Tableau Visionary Tries Tableau Pulse for the first time.

0:00Hey it's Tim here, in today's video we

0:01finally have access to Tableau Pulse, so I

0:03'm going to check it out.

0:04I have not looked at anything before this

0:06video, this is genuinely my first time

0:09looking at Pulse.

0:10I think this is a unique opportunity to a)

0:12understand how I look at features when they

0:14come out as new features, but more

0:16importantly you'll kind of just see my

0:18honest first impressions

0:19of this. Normally I look at the feature

0:21ahead of time and then when I record the

0:23video I have a bit

0:24of a hot take on it. This one is just a raw

0:26experience so this will be a long video. I

0:29will

0:29cut snippets from this of course, I'll post

0:31them separately so if you want to wait for

0:33those do

0:33that. But yeah we're just going to go

0:34through right from the beginning, I have

0:36some documentation from

0:37Tableau that I'm going to follow but I have

0:39not prepared anything. I've not come to

0:41this with a

0:41data source that's cooked and ready. I

0:44haven't changed my Tableau environment at

0:46all, it was

0:47enabled earlier this week so I'm just going

0:49to my Tableau Tim Tableau Cloud instance

0:52and we're going

0:52to start from there. Let's get stuck in.

0:56Okay Tableau Pulse has been enabled on my

0:58site, in order

0:59to do this you have to go and sign up for

1:00the beta. If you don't know how to do that,

1:03if you just simply

1:04go and search, let's go over here on the

1:06bottom left and search Tableau Pulse. What

1:08you should get

1:09actually, that's not going to work because

1:11I need to go to google.com. I'm on a

1:13separate profile here

1:15so everything is essentially logged out so

1:17I don't have any sort of login to anything,

1:19it's just going

1:20to be completely vanilla. But if you search

1:22Tableau Pulse, actually quite interesting

1:24what comes up,

1:24there's a bunch of sponsored links from B

1:27istri and Tableau themselves but Tableau

1:29Pulse's page is

1:30their third one here. So let's go ahead and

1:32accept all cookies and this is the page you

1:35have. If you

1:35hit get started and you go down here, you

1:37sign in with your Tableau setup, you can

1:39essentially sign

1:40up for the beta. There's a little form you

1:42got to fill in and there was some hoop

1:44jumping to do.

1:45The reason I got access to this just now is

1:47because I had to jump through some hoops

1:48because I fell

1:49through some sort of cracks that legal

1:51people hadn't covered. Once I've worked

1:53with Salesforce

1:53to sort that out, I've now got access and I

1:55think all that's happening here is they're

1:57just trying

1:57to make sure that you don't use the feature

1:59for something that's production ready and

2:00then go and

2:01blame Tableau for that specific issue. They

2:03kind of want to be able to say "hey we told

2:06you not to

2:06do this". It's available to test. Now the

2:08other thing to really emphasize and I think

2:10it's gone

2:11unnoticed is that there's a big difference

2:13between a beta and a pre-release. What's

2:16the difference?

2:16A pre-release in Tableau's terms in the

2:19past has been a feature that is more or

2:21less ready to go

2:22out of the gate, has been tested internally

2:24but essentially they're trying to get more

2:26telemetry

2:26from everyday users to test in certain

2:28scenarios where they think there might be

2:30issues or they

2:31just want to make sure that what they've

2:33implemented works in a more sustainable way

2:35. So often in the

2:35pre-release, you've maybe seen me cover

2:38these in videos before, you'll see them

2:40asking you to test

2:41specific things to kind of go through

2:42certain steps so you can actually test the

2:44feature properly.

2:45However a beta is slightly different

2:48because a beta to me is essentially

2:51something that Tableau

2:52is still building and I actually think

2:53there's an issue with the way that it's

2:55been marketed.

2:56Tableau have marketed Tableau Pulse like it

2:58's a feature that's been released and in

3:00actual fact

3:01this feature Tableau Pulse itself broke the

3:04cadence of releases as well so it's kind of

3:07come

3:07out away from the quarterly, no longer

3:10quarterly, the tri-annual releases. That

3:12never sounds as good

3:13to say. It's come out in a slightly

3:15different cadence to have its own space so

3:17it can have its

3:18own marketing and if you go to the Tableau

3:20homepage, if I literally go to Tableau.com,

3:23if I go to that page you'll see Tableau

3:25Pulse is right there on the landing page.

3:27So if you

3:27approach this from a product marketing

3:29perspective you would be mistaken to think

3:32that this is already

3:32available and it's production ready yet

3:34when you go and try everything and you

3:36drill into it it's

3:37technically no don't do that we're just

3:38rolling this out it's in beta whatever it's

3:40a juxtapose

3:41right on one hand it's a beta on the other

3:44hand it's not a pre-release and on the

3:46third hand it's

3:47like not a launched product so take that

3:49for what you will I'm not going to

3:51speculate on why or what

3:53I'm not an insider so I don't know what's

3:54going on but I think it's an important

3:56distinction to make

3:57when looking at the product and therefore

3:59it's going to frame how I approach this I'm

4:01not going

4:01to approach this like it's something that's

4:03been released officially I'm going to

4:05approach it like

4:05something that I can feed back on and I can

4:07still influence where it goes that's sort

4:09of the point

4:09of a beta right that said I know it's

4:12pretty common in tech to leave the beta tag

4:14on things

4:15for a really long time so I don't know how

4:17long we're going to be in beta for so I'm

4:19just going

4:19to assume we're going to be in beta

4:20probably most of this year that's my guess

4:22there's only

4:22three releases this year so it's not going

4:25to come out in 24.1 I don't think that that

4:28wouldn't make

4:28sense given they're already plugging it

4:31like it is now so I think it maybe comes

4:33out out of beta at

4:34conference San Diego, Salesforce that's

4:36actually right here at the top that's in

4:39April that's when

4:39I think Tableau goes this is available for

4:42everyone here you go and by the way Carat

4:44and Stick it's

4:45only available on Tableau Cloud yeah we'll

4:47get to that so we've covered the difference

4:50between a

4:50beta and a pre-release we've covered a

4:52little bit about the sort of the launch cad

4:54ence of this

4:54let's just get stuck into this and let's

4:57just do this let's just try Tableau parts

4:59for the first

5:00time what I have up is some documentation I

5:02was sent this documentation as part of the

5:04community

5:05program essentially I was lazy so someone's

5:07gone and grabbed links and said hey look

5:09over here and

5:10look over there and they've put together

5:12three links that I think are pretty useful

5:14setting up

5:14your site for Tableau Pulse creating

5:16metrics for Tableau Pulse and exploring

5:18metrics with Tableau

5:19Pulse these are three meaningfully

5:21different things you will notice that these

5:23are all peppered

5:24inside of the general Tableau help

5:26documentation and I'm going to say it again

5:28Tableau Pulse as it

5:29stands today is only available on Tableau

5:32Cloud and if you ask Tableau whether they

5:34're going to

5:35make it available on Tableau server they

5:38all get a pretty 95% no and the the

5:42reasoning for this is

5:43that they're running AI on this and so they

5:45can do that in a reliable scalable way on

5:48the cloud

5:48but long story short if you've looked at

5:50Tableau servers in the past IT teams always

5:53try and run

5:53Tableau servers on the least resources

5:55possible and so I think from a product

5:57experience

5:58perspective they're just going to argue

6:00that look that AI really needs to run on a

6:02platform where

6:03you control especially where they're trying

6:05to do things like train it and enhance it

6:07doesn't mean

6:08there aren't ways to do that on the server

6:10that's just you could create some sort of

6:12link between a

6:13Tableau server and Tableau's sort of cloud

6:15instance to do the hard work that could be

6:17a way to go but

6:19for now no server support for this if you

6:21want to try this you're gonna have to be on

6:24Tableau

6:24Cloud and watch the space lots of companies

6:27are going to be moving to Tableau Cloud for

6:30this lots

6:30of companies are already on Tableau Cloud

6:34so again just expect that transition to be

6:37something to

6:38expect and some of them might not be as

6:40smooth as it looks let's go over to the

6:42home page I've logged

6:43in to my Tableau Tim instance I haven't

6:45logged into this in a long while I've

6:47messed around doing

6:48silly things with this I have no clue what

6:50state anything is in so what I normally do

6:53is go to the

6:54explore tab and this kind of this is

6:55actually where I spend most of my time I

6:56don't spend much

6:57time on the home page especially as a

6:59consultant because there's nothing ever

7:00useful for me there

7:01I'll go to the explore tab and I quickly

7:03find what I need and I get to it okay now

7:06you'll notice

7:06Tableau Pulse sits right here on the left

7:09hand side so when it was enabled this pulse

7:12section

7:12switched on now because I'm an admin on my

7:15site I think everything just got enabled as

7:18a matter of

7:19sort of stance but here's the interesting

7:21thing when we click on it let's go ahead

7:23and click on

7:23it for the first time waiting you go to a

7:26page that doesn't feel like it's part of

7:29Tableau Server

7:30and this is the first observation and I've

7:33seen this before in demos which is why I

7:35need I know

7:35to expect this but you can see I haven't

7:37set anything up if I look at the URL I

7:39always like

7:40to snoop on the URL it has a sort of

7:43interesting sub URL so it feels like there

7:46is a separate

7:47pulse instance that then relates to the

7:50site Tableau Tim rather than the usual sort

7:54of Tableau

7:54URL structure this is really pernickety

7:56stuff normally you just have the site then

7:59Tableau Tim

8:00we had pulse then site then Tableau Tim

8:03from a URL perspective what this means to

8:05me is that

8:06they're actually running pulse on a

8:08separate sort of bunch of machines and when

8:10you click on pulse

8:11you're just being pointed to that and that

8:13pulse machine has access to all your data

8:16sources and

8:16all the stuff that's going on it's you can

8:18't read that much more into URLs the URLs

8:20could mean

8:21nothing they could just be redirections

8:23they could just be prettified to make

8:25things work but I think

8:26it's meaningful because here when you do go

8:28to pulse it's not like you're in the Table

8:31au

8:31server or Tableau cloud experience sorry

8:33and so when I go here to search what am I

8:35searching am

8:36I searching all of Tableau or am I using om

8:38ni search from Tableau cloud so that's

8:40feedback

8:41number one like coming out of that familiar

8:43experience to this new one that sort of

8:45makes

8:46a lot of people have to train people on how

8:47to access this especially viewers and

8:49explorers you

8:50have to train them how to navigate all this

8:51that's a little bit of that okay so there's

8:53now two

8:54separate places to search if I just search

8:56this let's say sales let's just search

8:58sales it doesn't

8:59find anything that's on my Tableau cloud

9:02instance so I know for a fact that's not

9:04working on Tableau

9:06search is now bifurcated into two separate

9:08experiences it's not like a global Tableau

9:11cloud

9:11search okay so that's already um the first

9:14thing and again this is really being per

9:17nickety here but

9:18this you know I've been using Tableau for

9:19such a long time that these are just the

9:21first things that

9:22come to mind and also as a consultant as

9:24someone who has to train people on Tableau

9:27as someone who

9:28teaches my tagline on LinkedIn is teaching

9:30the world Tableau like these are the

9:31questions that

9:32live in comments that people ask that just

9:34aren't straightforward they're

9:36straightforward to you and

9:37me if you're a pro user a heavy user

9:38advanced user but they're not

9:39straightforward to people who've

9:41just joined the platform let's immerse

9:43ourselves a little bit let's stop talking

9:45and let's go full

9:46screen a bit we'll put the documentation

9:47away for a bit let's just see what we find

9:49you're about to

9:50use Tableau AI generative AI can produce

9:53inaccurate or harmful responses review

9:56output for accuracy and

9:56safety you assume responsibility for how

9:59the outcomes of Tableau AI are applied to

10:02your

10:02organization so I think that's a fair

10:05statement to come out with it's not a great

10:07endorsement

10:08we're in the space of analytics so inacc

10:11uracy and harmful responses in the space of

10:15analytics is a

10:16very sort of interesting thing and I think

10:18AI has generally lowers lowered people's

10:20tolerance for

10:21inaccuracy if that makes sense inaccuracy

10:23suddenly more plausible because the upside

10:26of it is just

10:27incredible if you get what you need out of

10:29it so I'm not sure where I sit on the fence

10:31with that

10:32I think I'm probably on the side of I'd

10:33rather these things were more accurate and

10:36they were

10:36dialed back to be more accurate and maybe

10:38didn't get as much value because that then

10:41encourages

10:41confidence and trust and it kind of builds

10:44momentum into the tools whereas if you if

10:46you get

10:46something that's inaccurate or harmful that

10:48's a bad first experience and therefore it

10:50leads to

10:50especially with data leads to lack of

10:52confidence in what you're actually seeing

10:53so let's hit got it

10:55let's go back to the very first page I

10:57landed on which was the following page

10:59immediately we've got

11:00the following page in the browse metrics I

11:02have neither those are the first two things

11:05I could do

11:06on the right hand side I have this option

11:08to set up a new metric definition and if I

11:11go view all

11:12metrics you'll see I have nothing again so

11:15out of the gate a little bit frustrating

11:18let me explain

11:19why if I go back to actually this is a

11:21really good question how do I go back to my

11:23tableau cloud

11:24instance can I go back to my tableau cloud

11:27instance I cannot go to back to my tableau

11:29cloud

11:30instance okay okay yeah to me that's just

11:33fundamental stuff right so let's let's go

11:35to

11:36online dot tableau that one that's the one

11:40we want so when you go to pulse let's just

11:44click that

11:45in my opinion it keeps you in the same

11:48browser tab in my opinion if it's not going

11:51to give me

11:51a way of going back to the page I was just

11:54on that is a pretty jarring experience if

11:58the only

11:58way I can go is back to get to that once I

12:01'm three or four clicks in then this is

12:03taking people out

12:04of the sort of cloud experience so that's a

12:07small again these are small details I'm

12:09just discovering

12:09things as I go but nonetheless that to me

12:13is pretty if I went to let's just do this

12:16let's go

12:17to the explore tab let's go to top level

12:20and let's say I want to look at let's look

12:23at

12:26what am I going to use here oh all the

12:28metrics have disappeared so I can't create

12:33oh that's it

12:34that is really annoying ah all my metrics

12:37have gone because of course they're no

12:40longer supported

12:41now that pulse is out uh our data and pulse

12:45is just oh man that's not even a big deal

12:48but come on

12:51really oh I'm just gonna check I can't

12:55create the metrics the reason I'll tell you

13:00why that really

13:00I'll tell you why this really pissed me off

13:03in a second hold on if I uh watch

13:07subscriptions and

13:08alerts I am really clutching at straws here

13:12aren't I yeah we're not gonna be able to do

13:15this stuff

13:16are we it used to be here yep the reason I

13:22'm annoyed about that is I lost something I

13:28lost

13:28something without even I hadn't logged in

13:32let's say a month to be honest I actually

13:34had logged

13:35in within a month because I checked it last

13:38week to see if I had access or not but this

13:40has thrown

13:41me because what I was hoping is that I

13:46could use the old metrics to convert them

13:50into something in

13:52Tableau Pulse because those metrics were

13:54already based on a chart they were tracking

13:56something

13:57so I was hoping I could just use one of

13:59those things to get what I needed out of

14:01this but no

14:02so I need to leave this there okay so we're

14:05going to leave this data sources here so

14:08let's do this let's go to our data sources

14:10let's see what we have let's go to list

14:12view

14:13and let's sort this by the number of work

14:16books number of views sales commission okay

14:20cool

14:20prepping the browser top salesperson so

14:22some of these are pretty good data sources

14:24I think

14:25if I go to top salesperson this is I think

14:29a pretty

14:32straightforward one so it comes from the

14:35flow we've only got a few I've only got a

14:38few items

14:39in this that's not so great I've got a

14:41virtual connection that connects to my snow

14:43flake instance

14:44that could be a good one to set up but I

14:49don't want that let's go back

14:53this is a bit of a I hate to say it I'm

14:57gonna have to use superstore I'm gonna have

15:01to use

15:01superstore and then what I'm probably gonna

15:03do is over the next week I'm gonna set up

15:05some really

15:05good sort of data sources maybe get into my

15:08youtube a youtube channel metrics from snow

15:10flake

15:11because I have them in there and I think

15:12that will make for a more interesting way

15:14of testing pulse

15:15in real time as things change so this is

15:19weird so I have to open I'm really stuck I

15:23don't know

15:27yeah okay let's go out to the instructions

15:32and say okay see what it says set up your

15:34site for

15:35tableau paths if this gives me guidance on

15:37what to do first create metrics time pass

15:39for information

15:39how views interactive metrics see explore

15:43metrics okay cool set up your site verify

15:46that you publish

15:46data source connect your site with slack

15:49turn on tablet ai turn on tablet ai let's

15:51go have a look

15:52at that and see what that is about tablet

15:56tablet uses tablet ai which is blah blah

16:00blah blah blah

16:00tablet ai is used to generate tablet post

16:02doesn't use the site's data to train tablet

16:05ai as tablet

16:06ai jesus how many times tabla ai that's a

16:09lot of tablet ai on one page okay turn on

16:13tabla if you

16:13want users to see personalized information

16:16from motion term on tabla okay takes you

16:18further down

16:18the page from the main tableau cloud go to

16:20settings under availability of tablet ai

16:23select

16:23enable tablet pulse insight summaries to

16:26use generative ai to summarize key select

16:28save so

16:29settings and so here we are we go to our

16:32site which is not in tableau pulse if i'd

16:35gone to

16:35tableau pass you'd think you'd go here to

16:38do this and you go to preferences and oh it

16:40'll be

16:40it's just completely different yeah oh god

16:43is there anything in here no can i find it

16:46no okay

16:47so we're in settings i think i have to

16:49scroll down here so this is my content i'm

16:53in settings

16:54am i in the right place though no i need to

16:56go to settings over here sorry i went to my

16:59personal

17:00settings on the top right hand side what i

17:02actually need to do is go to the site

17:03settings and in here

17:05can i search for tablet ai it's not there

17:09okay

17:12data driven alerts tagging uh flow

17:16parameters run now link tasks flow

17:20subscriptions personal spaces

17:22view acceleration

17:24am i missing something under select

17:29settings under availability of tabla ai

17:34from the main

17:35tableau cloud navigation menu select

17:39settings under availability of tablet ai

17:41okay what am i

17:42missing here where am i seeing where should

17:46it go come on availability of data stories

17:49okay on

17:50availability to explain data on

17:53availability of data guide on availability

17:58of external actions

18:00enabled can't find it is it not on here

18:06okay

18:08let's see if i can see this availability of

18:14tablet ai is not there okay let's just go

18:19back there's

18:20four mentions of availability of and those

18:24are the four they're all on i'm not having

18:28a dyslexic

18:28moment am i nope let's go to some of these

18:32other ones slack is on it's connected to my

18:36tn media

18:37slack that's fine connected apps mobile's

18:40not really got anything here um extensions

18:45nope

18:46integrations don't make sense nope

18:49extensions nope bridge nope wouldn't be

18:53here um you need to do some

18:55new videos on bridge authentication in

18:58general so yeah someone from tablo is

19:00watching this is

19:02the version i'm on 24.1 doesn't have the

19:05setting uh that's in the documentation and

19:08let me close

19:08this tab so i don't get confused yeah i

19:10just have to assume it's on i have to

19:12assume it's on i can't

19:14go to settings so it's not a good start but

19:16hey set up your site okay permission for

19:17metrics there

19:18are no permissions for you to use tablet to

19:20set in power tablet pass users access

19:22tablet from

19:22tablo cloud navigation menu but the metrics

19:24and tablet pass aren't part of the project

19:26content

19:26hierarchy in tablet cloud whoa oh my god

19:29okay all governed by project-based

19:32permissions that is it

19:34oh geez that's a big change the ability to

19:37create or see metrics is based on

19:39permission to connect

19:41to and access data in a data source the

19:44data users see when viewing a metric

19:46respects row level

19:48security applied to the data source okay

19:50let me decipher this so what this is saying

19:52is that

19:53tablo pulse or tablo pulses well i don't

19:57know what the approvals of a pulse metric

20:01let's say that

20:02isn't part of the project content hierarchy

20:05instead it observes the permissions on the

20:08data source i think this is what it's

20:10saying the ability to create or see metrics

20:12is based on

20:13permission to connect to and access data in

20:15a data source so that's what you have to go

20:17to

20:17to kind of get this to work okay the data

20:20users see when viewing a metric respects

20:23row level

20:23security applied to the data source metrics

20:26also respects row level security we should

20:30probably do

20:31a video on row level security that's fun

20:33permissions for creating metric definitions

20:35any user

20:36with a site role of creator so i'm an

20:37explorer or explorer can publish can create

20:41metric definitions

20:42in tablet pass to create a metric so you

20:44can't create a pulse metric definition as a

20:47viewer but

20:47anyone who's an explorer can publish admin

20:50explorer or creator can do so to create a

20:52metric definition from a published data

20:54source the user must have the connect

20:56permission capability

20:57for the data source okay so pulse is linked

21:00to the existing permissions hierarchy but

21:04it's not

21:04directly linked i get why i kind of wonder

21:08if tableau is trying to break away from the

21:11project

21:12hierarchy by putting pulse elsewhere

21:13because they don't want pulses to live

21:15inside of folders that

21:16people never see and therefore they never

21:18see the metric instead they've taken it out

21:20and they want

21:21the interface to push things to you and you

21:23just to have a feed a wall of metrics and

21:25they'll show

21:26you what's important i get that i get that

21:28sort of philosophical push but if it's not

21:30part of the

21:31permissions setup then how do you see how

21:34do you troubleshoot these past metrics i

21:36think we have to

21:37create one to understand let me put a note

21:39i have this wonderful like blank canvas on

21:42the left-hand

21:42side right on the right-hand side where i'm

21:44taking notes i'm typing them all in so the

21:46first thing i

21:47want to do is check permissions what's that

21:51check permissions visibility once metric

21:55created so does

21:56the metric give me a way of seeing who i

21:59can and can't share it with and can i see

22:01the perceived

22:02permissions as you can do inside of the

22:04project hierarchy on a pulse metric that's

22:07essentially

22:08what i'm asking permissions for viewing

22:10metrics okay the ability to see data for a

22:13metric depends

22:14on the access to the data okay tableau ai

22:18and pass tableau on ai turn on top of ai

22:22this didn't work

22:24troubleshoot metrics so that's the end so

22:25let's look at the viewing metrics

22:26permission this is the

22:28last thing i'll read in detail and then we

22:30'll move on the ability to see the data for

22:32a metric depends

22:32on access to data in the data source the

22:35metric is connected to tabla pass doesn't

22:37prompt users

22:38to sign in to see the data instead one of

22:40the following must be true for the users to

22:42see the

22:42metric the credential with the data source

22:45are embedded fine the user's credentials

22:47are past the

22:47data source for single sign-on the user's

22:49credentials are saved for the data source

22:51the data source doesn't require the user to

22:53authenticate to access data

22:58that is that sounds different please table

23:00au doesn't prompt users to sign in to see

23:02the data

23:03what what if okay i don't know why i don't

23:08understand the significance of this

23:11i think i guess i'm just confused about

23:13this tableau pass doesn't prompt users to

23:16sign in

23:17to see data if you go into tableau pulse

23:19from the navigation pane you'd already be

23:22logged in

23:25it does just use the credential from the

23:27data source whether it's published or not

23:29so i guess

23:29this is it's talking about the database

23:31credentials like the data source

23:33credentials

23:34rather than like the credentials of the

23:36tableau instance so maybe that would be

23:38something specific

23:39to add to this so let's just read this

23:41again and add that in to see if it works

23:43the ability to see

23:44the data for metric depends on access to

23:47the data in the data source the metric is

23:49connected to

23:51access to the data in the data source table

23:53au pass doesn't prompt users to sign in to

23:55see the data

23:56instead one of the following must be true

23:58for the user to see the metric data the

24:00credentials for

24:01the data source are embedded so if you're

24:03connected to sql server the credentials for

24:06that are

24:06embedded in the data source therefore the

24:08user doesn't need to be prompted to see

24:09that the user's

24:11credentials are passed to the data source

24:13with single sign-on i'm logged into tableau

24:15server

24:15signed on with my windows id when i go to

24:18see the metric it passes my windows

24:20credentials to that

24:22data source that is source yes this is tim

24:24it goes through the user's credentials are

24:26saved for the

24:27data source for more information saved for

24:30the data source saved credentials for data

24:34source

24:34connections okay so these ah there is

24:38somewhere here if i go to my account

24:42settings here we go

24:46i think when you log into certain data

24:47sources so these are the saved credentials

24:50it's talking about

24:51if you log into any one of these a saved

24:53credential would appear in here so you can

24:55see here

24:55i'm logged into my tn media salesforce

24:58instance and you can see that's a saved

25:01credential so this

25:02is what it's talking about there i'm glad i

25:04figured that out the data source doesn't

25:06require

25:06the user to authenticate to access the data

25:09so a google sheet or um something like that

25:12's public

25:12and therefore doesn't have a credential

25:15therefore you just go in and connect to it

25:17okay so in terms

25:18of setting up your site for tableau pulse

25:20that's pretty much everything we found out

25:22about the data

25:22source we found out about permissions that

25:24's good okay create metrics with tableau

25:26pulse this is the

25:27next step so tableau pass provides insights

25:30blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah

25:32blah okay

25:33show me the money metrics and definitions

25:35oh hello there's a little bit of hierarchy

25:37here so behind

25:37every metric in tableau pulse is a metric

25:40definition viewers interact with metrics

25:43metric

25:43definitions specify the core metadata for

25:45these metrics that makes sense so you've

25:48got measure

25:48time dimension blah blah blah that creates

25:51this metric and that metric okay cool makes

25:53sense

25:54that's a really good definition in fact i

25:56always think of metrics in this way when i

25:57'm building

25:58dashboards it's just that it's nice to see

26:00it here and it's actually the way they

26:01thought about it in

26:02the products so pretty cool so you have

26:04definition field metric name measuring

26:07aggregation okay so it

26:08looks like these are the context of a

26:11metric if that makes sense and they set the

26:13tone of what

26:14pulse is going to show you so these are the

26:17things these are in this case are the

26:19variables that

26:20would go into that or example values and

26:22then that basically gives you what you need

26:24now that's the

26:25metric definition metric let's see what the

26:28metric is the interactive objects that sit

26:31in front of a

26:31definition created when users adjust

26:34filters or time context options which means

26:37that there are

26:38there can be many metrics related to a

26:40definition so let me get this straight so a

26:42metric definition

26:44is just saying hey i want this number over

26:46this period of time from this data source

26:49done okay a metric is specifically you then

26:54dialing those in right so a metric

26:57definition

26:58is broad a metric is precise if that makes

27:01sense is users follow and explore metrics

27:03to get insights

27:04the following tables provide an example of

27:07the options configured for related metrics

27:09these options are applied on top of the

27:11core value that is specified by the metric

27:13definition okay

27:14so related metric for superstore sales

27:17technology you have the quarter compared to

27:19previous year

27:20specifically technology another metric is

27:23year to date compared to previous year for

27:25office supplies

27:26same definition different metrics okay

27:29clear what makes tableau pulse different

27:32that's a bold

27:32paragraph let's just see if there's

27:34anything juicy up here first before we get

27:35stuck into that

27:36when you create the definition tablet

27:38automatic creates an issue blah blah blah

27:40people in your

27:40organization follow metrics i'm skim

27:42reading here that's why i'm going

27:44let you manage the data okay see that you

27:48remember yourselves okay these are just

27:51further examples

27:52digging in okay what makes tableau pulse

27:54different presents a simplified flow to

27:56create metro

27:57definitions with only a few selections you

27:59can make a definition that would normally

28:01require

28:02complex calculations okay cool i get that

28:04data source requirement for metric

28:07definition it's a

28:08single published data source this can be

28:10extract or live connection you can't

28:12connect to a data

28:13source that is embedded in a workbook and

28:15you can't connect to multiple data sources

28:18or use

28:18data blending unless you combine the data

28:21before publishing the data source okay so

28:24you can't use

28:24blended outputs you have the connect

28:26permission capability data source of course

28:28data source

28:29contains a measure basically contains

28:31enough stuff for it to work with for a

28:33metric so the key thing

28:34here has to be a single published data

28:37source and it can be an extract or a live

28:39connection

28:41you oh like why is that there i was

28:45wondering like why is that there yeah it's

28:49just yeah you

28:51can't connect it's in between two things

28:53the sandwich between two things which means

28:55you might

28:56miss it you can't connect to a data source

28:57that is so it can't be a virtual connection

29:00maybe what

29:00this is saying is this just saying it can't

29:02be a virtual connection this can be an

29:04extract or a

29:05live connection i wish it just says it can

29:07't be a virtual connection i'm i think that

29:09's what it's

29:09saying who knows creating a metric

29:12definition oh we've got a two-minute video

29:15um i could watch this

29:16or i could just give it a go so let's give

29:19it a go let's stop being let's stop messing

29:21around let's

29:22go to new metric definition okay so here we

29:24go when i do that i can obviously search

29:27this is

29:27pretty nice if i was to search superstore

29:30it's not oh yeah it is updating as i type

29:34so that's quite

29:35good and it's just an excel file let's just

29:37go ahead and create this i think my face is

29:39over the

29:39button so let's go ahead connect to that

29:42and then here we go we have the interface

29:44it loads up the

29:45interface which is kind of good so you

29:46remember we've got the definition and then

29:48we've got the

29:48metrics so what i'm going to do is i'm

29:51going to say i'm going to track cells okay

29:54sales metric

29:56measure is going to be cells i can go ahead

30:00and type that so pretty cool

30:04the aggregation is going to be sum okay so

30:07i should really go up here and say total

30:10that would be nice if when you chose an

30:12aggregation it changed the title as a

30:15suggestion

30:16so that that would be quite good because

30:18you say some you kind of want to make sure

30:19there's a little

30:20confusion and potentially as you choose

30:23things here this description gets auto-pop

30:25ulated with

30:26tags right that would be quite nice anyway

30:29show sparkline values to date as non-cum

30:31ulative or

30:32running total that's quite good if you want

30:34it to show you year year versus budget or

30:36something like

30:37that that's quite a nice way to have

30:38running total just show you how close you

30:40are to achieving that

30:42non-cumulative time dimension is going to

30:44be the order date you could do it by

30:46shipping date that

30:46would be weird and so that's a basic

30:49definition so can't compare data when the

30:52value is null okay so

30:54month to date is breaking this because of

30:56course there is no cells in this year and i

30:59'm using

31:00superstore cells and so the month to date

31:02is going to be pretty grim oops sorry

31:04clicked on my face

31:05so yeah unless you're using live data

31:09sources this is going to be not so great

31:13because you'll look at

31:13it and you'll think it's not working it is

31:15actually working i just don't have anything

31:16in this year

31:17inside of superstore we'll figure that out

31:20some other way if i say create advanced

31:23metric what i

31:24should have done is i've changed the order

31:27date like order date plus whatever so can i

31:29do that

31:29can i create oh i can oh okay order date

31:32let's do this let's see if we can solve

31:35this and say

31:37date add i'm gonna say if i just highlight

31:41this i'm gonna double click that and it's

31:45gonna

31:45that's a day okay grammily move out the way

31:50thank you no come on move out the way there

31:54you go over

31:54there date add year we're gonna say three

32:00years and then we just say order date boom

32:05okay i'm

32:07gonna say order date plus three hit apply

32:12okay so this is cool i have the calculation

32:17window that i

32:19can get in but it's kind of crazy i'm

32:20already in here to kind of solve the

32:22problem yeah where does

32:23this calculation live inside of the

32:25published data source or yeah it'd be

32:27interesting to kind of go to

32:28the published data source and see if it's

32:30created that in there the measured time

32:31dimension filters

32:32you add will replace those fields in the

32:33metric definition no other fields from this

32:35editor will

32:36be saved the measure time dimension and

32:39filters you add will replace those fields

32:43in the metric

32:44definition i have no idea what that means

32:46but yeah let's just keep going we'll

32:48probably figure out

32:50apply your before you apply your selections

32:52make sure that you've added one measure one

32:55time

32:56dimension any number of filters oh so i

32:59need to add my time dimension there you can

33:04see it's not

33:05actually caught up with us so let's say let

33:09's add ah this is very let's see this there

33:13you go

33:15that let's say six just so we have we're in

33:172024 aren't we yeah okay just one time

33:22dimension will

33:23do apply apply can't apply selections from

33:26the advanced analytics selector why oh do i

33:33need to

33:33do this do okay i need to do that fine so

33:36interestingly here you have to build

33:41you have to build this into this sort of

33:43pane so let's go ahead apply this is

33:45probably why

33:45it would have helped to read the

33:47instructions there you go that's what's

33:49worked and

33:50we can see that what we have done is we've

33:54gone and defined our order date in that

33:58place we had

33:59a filter a measure and the time dimensions

34:01essentially the three things it needs and

34:03we've gone and done it in the pane there

34:05and then it's just saved those and brought

34:07it out

34:07i think it saved them as part of the data

34:09source impulse but not actually in the

34:11actual thing and

34:12so we've set an advanced metric definition

34:14now the cool thing about that is you could

34:17go and write

34:17the calculation for that and drop it in and

34:19you'd be pretty much good to go so that's

34:21quite nice and

34:22now we have some data in here oops now we

34:24have some data in here that we can actually

34:26play with

34:26so that's quite good okay adjustable metric

34:30for filters so we can say country we can

34:33say oh so

34:34here you're choosing what you can filter by

34:36so you can say category we can say sub

34:39category that's a

34:41simple example so here you're adding your

34:44filters we'll add a shipping one how many

34:47of these can we

34:48add let's add manufacturer and let's go

34:51customer name okay so let's give our our

34:55users a ton of

34:56metric definitions okay number format we

35:00can say this is a currency value okay and

35:03as we do that

35:04it kind of processes everything now i don't

35:06know what currency is going to use it's

35:07going to use

35:07dollars i don't know how to change that i

35:10don't know what that's based on maybe it's

35:13in the data

35:13source it is the american data source saved

35:15that's fine so let's save the definition

35:17and here we go

35:20let's put our face over here so we have a

35:23metric so this is our first metric okay so

35:27if i go back

35:28oh no it wants to go to the data source

35:32page but if i go to browse metrics you can

35:36see we have

35:36one there total cells and can i if i go to

35:40the metric i can actually follow it so

35:43total cells

35:44i have this related metrics one month today

35:47right so the metric definition is what's

35:49sitting at the

35:50top here remember and then the specific

35:52metric is what's sitting here so if i

35:54follow that that is

35:55great now that definition is always going

36:00to be those three things great yeah and

36:05everything else

36:06is just going to be like contextual so that

36:09's pretty cool so it's an interesting one

36:12because

36:14for example if i hit adjust and i say year

36:17to date okay it's going to go off and think

36:20about it

36:21and i had to hit apply there

36:25and these sort of little cubes at the top

36:28are giving us that sort of context this one

36:32gives

36:32us a slightly different chart i think

36:34because i think we're in january we've not

36:35really taken

36:36off yet but if i look at this and we look

36:38at by ship mode or let's look at this by a

36:41subcategory

36:41let's say that's quite good we can kind of

36:43see what's popping and what's not and as we

36:46scroll

36:46down you're starting to get insight so this

36:48is wow this is this has got complex real

36:50quick so

36:51this reminds me of altrix auto insights a

36:55lot some of this the way some of the orche

36:58stration

36:58and the order in which it's happening maybe

37:00there's some inspiration there but

37:01okay and so you've got tableau ai giving

37:05you these questions here that's what these

37:08are and then

37:09you've got insights top insight about this

37:11change which manufacturer increased the

37:13most gbc okay

37:15it's a shame that none of this is

37:17interactive i'd love to click on gbc and

37:18have the story get a bit

37:20more interesting but if i follow this one

37:23you'll see it's year to day compared to

37:26previous period

37:27right now if i adjust this and i go just

37:31show it to me for tech i can exclude tech

37:35that's great i

37:36have that have that sort of tableau include

37:39exclude terminology and hit apply i keep

37:42wanting to hit an

37:42apply page somewhere else yeah and then if

37:45i go back to the breakdown this is just

37:46tech now hit

37:47follow okay now if i go to my pulse you can

37:52see i created one definition but i now have

37:56three metrics

37:57from that one definition and they're

37:59tracking slightly different things one is

38:01year-to-day

38:02technology another is year-to-date for

38:04everything and another one is month to date

38:07for everything so

38:08this is actually quite powerful and

38:10immediately we're starting to get tableaus

38:13giving us some

38:13hints at the top and you can start to give

38:16it some sort of context now what is

38:18interesting is it's

38:19done this incredibly quickly i don't know

38:20if it's trained on superstore already so it

38:22's just like

38:22i've seen this data source before come on

38:24let me just help you out here and just give

38:26this to you

38:27straight away i'd love to know what this is

38:28like on people's own data sources and how

38:30fast that is

38:31because it was last updated five seconds

38:33ago i don't know if that's just to keep up

38:35and actually

38:36from a product perspective i imagine as

38:38soon as you set up pulse it's going to

38:40prioritize new

38:41pulse instances like right to the top of

38:43that analysis because as soon as you're

38:45using the

38:45product you want to have that first good

38:48impression right and then subsequent

38:50updates

38:51probably going to be more difficult to

38:52trigger probably based on data refreshes

38:54and stuff like

38:55that but really nice that you got this out

38:58of the gates super cool so first

39:00impressions i like this

39:02i like this a lot and let me tell you why

39:05if i go to this page here and i go to let's

39:08say one of

39:09these okay so often in everyday analytics

39:12users want to change what's in front of

39:16them and they

39:17have to go to the dashboard developer to do

39:19one of two things add a ton of filters or

39:22change the

39:22way the report works now these are basic

39:25reports but actually for 80 of use cases

39:28this is great

39:28this is fine now the second thing is that

39:31some of what's in here is actually just

39:33aesthetically

39:34easier and nicer to do that that sort of

39:36terminology we got with included next lead

39:39the fact that this is all running on the

39:40web this is definitely not rendering a

39:42tableau vis in the background this would be

39:45far slower if you look at this the speed of

39:47this right

39:48and the way it cuts through like this is

39:50definitely not running off visql right so

39:52let's just get that

39:53clear now and yeah it's easy for the users

39:55to come in and adjust this as long as these

39:57broad brush

39:59filters have been added to the metric

40:01definition someone can come in and just

40:03change what they want

40:04to see so someone maybe who cares about

40:07same day orders and wants to only track a

40:09specific

40:10manufacturer for a specific customer in a

40:13specific country this is great so if i yeah

40:16if i just go

40:16back and i say technology specifically

40:19interesting that when i've selected

40:22technology this list oh

40:25that's interesting this list is not self-

40:28filtered itself so i can let's see if it

40:30will let me do

40:31this let's say i select the binders okay

40:35and i hit enter yeah that shouldn't happen

40:39i mean that

40:40that is just that is that's that's not good

40:43um so i can't take a screenshot because i'm

40:46actually

40:46recording the video i tried to take a

40:49screenshot there so let me put that down um

40:51shouldn't be able

40:53to create uh metrics that can't happen so

40:56the reason this is a metric that can't

41:00happen is

41:00because if i adjust this the category is

41:03tech but the subcategory is not actually

41:06from tech so there

41:07doesn't seem to be any sort of smart

41:09linking between all of this so it's

41:11possible for me

41:12as a user a lay user to create a metric

41:15that can't work and that's hard to know and

41:19understand

41:20because you can't see the data source in

41:22the background and you're just generating

41:24noise

41:24and this is for the majority of users so

41:26you could very quickly get a ton of

41:28requests and support

41:29requests for things that are just 10 of the

41:31time just can't be done because that's not

41:34how the data

41:34source is set up so that is that's an

41:36interesting what i've seen that's a small

41:38one that tableau can

41:39fix it very easy this is inside of tableau

41:41itself tableau desktop and even tableau

41:43prep this is

41:44native so for that not to be here kind of

41:47interesting but yeah all of these

41:49selections

41:50should update for example here it just has

41:52united states instead of saying all it

41:54should just say

41:55united states because there's no other

41:57country it could possibly be if that makes

41:59sense here when i

42:00select technology subcategory should only

42:03show me the sub the sub categories that

42:05matter okay ship

42:06mode as you drill down into whatever your

42:08selection is these should just lock

42:10themselves into this the

42:12lowest state if that's the only state

42:14available but let's go ahead and select

42:17values to include

42:19also that subcategory so let's say select

42:21all i'll just select all just to keep

42:23things simple okay

42:24and we'll go ahead and follow and that's

42:27nice now when you click on followers you

42:30can add

42:31multiple people so you can search for

42:33people in groups i'm assuming let's search

42:36for let's search

42:38for there's only a few of us on this

42:41surface there's no point setting up groups

42:43so i won't

42:44do that at all but nonetheless yeah it's

42:47fine we'll just leave this as is i think

42:49that's pretty

42:49pretty straightforward interesting

42:51interesting first impressions interesting

42:54first impressions

42:55i've not yet i've not yet experienced this

42:56coming to my phone i think i'll do that in

42:58another video

42:59i'll go through and we'll kind of dig

43:01through that in a little bit more detail

43:03but as a first pass

43:05this is interesting now

43:07this also feels to me like a genuine

43:10experience right i created a null i created

43:14two that don't

43:15look great and i created one that should

43:17work but it's got gaps in it and the kind

43:19of thing you'll

43:20see people start to fight with is why has

43:22that got gaps what's going on that oh

43:24because you

43:24didn't have any cells in jam oh you didn't

43:27have cells in those periods okay cool so

43:29what people

43:30expect is you for you to draw a line but

43:31that then you get into this the cells weren

43:34't flat

43:34in that period there were just zero cells

43:36so really the line should go down to zero

43:38and then

43:38come back up okay so you could do it this

43:40way and you can kind of play around with

43:42that but that's

43:43fine now what i haven't done is asked

43:45subsequent questions so let's try that

43:47which manufacturer

43:48had very high total cells so you asked

43:50which manufacturer had test sales so this

43:52is what it

43:52gave you okay which subcategory decreased

43:55in cost oh so what it's doing is as you

43:57click on these

43:58it's let's just go crazy and just like when

44:03will it stop what it's doing is it's adding

44:07them to

44:07the list man this is a we run out we run

44:10out of all the questions so what is

44:13interesting is every

44:14time i was clicking it was adding to the

44:16list and i just thought hell let's just

44:17click this until it

44:18runs out of stuff to tell us so let's see

44:20the quality of everything it gave us so

44:22bottom

44:22contributors by manufacturer are poly so

44:25basically go get rid of these people which

44:28customer name had

44:29low total cells okay so there's the average

44:32of 32 others is a lot higher these are a

44:35lot smaller so

44:36that's kind of interesting because if you

44:37're looking at customers just being able to

44:39just

44:39bring that out it's just yeah which ship

44:42mode increased the most second class

44:46average for three

44:47others went down second class went up these

44:50are great insights compared to the last

44:52month total

44:53cells decreased by four percent andy rather

44:55blah blah blah increase in total cells okay

44:57so

44:58basically the average for 139 others was

45:00down but these customers their spending was

45:03up okay

45:03interesting you asked which subcategory had

45:06low total cells average of 11 others is

45:09this and these

45:10ones were well below that nice and compared

45:13to the last month total cells the amount of

45:16questions

45:16it's answered faster than i could build a

45:18dashboard again just speaks to the fact

45:20that

45:20man analytics is changing if this stuff can

45:23be correct and accurate then this is great

45:28now what

45:28i haven't done is gone and opened up a

45:30dashboard and then gone and checked all of

45:32this because

45:32again here's the thing with ai the pace at

45:34which it gives you answers is impossible to

45:38keep up with

45:38from a single developer perspective maybe

45:40that's one thing i should do i should do a

45:42video where i

45:43just go and fact check tablet miles and see

45:46how right or wrong some of these responses

45:49were on

45:49face value these are good insights that it

45:51's pulling out the kind of insights that a

45:53lot of

45:53people struggle to ask or even just think

45:55to ask it's great that it's just pulling

45:57them out it's

45:58giving people suggestions of where to go

46:00and where to look the great thing is these

46:02are disposable you

46:03can look at them and say no that's not

46:04important oh this is important wow this guy

46:06's down like by

46:07nine grand whoa what's going on there let's

46:09go give him a call there are lots of little

46:11hints

46:12and tips in this i really love it i really

46:14love it i think it's great and it's very

46:16easy to use

46:17um so if i then go up here and i search

46:20sales again now you can see that it gets a

46:24little

46:24bit more lively because i'm now searching

46:27based on the five or six metrics that i've

46:28created so

46:30i go to this category you'll see this is

46:33the one that's uh bland but hey if i go

46:36back it takes me

46:38back to this okay so here we are so yeah

46:41that's not bad that's not bad as a first

46:44experience just

46:45setting this up getting used to it

46:47understanding how it works very good let's

46:50go ahead and create

46:51one more metric definition let's just let's

46:54see yeah let's use this one okay let's hit

46:57connect

46:57okay so let's say this one is going to be

47:01let's what value should we go for here let

47:04's go for

47:05profit so profit is the definition profit

47:10and then we'll do some we'll do running

47:14total

47:15it's interesting yeah let's do running

47:19total fine time dimension order date

47:22running test will give

47:23us a nice line chart okay time dimension oh

47:25damn it order day i need to go do that

47:28thing again

47:31so annoying this is my data source this is

47:34not table but still annoying create

47:37calculated field

47:38uh this right i just need faster typing at

47:41date add year comma six comma order date

47:51and

47:54get rid of that date apply okay bring that

47:59in time dimension measure profit oh can i

48:04bring in

48:05two metrics no can only bring one at a time

48:07fine that's our metric nice this is almost

48:10the same

48:11sort of back end is creating a metric

48:13previously so here we go we'll let it go

48:17okay now i said

48:18running totals oh okay so in here do i yes

48:24that's a subtle thing if you want to make

48:28it running total

48:29here you have to know where the running

48:31total option is so you'll go in here create

48:33running

48:33total and now can't apply section from

48:36advanced analytics at a bad request for a

48:39bad request

48:40what was that about one measure one time

48:46dimension ah okay it doesn't like running

48:50totals

48:50that makes no sense

48:53here we go

48:55let's do it by month

49:00and then let's try again with profit and

49:06then all i wanted to do was a running total

49:08what's

49:09wrong with that okay hit apply apply again

49:14huh doesn't like that okay maybe that's a

49:21bug

49:21yeah it doesn't like running totals by the

49:24looks of things running totals not working

49:28okay so the calculation name is kind of

49:31weirded out i called it day and it's come

49:34back with the

49:34calculation name that's not cool but hey

49:37anyway that's fine we won't select anything

49:40we'll give

49:41it currency again and then we'll call it a

49:44day and save the definition select a field

49:47oh select

49:48filters sorry i forgot to add these so let

49:50's be a little bit more selective this time

49:52let's look

49:52at region and let's look at customer

49:54category region and customer yeah those are

49:57like the three

49:58most common sort of reason definition

50:00things you'd get so here we go okay nice so

50:02let's just go follow

50:03this metric out the gate now if i go to

50:06tableau pulse we have several metrics if i

50:10go browse the

50:11metrics we have two definitions oops with

50:13five six related metrics all together okay

50:17so this is the

50:18the the setup and yeah that's pretty much

50:21it the feature in a nutshell there's a lot

50:24more to this

50:25obviously and i've taken my time spent the

50:28full hour going into it and i think i'm

50:31starting to get

50:32who this is for primarily it's for viewers

50:35and explorers who are mostly consuming data

50:38it's for those people that want to take a

50:41little bit more control of these particular

50:44things now

50:45by extension i think viewers should be able

50:48to create these because it is actually easy

50:52enough

50:52that i think viewers would be able to

50:54understand this but it's going to be

50:55explorers who can

50:56publish explorers who are site creators and

50:59then creators who build these okay so you

51:04're going to

51:04need those licenses in order for this to

51:06work and i think it's carrot and stick to

51:08kind of not let

51:08you buy viewers and therefore not pay for

51:11pulse and try and shift the body of people

51:15up from viewer

51:15into explorer essentially if you can

51:18increase the explorer body count you can

51:20increase revenue

51:21because you've just essentially upsold a

51:23few viewers so maybe that's the mechanic in

51:25here

51:25i'm speculating i don't know if that's the

51:27case if you know that's the case let me

51:28know in the

51:29comments below but yes i think what's going

51:32on here my overall thoughts it's incredible

51:38tablo salesforce has moved heaven and earth

51:42to get this feature out in such little time

51:46it's responded

51:48it's gone hell for leather it's pulled

51:49resources it's pushed certain things out

51:52the way it's

51:52pulled a team together it's got all the

51:54stuff that it's gone big with the marketing

51:56it's

51:57if you've ever wanted to see tablo or sales

51:59force in this specifically case looking at

52:02tableau

52:03make something happen this is the perfect

52:06example to show you that and they've done

52:09it to a really

52:09high standard the interface is well

52:11polished yes there's bugs it's a beta they

52:13're going to improve

52:14those things and yes there's things that

52:16could be better yes it's not part of the

52:18native tableau

52:19cloud instance and you have to kind of hop

52:21around yes it's maybe going to be land

52:23locked behind

52:24explorer licenses but no doubt this is an

52:28incredible push if you're power bi using

52:31you're

52:31like oh power bi i've had this forever yes

52:33okay great if you look at car industries

52:36they're

52:36features that start off in some cars and

52:38then they're in every car and no one cares

52:40it's just

52:40the way it is analytics has become a

52:42commodity space so features will make their

52:45way across

52:45multiple products the difference though is

52:48how does the feature work and how well is

52:50it integrated

52:50with everything else okay that actually

52:53brings me to this point this feels like an

52:56extremely high

52:57level of polish but i wonder how much of

52:59the rest of the platform is going to get in

53:02the way of this

53:03experience so we've not looked at the

53:05capability of building data sources for

53:08this yet there are

53:09a few tweaks and a few assumptions in there

53:11there are a few restrictions ultimately you

53:14're going to

53:15need to build good published data sources

53:17to make this work you'll probably want to

53:19do that in

53:20desktop because in desktop you can build

53:22data models that work in a sort of very

53:24well designed

53:25way and we kind of saw the data model

53:27working inside of the advanced window that

53:30we created

53:30right we can actually go in there and pull

53:32those metrics in and write those

53:34calculations

53:34now what was interesting as i wrote those

53:36calculations and you pull the stuff in you

53:38did

53:38get a chart to show you what was going on

53:40and so that's actually quite important

53:42because you need

53:44to be able to see what you're doing and

53:45then when you save those it goes off and

53:47takes a snapshot of

53:48that and turns it into a metric and then

53:50those metrics are split into two domains a

53:52definition

53:53and then the underlying metrics related to

53:56that definition the flip side to that is if

54:02tablet can

54:02do this in nine months there's stuff that's

54:05been on the table for years that i just

54:08haven't touched

54:09and so that's this sort of shows your hand

54:11that you're listening you just don't think

54:14those things

54:14are important and desktop got the same

54:17level of love in terms of chart design and

54:20polish and

54:21enhancement as this that's a signal to

54:24people right and yes look new chart types

54:27are coming

54:27soon to tableau desktop and all that stuff

54:30ai is coming to create a focus features

54:33tableau

54:33copilot is a good example so those things

54:35have to come and they have to come quickly

54:38to really

54:38sit alongside this and for people to see

54:41the platform move on but you know what like

54:44i think

54:44it was a really soft smooth experience i

54:46think there's lots of areas of like

54:48improvement it'd

54:49be nice to see more chart types than just

54:51line charts i think it's just because of

54:53what i built

54:54but i'd love to see these sort of domains

54:57broaden out gauges there i said someone's

55:00gonna ask for a

55:01gauge 100 progress bars we need some of

55:04those charts that fill this sort of card if

55:07you can

55:07get it on a playing card it should be on

55:09here right these are really nice cards and

55:11these aren't

55:12new i mean if i just do something and i

55:14just go to uh dribble is like a creative

55:17site right and

55:18if i just search analytics cards let's say

55:22and we see yeah you get i don't have to go

55:26far to find

55:27really good examples so you get obviously

55:29line charts you get here pie chart that's a

55:31good one

55:32you've got the line chart there bar charts

55:34all of these actually these are like great

55:36little

55:37hints and tips of where the product could

55:40go let's search chart types in here someone

55:45would have done

55:45a nice good graphic with lots of different

55:48chart types yeah these like some of these

55:50are far out

55:51they definitely don't necessarily belong in

55:52analytics strictly speaking because they're

55:54a bit like aesthetic over charts but let's

55:57take this right so rafael baran he doesn't

56:00know that

56:00i'm sitting on his website right now but

56:02look at this you've got lists that could be

56:05a card type

56:05you've got line charts we've already got

56:07that we've got bar charts over time that

56:09could be a

56:10chart type percentage progress bars as a

56:13pie chart that could be a chart type all of

56:16these could be

56:17wonderful chart types and i think that's

56:20the real potential with pulse you've got a

56:23an avenue to go

56:24in a really interesting way with these

56:26charts with things that people haven't seen

56:28before but have

56:29always wanted and you can do them quickly

56:31and easily because you're in the web

56:32interface you're

56:33no longer limited by visql so that to me is

56:36the opportunity that is where i see things

56:38being

56:39kind of kind of getting really exciting and

56:41i think it's it would be fantastic if tablo

56:44came

56:44out of the gate and prioritized those

56:46things the things that people ask for they

56:48're really difficult

56:49in desktop that developers waste a ton of

56:51time building no offense but yeah everyone

56:54wants them

56:55if i look at this our competitor analysis

56:57imagine building this as a metric right

57:00this would be

57:00fantastic just give people an interface to

57:03build exactly this and they can see this

57:05changing

57:05wowzers that would just be a game changer

57:08and i know i'm wish casting here but to me

57:11this is

57:11a creativity that tablo platform is really

57:14good at it's a creativity in tablo public

57:16you should be

57:17going to tablo public grabbing the most

57:19viewed chart types and visualizations and

57:22using those

57:23to drive how you build these awesome things

57:25in tablo pulse like really bring all that

57:28creativity

57:28into the platform and make pulse do

57:30something that is just hard to do if you're

57:33trying to do it

57:33manually because that will draw people in

57:36and it'll just make people enjoy defining

57:38metrics

57:38rather than having to build metrics and

57:40that's like a step change in the way people

57:42think about

57:42that focusing people on the definition

57:44which means the building is done for you

57:47and therefore all the

57:48ai and all the automation whatever can

57:50happen on top of that fantastic i realized

57:53my video froze

57:55i just see myself like completely static so

57:57i've stopped the video to come back so

58:00sorry i froze

58:00for a minute there it is what it is but

58:03yeah what i was saying is bring all that

58:05creativity into

58:07the platform and i think it'll be fantastic

58:09but there we have it that's tablo pulse

58:13this is my

58:13first gambit this was not some sort of

58:15video of how to do this how it works i will

58:18have to build

58:18some more interesting metrics here and i

58:20think it'll be really fun to kind of get

58:23that done

58:23but yeah that's it thanks for watching and

58:26i'll see you in the next one

58:28you

58:29you

58:29you

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