# S3 E1: Welcome back to a new season

> This is content from just-tim, the data-and-analytics channel by Tim Ngwena (formerly 'Tableau Tim'). Tim has 12+ years of hands-on BI experience and covers Tableau most of all, plus Power BI, Looker, Hex, SQL and data modelling, the analytics industry, and the craft of doing the job — always tool-agnostic and honest about the trade-offs.

- **Author:** Tim Ngwena (just-tim, https://just-tim.com/about)
- **Published:** 2024-04-22
- **Format:** Video · 38 min watch · transcript available
- **Topics:** Industry trends, Community, Certification
- **Tools:** Tableau (blueprint, hyper)
- **Canonical:** https://just-tim.com/posts/s3-e1-welcome-back-to-a-new-season
- **Watch:** https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dNJA3RgVWZE

Welcome to the first episode of season three of the Datum Podcast. Ravi and I reflect on our personal and professional 2019, recap Tableau Conference in Vegas, run through every episode of last season, share our Spotify listener stats, and lay out the bits, bytes and analog format planned for the year ahead.

## Key takeaways

- Tableau's development pace is accelerating, but the open question is whether the Salesforce acquisition will redirect the roadmap toward Salesforce integration over enterprise scaling features
- Hyper has so far behaved largely like a drop-in replacement for the old Tableau Data Extract rather than delivering the database capabilities originally promised
- AWS certification follows a rigid, structured tree; much of the training material is free, and most analytics practitioners could pass the cloud practitioner exam with a few hours of focused revision
- Spotify only captures a fraction of podcast listenership (around 5% globally) since Apple Podcasts dominates, so reported listener numbers tend to underrepresent the true audience
- Season three introduces an 'analog' format focused on interviewing the people who build products and innovate, shifting emphasis from tools onto people and community diversity

## Chapters

- 0:01 Welcome to season three
- 2:09 Reviewing the year personally and professionally
- 8:04 Tableau Conference recap
- 15:16 Reviewing last season's episodes
- 25:31 AWS certifications
- 27:26 Spotify listener statistics
- 33:36 Plans for season three

Watch the full video, read the transcript and use chapter deep-links on the page: https://just-tim.com/posts/s3-e1-welcome-back-to-a-new-season

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