# Tableau Pulse - Metrics Unleashed | Announced at Tableau Conference 2023

> 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:** 2023-05-15
- **Format:** Video · 7 min watch · transcript available
- **Topics:** Data visualisation, AI & ML, Industry trends
- **Tools:** Alteryx (auto insights); Tableau (ai, cloud, embedding, pulse, server)
- **Canonical:** https://just-tim.com/posts/tableau-pulse-metrics-unleashed-announced-at-tableau-conference-2023-b
- **Watch:** https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_I2y103IoUs

I walk through Tableau Pulse, announced at the Tableau Conference 2023 keynote, explaining how it brings together metrics and Tableau GPT into a dedicated landing page for portable, accessible metrics. I cover how authors build these metrics, how they can be embedded across dashboards, email and Slack, and the resource implications for Server admins.

## Key takeaways

- Tableau Pulse is a landing page that combines metrics and Tableau GPT, aimed at users who go straight to dashboards rather than starting in a data source
- Authors can build metrics through an accessible interface by describing the metric, context and time periods, which is far simpler than building in Tableau Desktop
- Pulse metrics are genuinely portable and can be embedded in dashboards, emails, Slack and Tableau service, retaining neat chart design that is hard to replicate manually
- Tableau GPT lets users ask open-ended, conversational questions, and the metadata of what people ask becomes a goldmine for prioritising data engineering and uncollected data sources
- The AI training behind Pulse has real compute implications, which may push it towards being a Tableau Cloud product rather than Server

## Chapters

- 0:18 How metrics work today
- 0:50 Introducing Tableau Pulse
- 1:27 Building a metric
- 2:15 Portable, embeddable metrics
- 3:04 Tableau GPT and open questions
- 4:05 Metadata as a goldmine
- 4:52 Comparison and resource concerns

Watch the full video, read the transcript and use chapter deep-links on the page: https://just-tim.com/posts/tableau-pulse-metrics-unleashed-announced-at-tableau-conference-2023-b

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