# Tableau Conference Keynote Summary : 2024 San Diego

> 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:** 2024-05-01
- **Format:** Video · 32 min watch · transcript available
- **Topics:** Data visualisation, AI & ML, Industry trends
- **Tools:** Tableau (ai, cloud, data modelling, extensions, formatting, lod expressions, maps, prep, public, pulse)
- **Canonical:** https://just-tim.com/posts/tableau-conference-keynote-summary-2024-san-diego
- **Watch:** https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-krlpgXgX-A

I break down Tableau's 2024 San Diego conference keynote, walking through the four main sections in the order they were delivered. I cover the context beforehand, the opening on Tableau Public, the waves of analytics story, current innovations like Pulse and Einstein Copilot, the radical future vision, and the Devs on Stage feature rundown.

## Key takeaways

- Tableau Public now has a Desktop Edition that lets you save workbooks locally without publishing to the cloud, effectively creating a free version of Tableau for learners.
- Tableau framed its story around three waves of analytics — original BI, self-service (where Tableau was born), and the current AI wave — plus a bold fourth wave around future vision.
- Multi-fact analysis and the ability to join published data sources were solved together, since you cannot do multi-fact analysis without first fixing published data source problems.
- Einstein Copilot was demonstrated writing fixed LOD calculations and suggesting prep steps, lowering the barrier for new users who would not know what an LOD is.
- New chief product officer Saren Jones unveiled a deconstructed, composable version of Tableau aimed at reusing assets and solving business workflows, due to debut at Dreamforce in September.

## Chapters

- 0:12 Context before the keynote
- 1:49 Opening of the keynote
- 5:05 The waves of analytics
- 6:56 Innovation in wave three
- 10:26 Tableau Pulse and Einstein Copilot
- 15:55 The vision for Tableau's future
- 19:38 Devs on Stage rundown

Watch the full video, read the transcript and use chapter deep-links on the page: https://just-tim.com/posts/tableau-conference-keynote-summary-2024-san-diego

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