Tableau Public Search - Find Tableau inspiration for anything.

0:00Tableau Public is one of the best sources

0:02of inspiration for Tableau work anywhere on

0:04the internet.

0:05And in today's video, I'm going to show you

0:08how they've just made it better with a nice

0:10new search feature.

0:11As ever, let's get stuck in.

0:13So if you don't know what Tableau Public is

0:16, head to public.tableau.com and you'll land

0:19on this page.

0:19It's essentially the visualization gallery

0:22for Tableau content that's made using the

0:24free version of the product.

0:26Not many people know this when they're

0:27learning Tableau when they start out, but

0:29there's a free version of Tableau and it's

0:31called Tableau Public.

0:32It hasn't got any limitations other than

0:34you can't connect to databases using the

0:37software, but you can connect to an Excel,

0:39CSV or any other sort of flat file that you

0:42want.

0:42And that makes it a great place to learn

0:44all the things you need to learn.

0:45And you can go all the way, build dash

0:47boards and publish them here on Tableau

0:49Public.

0:50I've got a separate video on that.

0:51Now, one of the nice things about it is you

0:53can use it as a source of inspiration.

0:55So when you land on the landing page, you

0:57do get a nice little bit of inspiration

0:59called Visit the Day.

1:00Visit the Day is essentially the

1:01visualization that Tableau have chosen to

1:03feature that day.

1:04If you go over here to the top right and

1:06select see all, you'll see all of the

1:07visualizations.

1:09And these are typically always really,

1:11really lovely visualizations.

1:13They all have something unique, even if it

1:15looks basic or simple.

1:16There is something special about each of

1:18these.

1:18And so if you see this and you look at it

1:19and you go, I don't get what's special

1:21about it.

1:21Download it, open it, try it.

1:23You might just find that you're going to

1:24learn something new.

1:25Now, what makes Tableau really, really good

1:27now is that they've added a new search

1:29capability.

1:30So if I just go back to the Tableau Public

1:32homepage, you'll see I'm here.

1:33Over on the top right hand side, it's

1:35annoying that it's this small, this little

1:37search icon.

1:37It's almost so far removed is a search bar

1:39and you get this nice little search bar.

1:42So let's say you're looking for inspiration

1:43.

1:43Let's say you want to make something

1:45beautiful about sports.

1:47You can just start, you know, say put

1:49something like sports infographic,

1:51infographic.

1:53And then when you hit enter, you'll get

1:55some visualizations.

1:56And the nice thing about this is you get a

1:59nice, beautiful image and you can kind of

2:01be pulled in by what you see.

2:03And typically you might have a sort of

2:04aesthetic or a design that you're going for

2:06.

2:06And what this allows you to do is just very

2:08quickly get a sample of what's going on.

2:10But here's what's great about the new

2:12capability.

2:13Over on the top right hand side, you can

2:15now sort by relevance, view count and

2:17recently published.

2:19So if you want to go and see which is the

2:21most viewed item that meet that criteria,

2:23then you'll get this.

2:24Now, what is interesting about this and I

2:27saw this earlier on, I was testing this is,

2:30yeah, I've searched for sports infographic.

2:32And unfortunately, the algorithm is taking

2:35the term ports.

2:37And because this visualization here is

2:40talking about ports, it's actually come up

2:42because it's the most viewed item.

2:44So if Tableau is watching this, a few more

2:46tweaks to be done to this algorithm to make

2:48it just a little bit more relevant.

2:50I think something like sports is such a

2:52clear term that it should be weighted

2:54higher than ports when I search for it, in

2:56my opinion.

2:56But nonetheless, you can see that you can

2:58kind of start to see the visualizations.

3:00And what you'll find with the view count

3:02one is that unfortunately, it's going to be

3:04the ones that have been on Tableau Public

3:06the longest.

3:06And so if they've been on for three or four

3:08years, maybe some of them got like a really

3:10big sort of exposure through some sort of

3:12event.

3:13You do get sort of public health visual

3:15izations if you search for health care

3:17related items, absolutely sort of topping

3:19out because governments do use Tableau to

3:21display national statistics.

3:23I've seen this in Scotland and in the NHS

3:25here in the UK.

3:26So the view count search item is a little

3:28bit sort of strange.

3:30I think there needs to be a little bit of a

3:32tweak and a little bit of manual sort of

3:34contextual, you know, tweaking to make sure

3:36that certain visits don't sort of gain the

3:39system a little bit much.

3:40But anyway, we can also go and see which

3:42ones were recently published.

3:44So if we go ahead and look at this, you can

3:46see that people are building visualizations

3:48.

3:48So these are the newest ones that meet our

3:51criteria.

3:51The other thing you can do is you can now

3:53search.

3:54If I just go ahead and search for myself

3:56and just search Tim and Gwyneth, you'll see

3:58that it goes and finds visualizations by me

4:01.

4:01And you can see that lots of people called

4:03Tim.

4:04So all the Tims in the world are building

4:05wonderful stuff.

4:06But if you go over to authors, you'll see

4:09that you find people.

4:10And so not only can you find me, it's also

4:12gone and found my brother who has the same

4:14surname.

4:15So it's pretty nice.

4:16But it's also gone and found other Tims

4:17that you can engage with.

4:18So all the Tims unite.

4:20Let's take over Tableau Public.

4:22So this is a really nice way of searching

4:24for people and searching for the kind of

4:26things that you want to see.

4:28The last thing I'll highlight is when you

4:30go to visualizations, if I just go to let's

4:32say I search for something around NFL, let

4:35's just search NFL.

4:36And you want to learn how to recreate some

4:39of these items.

4:40One of the things you want to do is to be

4:42able to download or open them in Tableau

4:43Public so you can edit them.

4:45So there's this nice new filter here on the

4:47top left.

4:48When you click on it, it only shows you

4:50visualizations that let you do that.

4:52So you're not going to go to visualization,

4:54click on it and then find that you can't

4:55download it to see how it works or find

4:57that you can't edit it to see how it works.

4:59I also love the copy here.

5:01Can be downloaded or copied.

5:03Maybe a little tweak on that copy might be

5:07a good idea.

5:08Can't be downloaded or used for inspiration

5:10might be a better way of doing it.

5:12But as they say, still like an artist.

5:14But anyway, here you go.

5:16You can go and find any visualization.

5:18So if I want to see how this one by Ken was

5:21done, let's have a look at this one by NFL

5:23by Ken about NFL coaches.

5:25You'll know that this is available because

5:27not only was it part of that tag, but you

5:29'll see that there's a download Tableau work

5:31book option there as well as being able to

5:33download things like the image, crosstalk,

5:35PDF and PowerPoint.

5:36Data is great out because we haven't

5:38selected anything.

5:38If you don't know that, sometimes you have

5:41to first select an item before the data

5:43option shows up.

5:44So a little tip there as well.

5:45But nonetheless, that is pretty much what

5:47is nice and new about the new search

5:49feature.

5:49So I think this is really nice.

5:51It's going to make it easier to search for

5:53specific things.

5:53The other thing is hashtag.

5:55So if we go search, let's say fitness.

5:58Think that's a hashtag that's been used in

6:01the past.

6:01People are able to add hashtags to their

6:04specific work.

6:06And so what you can actually do is if you

6:07're sort of coordinated, you could create an

6:09own hashtag that hasn't been used by anyone

6:11else.

6:12And you can make it a nice, easy way of

6:13finding items.

6:14And don't forget the URL for this search

6:16parameters and shareable and only come up

6:18with that type of content.

6:20So you can also structure the way you use

6:22Tableau Public now to have the search page

6:25work in a way that really suits your own

6:27style and content.

6:28So I just wanted to do a little bit of a

6:30refresher of what Tableau Public is, show

6:33off the new features and show off how it

6:35works.

6:35But I think these are fantastic changes.

6:37I think they're going to be absolutely

6:39fantastic for the future.

6:40And it's going to make it so much easier

6:41for people finding it for the first time to

6:43get stuck in like I do.

6:45Thank you for watching and I'll catch you

6:46in the next one.

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