# Status bar explain data enhancements in Tableau  2020.1

> 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:** 2020-02-25
- **Format:** Video · 3 min watch · transcript available
- **Topics:** Data visualisation, Analytics
- **Tools:** Tableau (ai)
- **Canonical:** https://just-tim.com/posts/status-bar-explain-data-enhancements-in-tableau-2020-1
- **Watch:** https://www.youtu.be/zS9w9rDMRJ0

I walk through the Explain Data enhancements in Tableau 2020.1, building on the feature first introduced in 2019. I show the new resizable window and the status bar that tells you how many fields were considered in the analysis, plus a description of what's happening behind the scenes.

## Key takeaways

- Explain Data in 2020.1 lets you resize the analysis window, turning it into more of an ad hoc exploration tool
- A new status bar at the bottom shows how many fields were considered in the analysis, e.g. 18 of 33
- Clicking the status bar icon exposes a description of what the underlying machine learning analysis did
- You retain prior capabilities: spinning off charts from a view and viewing the underlying field data
- With multiple measures on rows, columns or marks, each view's analysis appears in separate tabs

Watch the full video, read the transcript and use chapter deep-links on the page: https://just-tim.com/posts/status-bar-explain-data-enhancements-in-tableau-2020-1

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