navigation, destination, dashboard, search to dashboard.
17:54So you can take someone to another dashboard.
17:57How about um oh this is interesting.
18:00So I can take someone to another dashboard.
18:03I could take someone to a dashboard page.
18:06So dashboard page is going to be this dashboard.
18:09Okay, so if I add a page on here and go back and then go back to page one and then select my button.
18:17Go to actions.
18:18Oh god, it remember forgot everything.
18:21So dashboard page select the page page one and two dashboard goes to a separate dashboard.
18:27You get to search that dashboard and then once you've selected that dashboard you can then choose the page.
18:32So that's sort of mode number two, another dashboard, another page on that dashboard, and then uh last one is a URL.
18:38That makes a lot of sense if you want to send someone to a link or something that's
18:41Formatted but data that's always been possible, so that's that's nice.
18:45Okay.
18:45So there's the actions, very nice and simple, nothing uh crazy.
18:49Uh last one, container
18:52Oh my god.
18:54Have I just discovered containers?
18:57So you have to know I've made a video about containers on YouTube and it's very, very popular.
19:01So
19:01Let's let's go and drop this here.
19:03And I think what a container is ultimately going to be, if I if I guess this correctly, is an asset I can put stuff into, like this.
19:14And I uh uh like that, so that works, okay.
19:20And then
19:22I can't it didn't let me straddle.
19:24Okay, so look you see if I try and make it smaller than the objects then it won't let me.
19:28Okay, so then now
19:31Here we go, there's my container.
19:33So I'm really sorry for anyone who loves floating.
19:36That is not supported, but me over here with structured content and containers, very happy person
19:43Very, very happy person.
19:44Um okay, so I love it.
19:47Um it the dashboarding is good.
19:50Um
19:51It's definitely got a lot of big user improvements.
19:55I think actions feel a lot easier to set up.
19:59The layout feels a bit
20:01constrained in some respects.
20:03I can't I can't just move things fleer freely around.
20:06I have to be very organized.
20:08I have to plan my dashboard and if I get something where I don't like it, I can't just move it off.
20:13What I have to do is sort of
20:14do this like jiggle where I'm like I have to you know s scroll and scroll scroll and hold my mouse at the same time which is like a trick.
20:23It's a if I could show you my hand it's
20:26It's not a very comfortable um position to hold your mask, but once you've moved stuff around, it's very easy then to like size things up, he says, whilst getting red marks everywhere.
20:36And uh yeah, you can you can kind of make your way around the platform very easily.
20:41So this is this is quite nice.
20:42I like this, this is not too bad.
20:44Obviously, I'm not trying to do a great design here, I'm just trying to play around with the features, get a bearing
20:49The one last thing is when you click on a chart, you'll see that you have the option to delete it and you'll move it to a different place.
20:57So add to a page or move to a page.
20:59So you can add this the same chart to another page as well.
21:02Hit add.
21:02Obviously it puts it on page two as well.
21:04So if we go ahead and look at that, it's in the exact same place on page two.
21:08So if you're trying to get something standardized across different pages, that is a nice feature
21:13Um the other thing I'll add is you can um if I oh actually that's interesting there's an unlinked feature here so I believe here what's what's going on is
21:23This chart is linked with the other one.
21:25So if I select unlink, then basically that chart is now going to be its own component.
21:30So this borrows from
21:32I think it borrows from a a concept in Sigma.
21:34So Sigma has something called linked assets.
21:36So linked asset or linked elements essentially are things that exist in multiple places at the same time.
21:42Because they're synchronized, it's basically like treating it like it's the same thing.
21:45So you can create one metric.
21:47create linked copies and if you make a change to any one of them it makes it to all of them which is quite nice when you're building a dashboard and so yeah um really really good to see that so let's
21:57Let's have a mooch around some of these.
21:59So we've got this one, obviously it had a linked component here.
22:01We can move it to a page on its own or add it to a page.
22:11you'll see that it opens up that same panel we saw before.
22:13So that is that is sort of doing the right behaviour.
22:16And if I hit this button you'll see you can delete it as well.
22:18And if I go back we get that back in.
22:20So
22:21These are all the options here across the top.
22:23That is really it at this moment in time.
22:26It doesn't feel like there's much more.
22:27And uh if we go ahead to preview that you see this is what you get, and then you go ahead and hit save
22:32And there we go.
22:33We have our nice beautiful dashboard.
22:37It's far from beautiful, but it touches on all the features that we wanted to do.
22:41Now
22:42The thing I would love to to know a bit more about is interactivity.
22:47It's very clear that by default everything is related on here.
22:51So if you just saw I clicked on one one data item and everything filtered.
22:55If I go ahead and click on
22:56This green one you'll see everything filters again.
22:59So if I click on appliances it filters again.
23:02If I click on this one it filters again.
23:04So
23:05It's it's very reactive, it's very um responsive, that is almost by default, and I think this is enabled by the semantic model.
23:13One thing I'll do in a future video is test how it behaves when you are using different data models in the same dashboard because I think that's possible.
23:22They're essentially two separate things.
23:24So it'll be interesting to see how it handles those filtering capabilities there.
23:28I haven't done much with the buttons, but we can do a lot more.
23:31And so what I will do probably now is look I've played around with this, I kind of know my way around it
23:38I think what makes sense is to in a separate video do the little bit of what I would call like a dashboard build.
23:45So I'll take something I've done in Tableau and then I'll try and recreate it here in Tableau next so you can see them side by side
23:51and see what the experience is like.
23:52It won't be super fancy or anything that would go on Tableau Public, but it would just be like a standard bog standard business dashboard built off superstore styles and I think that'll be a really good way.
24:02of um browsiness so there we have it that's in the entire pipeline the tablet workspace now has a dashboard of course I didn't name it so let's go ahead and rename it uh let's go ahead and hit edit
24:13Um when I double clicked that my Grammarly kicked in, so let's go ahead and call this um first dashboard.
24:22Um I should have really built something nice.
24:24That's um a big thing on YouTube where you show people a nice beautiful dashboard and then you go out and make a video and get three hundred thousand views.
24:32I I never have time to make those kinds of videos.
24:34I just don't have um
24:36The time and patience to do the editing.
24:38So here we are.
24:40Now this is this is the first dashboard.
24:42I think we've covered the whole entire experience.
24:43And by the way, if you click on the top, a little drop-down here
24:46You see all the assets nicely.
24:48So if you wanted to, you could go all the way back to any component.
24:51And it's right there.
24:52So listen, I will say this.
24:55I really like large parts of this, i.
24:58e.
24:58the vision and the experience.
25:00If if the experience didn't have any bugs
25:04And it brought all the small things that I've highlighted so far in the last five videos to the experience and just ironed them out and just made them good.
25:12I think this is a compelling product.
25:14It really is.
25:15It's all in the browser, no software, it works pretty simply.
25:17It's kind of taken all the hacky things I what I wanted to do on the dashboard there.
25:21That really made me happy, genuinely, genuinely, because when I make videos, this is this is the stuff that comes up in comments.
25:26Hey, how did you do that?
25:27How did you do this?
25:28And I'm like
25:29How do I even begin to explain to someone that they need to understand set actions?
25:33And how would that person know to search for that?
25:36And how do I build them up to understand set actions if they don't even know what
25:39actions are so first I've got a you know there's so many moving pieces to learn what you need to learn which is why it takes so long and it costs so much to build dashboards dashboards should be fast and easy for every single person
25:51and bringing it to business users who d have no expectations that I think is going to be a great thing and this has a lot of ingredients for that.
25:57Where it's not ideal is the places where it's not quite right.
26:01And to be fair, that's mostly been in the visualization space.
26:04But the thing is about visualizations.
26:06is they're either wrong or they're right.
26:08There's no middle ground.
26:09You can't have a visualization that's mostly right.
26:11There's no such thing.
26:13And because of that, the level of critique, the level of scrutiny is
26:16always going to be like through the roof on a visualization.
26:19That is essentially what the data community is sort of predicated on.
26:23Accuracy builds trust, trust builds
26:25Um, you know, a little bit of compliance in the organizations, people are willing to do what you ask them to do if they can trust that you're going to build them good solutions as a result of following that governance and those rules.
26:35So
26:36Long story short, now it's time to get into the platform properly.
26:41We've gone through like a speed run through the sort of core components of the platform.
26:45It's now time to go back here to this app launcher
26:49and really start to think about Tableau Next as a genuine citizen inside of Salesforce.
26:55And one of the first places to do that will be in Data Cloud.
26:58So I think there's a couple of things we should do this week just to sort of really iron it out.
27:02Number one
27:03Build out a nice dashboard, get that built, put that out.
27:06We'll probably do that tomorrow, immediately after this fair.
27:08If I have time, I might even do it tonight
27:11Then after that, we're going to do a deep dive into the data cloud component.
27:15So unfortunately you won't see any visualizations.
27:17I will be talking a lot about concepts that I'm familiar with through other databases like Snowflake to try and draw analogies for people who have experience working with databases.
27:25And then we'll work our way through Data Cloud.
27:28And I think we'll also start to think more about Salesforce.
27:31So if you've ever worked with Salesforce, the classic accounts, opportunity, all of that stuff.
27:35Um that stuff is actually quite powerful.
27:37It's really why Salesforce has been successful.
27:39And if you've never sort of worked with Salesforce, um you wouldn't know that.
27:43So it's also worthwhile understanding.
27:46why that part of Salesforce really needs the analytics component plugged on top.
27:50For a long time it's been EinSen Analytics.
27:52Now it's probably going to be Tableau Next and to be able to just
27:56take Tableau and put it on top of Salesforce, I think is a huge opportunity for the Salesforce user and I think that's who this series is for and that's who this video is for and ultimately that's who this product is for
28:07So thanks for watching this visualization video.
28:10Next up we'll do a quick like bake-off between Tableau Desktop and Tableau Next in terms of building a visualization.
28:17We'll try and get the data exactly the same between the two.
28:19I'll upload
28:20the same data into Tableau, we'll play those two side by side and then we'll see and what the experience is like.
28:26Thanks for watching.
28:26I'll see you in the next one
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