# Tableau public improved search: New in Tableau 2021.1

> 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:** 2021-04-02
- **Format:** Video · 7 min watch · transcript available
- **Topics:** Data visualisation, Tool strategy
- **Tools:** Tableau (public, server)
- **Canonical:** https://just-tim.com/posts/tableau-public-improved-search-new-in-tableau-2021-1
- **Watch:** https://youtu.be/0YRXDWxRsHc

I walk through the improved search experience that arrived on Tableau Public with the 2021.1 release. I demonstrate how it now returns visual previews, splits results into vizzes and authors, and handles names, titles and hashtags much more intelligently than before.

## Key takeaways

- Tableau Public search now shows visualisation previews and splits results into vizzes on the left and authors on the right
- The search reads titles more meaningfully and ranks author matches by first name plus surname criteria
- Using consistent titles or hashtags (like Makeover Monday) makes your work far easier to find and group
- You can web edit a published viz to inspect how someone built it, a handy way to learn techniques
- Web edit in Tableau Public was slated for 2021.1 but has been delayed, while sorting search by recency or popularity remains on the wishlist

Watch the full video, read the transcript and use chapter deep-links on the page: https://just-tim.com/posts/tableau-public-improved-search-new-in-tableau-2021-1

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