Use Tableau Public in the browser for FREE! New in tableau 2021.1

0:00Hey, it's Tim here. Today, Tableau have

0:02released a great new feature for Tableau

0:03Public. They've brought WebEdit to Tableau

0:06Public.

0:07This is absolutely huge because essentially

0:10you can now build data vises in the browser

0:12using the power of Tableau entirely for

0:15free.

0:16In this video, I'm going to show you how.

0:18One other thing, this is part of the 2021.1

0:20release.

0:21If you haven't checked out the videos that

0:22I have on the channel about that release,

0:25go check it out.

0:26The last thing to note here is this is the

0:28full power of Tableau through the browser.

0:31There are a couple of catches because it's

0:32a free product. I'll come to those in a bit

0:33.

0:34But essentially you can do everything you

0:35can do in the desktop version of Tableau

0:37Public in terms of building a vis, creating

0:40calculations.

0:41You can do pretty much all of that with

0:42just a couple of catches and I'll come to

0:44those when I go through the video.

0:46But it's all there entirely for free. Let's

0:48get stuck in.

0:49OK, so we are here in the browser. I'm

0:51essentially already on the Tableau Public

0:52homepage.

0:53You can see that I've got my email plugged

0:54in. This is just an email I use for Tableau

0:56Public.

0:57I don't ever check it. So don't try and

0:58send me a message here at all. I just get

1:00ignored entirely.

1:02But nonetheless, what we need to do is go

1:04to our profile. Now, if you haven't ever

1:06created a profile, make sure you just go

1:07ahead and create a profile here.

1:09Once you've done that, you have access to

1:11this capability.

1:13But if you don't need to build anything,

1:15you can just go in and browse Tableau

1:16Public without ever creating a vis.

1:19This is if you want to create the vises and

1:21publish things. That's what your profile is

1:23going to be for.

1:24You get 10GB of space and this is great.

1:26You will never run out of space really.

1:28I know people who've been publishing vises

1:29nearly every single week and have not run

1:32out of this space.

1:34Essentially because Tableau compresses the

1:35workbook and the data.

1:37So even your largest workbooks in terms of

1:39Tableau are going to be about 70 to 80MB.

1:43And if they're any bigger than that, there

1:45's something going wrong with how you've put

1:47your data into Tableau.

1:49So even something like a million row Excel

1:51file is not going to push anywhere close to

1:54that size 80MB.

1:56So it's really, really good. Get stuck in,

1:58create a profile and then you can go

2:00straight into the capabilities.

2:02I'm going to click on my profile. This will

2:03take me to essentially what I see as an

2:05author.

2:06So now that we're here, you can see that I

2:07've got a few vises.

2:09A couple of things to note. I've obviously

2:11hidden some visualisations. That's what

2:13these little icons are.

2:14And essentially all that means is I've

2:15built something and I have made it public.

2:17So if you want to learn how to use Tableau,

2:19but you don't want the whole world to see

2:20what you're doing, you can of course do

2:22this.

2:23Build your vis, make it hidden and when

2:24people come to your profile, they can't see

2:26this.

2:27So there's actually a little option here on

2:28the top right hand side where you can view

2:30your profile as what other people see.

2:33So if I go hit others, you can see that

2:34they only see my nice polished vises.

2:37It's a bit like Instagram. You only post

2:39your best photos and the not so good ones

2:41get chucked out.

2:42Except for here you don't have to delete

2:43anything. You can just keep your nice vises

2:45available to the public.

2:47Now the next thing is of course your

2:49profile. So you get a little bit of

2:51information.

2:52Now you can of course update as much of

2:54this or as little of this as you want, but

2:56that's essentially all this is.

2:58It's just like a profile set of information

2:59.

3:00Then you've got these section vises,

3:01followers, following and favourites.

3:04And this has always been part of Tableau

3:05Public. This is not new at all.

3:07What has been new is that they've improved

3:08the Tableau Public interface. Check out my

3:10other video on that.

3:12They've actually improved the search

3:13interface so you can find visualisations

3:15and authors a lot more easily.

3:17But the thing we're here to talk about

3:19today is actually this, create a vis.

3:22And the thing to note is that it is

3:23actually in beta.

3:25This is live and it's available for

3:27everyone to use, but it's in beta, which

3:30means Tableau is still developing and Table

3:31au is still working on this.

3:33The very last thing I will say about this

3:35is that I actually tried this earlier on

3:37today and I had a couple of issues.

3:39And I realised the issue was because I had

3:41an ad blocker enabled.

3:43And actually this system is talking to a

3:46system in AWS called CloudFront.

3:49And my ad blocker was actually recognising

3:51that as some sort of ad tracking database.

3:54Now I don't know what sort of tracking goes

3:55on here in terms of how they monitor it and

3:57how they use that.

3:59That's all going to be in terms and

4:00conditions.

4:01But just to note, if you do have something

4:03that sort of interferes with how objects

4:05load on the page, like a toolbar or

4:07anything like that,

4:08runs in the browser, runs in chromes, all

4:09these extensions, they can interfere with

4:11the performance here.

4:13So if you're having issues, just check that

4:14one of your extensions isn't messing this

4:16up.

4:17I had an issue where ad guard, my ad

4:18blocking extension, was actually stopping

4:21me from saving workbooks once they were

4:23done.

4:24So that's something to check out.

4:25But now all the sort of disclaimers are out

4:26there, we can get stuck into this feature.

4:29I'm going to hit create a viz, and I'm very

4:30familiar with this because this is the same

4:32capability we've had now for a while in

4:35Tableau Server and Tableau Online.

4:37And so when I click on this link, we're

4:39going to hopefully go to a new instance and

4:40it's going to allow us to start building a

4:42viz.

4:43So you can see here that I've clicked on

4:44that. It was a little bit buggy.

4:46I think I wasn't actually in the window.

4:48But again, these are bugs to be expected. I

4:50don't know exactly what was going on.

4:51The other thing to note is we only have the

4:53ability to connect to files.

4:55I think what will happen, I'm hoping will

4:57happen, is that they'll add more sources.

5:00I think the biggest sort of thing I'd love

5:02to see here is actually the addition of

5:04global data sources.

5:06Things like data sources from the World

5:07Health Organization, data sources from

5:10organizations such as UNICEF,

5:12organizations that put out data to the

5:13world so people can tell stories with data.

5:16I'd love to see those become native sources

5:18here so people don't have to go find them

5:20and clean them and pass them.

5:22The other thing to bear in mind is that you

5:25still can't yet connect to cloud data

5:27sources.

5:28And I'm talking about specifically things

5:30like Google Drive, Microsoft Office 365,

5:33OneDrive, Box,

5:34all those kind of file storage systems

5:35because that's where a lot of people do

5:37sometimes keep their flat files.

5:39So although it says files, what it really

5:42means is it wants you to upload data from

5:45your computer.

5:47So you can see here this little arrow. I

5:48drew the wrong annotation there.

5:49So you can see here it wants you to upload

5:51data from your machine.

5:53So I'm going to go ahead and hit upload and

5:55I'm going to bring in none other than Super

5:57store.

5:58So I've got this Excel file here. You can

6:00see it's a .xls.

6:01I think .scsv will also work. Any sort of

6:03standard file will typically work.

6:06The best way to think of these is that a

6:07tablet is limiting this so that you sort of

6:10don't start buying their paid products.

6:12So if you want to connect to a database,

6:13unfortunately you won't be able to do that.

6:15But if you just want to connect to an Excel

6:17file, a very simple file, just upload the

6:19file and then you'll have it appear here in

6:21the interface.

6:22Then what we can do is we can just start

6:23using Tableau as normal. I just dragged in

6:25orders into the view.

6:27You can see that it works exactly the same.

6:29What I am going to do is create an extract

6:30because this will make things a lot better.

6:33And if you've never used Tableau, generally

6:35what I'd say is just create an extract

6:37anyway

6:38because there's some calculations that will

6:39happen in the future that will be much

6:41easier.

6:42If A) it's an extract, they'll be much

6:43faster and also there are some calculations

6:46that can only be done with an extract.

6:48So if you're connecting to a file, you

6:49might as well create an extract because you

6:51don't need any sort of live connection

6:53and you're going to get better performance

6:54as a result.

6:55So that's basically my advice. Try and do

6:57that.

6:58And then now we've created an extract. You

6:59can see here that it's got this sort of

7:01completion time of 9.53

7:04which is when I'm recording this video here

7:05in the UK.

7:06And now I can go to Sheet 1. So let's go

7:08ahead to Sheet 1 and see how this works.

7:11And so you can see here that we have a very

7:13, very nice sort of setup.

7:15Now we get the exact same interface that we

7:17get in Tableau Desktop.

7:19So everything is exactly the same.

7:21A couple of tricks here though. What you

7:23can't do in Desktop is zoom out to

7:25essentially get a larger interface

7:28or zoom in, sorry, zoom out to get a

7:31smaller interface and zoom in to get this

7:35sort of much more spacious setup.

7:37And I could never read this or work like

7:39this but you do get the space.

7:41So it's a very good place to come and work

7:42on something that's supposed to be

7:44absolutely huge and sort of get away with

7:46it.

7:47Okay, so let me set it back to 100% so it's

7:49back to normal so you can see what's going

7:50on.

7:51Now I'm going to try and build something.

7:53You can do literally everything.

7:55I will say this though. Some of the

7:56features are there, they're just not in the

7:59usual place, especially if you're a desktop

8:01user.

8:02So let's go ahead and drag sales onto rows.

8:04Then what I will do is I'll bring my sub

8:05category and put it onto columns to build a

8:08very basic table.

8:09This is the classic demo basically in Table

8:12au. You build a bar chart, the next thing

8:14you do is you build a map

8:15and everyone's always amazed about how

8:17quick and easy it is to build a map.

8:19You just double click on the geographical

8:20field.

8:21Essentially Tableau knows the names of

8:23locations around the world over a certain

8:25population.

8:26So if you click on that field and it has

8:27those names, it just figures out where they

8:29are.

8:30In this case I clicked state and it built

8:32this map.

8:33If I want it to be a filled map I just go

8:34here to the marks pane, then I make it this

8:37map option and then boom.

8:39Instead of dots I get a map. Very, very

8:40simple.

8:41The last thing I will do is I'll put sales

8:43on color.

8:44That basically means that I'm coloring this

8:46map with my sales values and it's going to

8:48aggregate the sales

8:50and even give me a legend over here on the

8:52right hand side so you can see that it's

8:54very easy and flexible to work with.

8:56I will style this like I always style stuff

8:58in desktop so I'll click on this color,

9:00I'll give everything a white border just to

9:01create some separation between each of

9:03these states.

9:04And now that's starting to look a lot

9:06better for me.

9:07The last thing I'll do is I will hold

9:09command and I'll drag sales onto label.

9:12If you hold control on the windows it does

9:13the same thing, command on the mac and

9:16control on the windows.

9:18And see here you can basically see this is

9:20all set up, this is all very nice and good.

9:23I've got the numbers and now I can go to

9:24the next page.

9:25Now the last thing what I will do here is I

9:26'll build a table.

9:28Look how easy it is to build a table now.

9:30I think people are going to be using this

9:32to build tables every single day

9:35because this is probably the fastest way to

9:37build any sort of table that you need.

9:39So let's go ahead and do this.

9:41Let's maybe buy a category and then what I

9:43will do is I will bring in subcategory as

9:47well

9:48just to give us a little bit of hierarchy,

9:50a little bit of structure.

9:51Tableau understands dates so I can expand

9:53this date hierarchy and boom we've got a

9:55nice little table there.

9:57So that's a very basic set of stuff. I've

9:59built three very basic vises.

10:01You can of course carry on. ShowMe works

10:03just the same way.

10:04I know a lot of people rely on ShowMe.

10:07If you're using ShowMe every single day

10:09trust me you don't need to be using it.

10:11You shouldn't be using it.

10:12Check out my video on that topic as well

10:14where I cover why you shouldn't be using

10:16ShowMe

10:17and how to use ShowMe to stop using ShowMe

10:19essentially.

10:20So we've got three sheets here, we've built

10:22something very simple.

10:24Now the other thing is sometimes you want

10:26to do things like create a calculation.

10:28So let's go ahead and create another sheet

10:30and let's just go ahead and just see what

10:32the calculation window is like.

10:33So let's create a calculated field.

10:34You see we get this box and it's modal just

10:36like normal.

10:37I can click out of this window and it's

10:39still there.

10:40So let's go ahead and work with this.

10:43So I'm going to create the profit ratio

10:44calculation.

10:45So what I'll do is I'll say sum of profit.

10:49Now it will auto complete as well so I can

10:51just go ahead and select that there.

10:53And do that divided by sum of sales.

10:57And again that will also complete there and

11:00I can just close that off.

11:02Then we can call this profit ratio and go

11:05ahead and do that.

11:09Hit apply.

11:10And now that we've done that we've got our

11:11calculation just right here.

11:13It's just appeared on the left hand side.

11:15So we're pretty much done.

11:16We're going to hit OK.

11:17Now the real stinger with this one is how

11:19do you change that to a percentage?

11:21Because watch what happens when I bring

11:23this segment into rows and I paste it in.

11:26Okay we've got the consumer, corporate and

11:28so on and so forth.

11:30So now if I drag the percentage, it's

11:31supposed to be a percentage, but if I drag

11:33it in you can see it's 0.11548.

11:36Now for all of you desktop aficionados the

11:38first thing you're going to do is either

11:41right click on profit ratio and then go to

11:44find the formatting options.

11:46And you'll be like wait they're not there.

11:48This is exactly what I did earlier on today

11:50.

11:51I couldn't figure out what was going on.

11:53Full disclosure I knew I couldn't figure it

11:55out until I finally found it later on.

11:58I had to dig around some documentations to

11:59find out where it was.

12:01But here we have the options.

12:03It's not there.

12:04I right clicked on the interface.

12:05You'd only get the annotation marks there.

12:07So I was like where on earth is this?

12:09I couldn't even find the feature.

12:11And actually it's right here in the marks

12:13pane.

12:14And for everyone who's watching if you just

12:15go to the marks pane.

12:16This is the marks pane.

12:18And if I actually go here and click on this

12:20drop down you'll see that I do get the

12:22option to format the number here.

12:25And so when I click on that I'm actually

12:26then able to select percentage and now we

12:28're pretty much ready to go.

12:30So that's how you do formatting with

12:32numbers in web edit.

12:34It's very sort of easy to do.

12:35I just I should know that I just couldn't

12:37figure it out earlier on today.

12:39So there we have it.

12:40And if you're using show me of course this

12:41all works on the right hand side.

12:43You can still do a whole bunch of other

12:44things.

12:45But I'm not interested in that.

12:47I just wanted to basically create a

12:48calculation.

12:50Now what I just did there is I hit the X

12:52button and it's asking me to save the work

12:54book.

12:55So I'm actually going to save a copy.

12:57And it's asking me to save a copy because

12:59technically I haven't saved this anywhere.

13:02So I'm just going to call this new public

13:06test workbook.

13:09And hit save.

13:11Now that I've done that it's going to go

13:12ahead and save.

13:14Now this does take a little bit of time.

13:16If you've got an ad blocker it might block

13:18this.

13:19OK.

13:20And so you can see here it chucked me out

13:21of Tableau.

13:22I don't know what went on there.

13:24So let's go back to my profile and let's

13:25pray that it saved it.

13:27I really hope it saved it.

13:28I'd love to start again.

13:29There you go.

13:30There's the new public test workbook.

13:32Let's go ahead and view and see.

13:34I really hope it saved it.

13:36I hope it didn't sort of just trash it.

13:38There we go. It did save it.

13:39If I just go back and close this it kind of

13:41I think it just bugged out and it threw me

13:43out.

13:43But actually if I go back in as long as I

13:45hit save everything is still there.

13:47So sheet one, sheet two and sheet three.

13:50Now there's a catch here.

13:51Don't close your browser without forgetting

13:52to save this because I'm not convinced that

13:55they've actually enabled that sort of draft

13:56feature yet.

13:58And I think that's really important because

13:59people will accidentally close browser

14:01fields whilst using this.

14:03OK.

14:04So now that we've built this this next

14:05thing to ask is well how do I build a

14:06dashboard?

14:07So of course let's go ahead and do that.

14:09Let's hit this sort of icon here at the

14:10bottom.

14:11You see we've got four sheets.

14:12I'm just going to double click each and

14:13every one of them.

14:15That is a sort of quickest hackiest way to

14:17get everything in a visualization in a

14:19Tableau workbook sorry into view.

14:22And now we have all the visits.

14:24And then what I can do is I can start

14:25arranging them now that they're here.

14:27So this is not going to be the best visit

14:28ever.

14:29I barely build visits on Tableau Public.

14:31I build most of my visits for clients.

14:33So I'm just going to take this small sheet

14:35here this tiny little sheet here and put it

14:37underneath the legend over here on the

14:39right hand side.

14:40And then what I will do is I think the

14:42table the table needs more space.

14:45So really what I should do is I should

14:48really put this table this sort of not the

14:52table sorry this sort of bar chart should

14:55be on the right hand side of this map just

14:57like that.

14:58And then I can sort of better balance

15:00things out a little bit and I can drag this

15:02up a little bit.

15:04The width is not quite working out how I

15:06thought it would work out.

15:08So what I might do is I might just dump

15:09this sheet here.

15:11I will take this legend and what I will do

15:13is I'll make this a floating element so I

15:15can move this legend where I want.

15:17And I'll just put it here and next to that

15:19map because that's the legend that it

15:21belongs to.

15:22And then for this sheet here you probably

15:23wondering well how do I get it to just fit

15:25the width of this space.

15:27Well if you go to the top like top here of

15:29the toolbar you can just say fit width and

15:32it will kind of squeeze everything in so to

15:34make sure it fits.

15:35So there we go we have a basic viz here.

15:38You can add interactions of course all

15:39those capabilities are there.

15:41If I just hit on this little filter icon

15:43that will enable a quick action and that

15:45will basically allow me to bring some

15:47interactivity to this very very quickly.

15:49If I want to start clicking and dragging

15:50and interacting with stuff I can.

15:52But you also get the dashboard actions

15:54capability so if you want to do something

15:56yourself that's a little bit more bespoke.

15:59Go ahead add an action.

16:01We don't have filter action parameter

16:02actions here but I do know that Tableau

16:04have some extensions that are available for

16:06that.

16:07So let's go ahead and hit OK and we'll

16:08check out the extensions in a second.

16:11But that's very much sort of it that's the

16:12web edit capability here.

16:14We've built a dashboard we've done

16:15everything we need to do.

16:17I'm now going to go ahead and save it

16:18because I've already given it a name.

16:20It's now just going to go ahead and save on

16:22top of what I had before so it's not having

16:24asked me again what would you like to save

16:26it as.

16:27And it's not going to ask me to save a copy

16:28as it sort of termed it.

16:30So that's basically web edit in a nutshell.

16:33All the same capabilities of Tableau now

16:35available to you for free through Tableau

16:37Public in the browser.

16:39Nothing to install if you've got a slow

16:41laptop you don't have to buy a new one just

16:43to use Tableau Public.

16:45You can start using it today.

16:47Okay you can see that the workbook saved.

16:49Now one of the nice things is with the 2021

16:53.1 release they actually enabled some

16:56extensions.

16:58And if I go over here to the left hand side

17:00you'll see that there's this option here

17:02for extensions on the bottom left.

17:04And so it's sort of weird because these

17:05extension became public sort of very

17:07quickly.

17:08And they also updated the feature so that

17:10you could actually access this gallery in

17:12the product.

17:13But Tableau Public itself didn't make it to

17:15this sort of position.

17:17So down here on the bottom left you can see

17:18I've got an extension.

17:20I'm going to go ahead and make my dashboard

17:22a little bit bigger and just see what

17:23extensions we have.

17:25It might be that there are some extensions

17:26but they're not quite working.

17:28Things might be in beta.

17:30So let's go ahead I'm just going to drag an

17:31extension.

17:32I'm going to put it here in the middle and

17:34when we drop it in we get the extensions

17:36interface.

17:37And check this out.

17:38People have been building extensions for

17:41Tableau on the browser.

17:43So now not only does desktop have this

17:45capability but in the browser you can go

17:47ahead and take advantage of these.

17:49So if you want to do things with parameter

17:51actions, well look people have built a

17:53bunch of different sort of tools that you

17:55can use your parameter with.

17:57Most of them are with Tableau.

17:59So a quick what if, a single checkbox

18:00parameter, parameter actions, data driven

18:03parameters.

18:04All of these are actually available here.

18:06You could do something with vis formatting

18:08for example.

18:09Mark Jackson here has built a Trellis chart

18:11auto resize.

18:13And so there's so many sort of great little

18:15tools.

18:16If we go to custom new vis types here you

18:19can see that people have built extensions

18:21that will sort of let you build charts that

18:24are sort of you know,

18:25you know just not out of the box

18:27essentially.

18:29These are going to be absolutely great.

18:31So there's so many different extensions.

18:33I literally would get lost just going

18:34through this.

18:35I'll probably do another video going

18:36through some of my favorite top 10

18:38extensions to get to know.

18:40It's going to take a while to sort of get

18:41through this.

18:42So you know bear with me while I do that.

18:45But long story short there's a whole bunch

18:47of extensions to be aware of.

18:49Now the thing to be careful though is not

18:51all of them work with Tableau Public.

18:54So if you see here there's a little check

18:55box that says works with Tableau Public.

18:58So let's go ahead and check that.

19:00And when we do that it will also fill to

19:02this list.

19:03So now my list you'll see just a few

19:05extensions disappeared.

19:07So now if I go to all categories these are

19:08the ones that have been tested to work with

19:10Tableau Public.

19:12So it's actually a handful of extensions.

19:15Bar race is a really really good one.

19:17So let's go ahead and actually use this.

19:19Let's go ahead and select this and we'll

19:21add it to the dashboard.

19:22What I'd love to do is sort of see it on

19:24the sub category.

19:26So let's just put it in and see what it

19:28does.

19:29So we're waiting for the extension.

19:30The way I know that is over here on the

19:32bottom left it was actually saying waiting

19:34for an extension.

19:35So now that that's there it's basically

19:37asking me to add data.

19:39The image either needs a data source or

19:41some data items are missing.

19:44You can set this by selecting the configure

19:46option in the extensions edit tab.

19:48So let's go ahead into this little dot here

19:51.

19:51And I can configure it just there.

19:53So when that happens it opens yet another

19:55little sort of pop up.

19:57And now that we have this we have the

19:59interface where we can edit this stuff.

20:02So now what I will say is that extensions

20:05are going to be the wild wild west of Table

20:07au.

20:08Tableau has always been this great sort of

20:10safe place.

20:11But as soon as people start building stuff

20:13instead of Tableau what you have is

20:15different design languages,

20:17different ways of interpreting sort of

20:18standards.

20:19And so I can go ahead and select a works

20:21heet here.

20:22In this case I'm going to select sheet one

20:24as my data source.

20:26Because that is actually a bar chart so I'm

20:28assuming I can do whatever I need to with

20:29that.

20:30I don't have anything on colors.

20:32I'm essentially kind of already configuring

20:35what's going on here.

20:37There's not really much sort of to change.

20:40There's a lot of options for this one.

20:42So I'm just going to hit save and just hope

20:43that what I get out of the box is free.

20:45And there you go.

20:46It's basically rebuilt this chart.

20:48Now there's an upside and a downside to

20:50this.

20:51So let's go ahead and just start playing

20:52this stuff.

20:53You see it's basically cycling through the

20:55years and it's able to sort of figure

20:56things out.

20:57So if I hit play there it goes 2018, 2019

20:59and so on and so forth.

21:01If I go and configure that again I think I

21:04can maybe change this time frame that it

21:07animates to be something different.

21:10So let's go ahead and see if we can change

21:12that to be a little bit more granular so we

21:15can see the animation actually taking place

21:16.

21:17I'm not sure I actually can.

21:20Bar, race chart, chart items, chart values,

21:23dimensions.

21:25Yeah, no selection.

21:28What's going on here?

21:30I'm not really clear about how to sort of f

21:32iddle with this.

21:33But you get the idea.

21:35Extensions are going to basically allow you

21:36to do a lot of things that are quite

21:38difficult.

21:39You might not necessarily like how they're

21:40being done.

21:41So what I'd encourage you to do is before

21:43you sort of invest in an extension really

21:46test it.

21:46Really make sure you're happy with it.

21:48You can see that I got excited about that

21:49one and it didn't quite work out.

21:51But of course, you know, developers are

21:53going to be building on these.

21:55So don't take that example as like, you

21:57know, a standard example of what the

21:59developer is capable of.

22:01These things take time with millions of

22:03people using Tableau Public.

22:06It's also going to create bugs that people

22:07have never seen before.

22:10Because before these extensions ran in

22:11enterprise where the bugs probably didn't

22:12even get communicated.

22:14So this is going to be a tough time because

22:16extensions will have to start from a place

22:18where there isn't as much feedback

22:20available.

22:21And it will just take time for that

22:22feedback to trickle into people's workloads

22:25and developers to make those work.

22:27But it's good to know that Tableau do check

22:28these extensions.

22:30They are checked for security.

22:32And anything that's been validated to work

22:34with Tableau Public has probably gone

22:35through some sort of quality control as

22:37well.

22:38So this is really cool.

22:40You can go and start working with a whole

22:41bunch of extensions.

22:43Start doing some absolutely crazy things.

22:45An extension I think has made it into this.

22:48A semiotic hierarchy.

22:49I really like this one.

22:51This is one by Star Scheme.

22:52And it's actually a pretty advanced

22:55extension.

22:57It's not the kind of thing I can cover even

22:59in one video.

23:00Because it's really powerful.

23:02It uses the library, a D3 library.

23:04And it actually looks like Tableau.

23:06You can see they followed the styling and

23:08theming of Tableau itself.

23:10So if I go to Configure, it actually opens

23:12up this little tab.

23:14They've thought about their sort of

23:15interface design.

23:17And if you check this out as I load this up

23:19, you'll see that it actually looks and

23:20feels familiar.

23:21It's sort of had some deliberate sort of

23:23thought to it.

23:24And you can choose different sort of chart

23:26types.

23:27These would just take a lot of time and

23:30some really complex calculations to get

23:33them working.

23:35And they're not necessarily best practice.

23:38But if you want to build something

23:39beautiful and you sort of want something

23:40quick and easy out of the box, this is

23:42going to be it.

23:43I'm going to use Sheet 3 just to see if it

23:45can do anything with this because that's

23:47the one with the hierarchy.

23:49I think I'm going to try and use sub

23:50category and category as the hierarchy here.

23:53And see if there's anything we can do with

23:54the year hierarchy as well.

23:56It's kind of thinking about it.

23:58So let's try and see what happens here.

24:00Nothing's going to happen I think because

24:03number one, my ad block has probably kicked

24:04in.

24:05Or number two, it's just a bug.

24:07And again, this is going to happen.

24:09So I should really stop starting to show

24:11extensions on day one of a new feature

24:13because they will be buggy inevitably.

24:16But what I just want to do is highlight,

24:18look, there are extensions out there.

24:20Go in, get stuck in.

24:22Don't be overcritical of these things.

24:24They've only just come out.

24:26People have spent time building them and

24:27they have done it for free.

24:29In some cases, these extensions are paid.

24:31So no, send positive feedback.

24:33Send positive criticism so that people can

24:35make these things better.

24:37Don't just sort of dunk on them because

24:38they don't work on day one.

24:40So that's pretty much it from me.

24:42I think I've shown you all I can show you

24:43here.

24:44I'm going to hit close and see what happens

24:45.

24:46Is it going to ask me to save? Yes.

24:48It has a prompt there to make sure that I

24:49save everything.

24:50If I'd closed the browser unfortunately, it

24:51would have just closed.

24:52So let's go back and see my published vid.

24:55So this is the dashboard. It's a very ugly

24:56dashboard.

24:57I will keep this public on my profile so

24:59you can all see that it's there.

25:01It's not a testament of my skill or

25:02anything. I hope not.

25:04And now that's saved. Just give it a few

25:06more seconds.

25:08Try and fill the air while it does that.

25:10There you go. It's saved.

25:12And now it chucks me back to my profile.

25:14And I can tweak the vid, give it a title,

25:16blah, blah, blah.

25:19But I don't want to do any of that. I just

25:20want to view it in my profile.

25:21And there we have it.

25:23We have Tableau Public in the browser.

25:26And the best thing of all, it's free for

25:27everyone to use.

25:29So just go ahead, create your profile, get

25:30stuck in, start making vids.

25:32No one has an excuse now to learn, to not

25:34learn Tableau.

25:36In fact, I maybe might start using this

25:38myself so everyone can follow along

25:40and sort of find it easy to use.

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