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

> This is content from just-tim, the data-and-analytics channel by Tim Ngwena (formerly 'Tableau Tim'). Tim has 12+ years of hands-on BI experience and covers Tableau most of all, plus Power BI, Looker, Hex, SQL and data modelling, the analytics industry, and the craft of doing the job — always tool-agnostic and honest about the trade-offs.

- **Author:** Tim Ngwena (just-tim, https://just-tim.com/about)
- **Published:** 2021-05-14
- **Format:** Video · 26 min watch · transcript available
- **Topics:** Data visualisation, Tool strategy
- **Tools:** Tableau (calculated fields, dashboards, extensions, formatting, maps, public, web edit)
- **Canonical:** https://just-tim.com/posts/use-tableau-public-in-the-browser-for-free-new-in-tableau-20211
- **Watch:** https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qE0luB0_qB8

Tableau have brought WebEdit to Tableau Public as part of the 2021.1 release, letting you build vises entirely in the browser for free. I walk through creating a profile, uploading data, building charts, calculations, dashboards, and using the new extensions, along with a few catches to watch for.

## Key takeaways

- Tableau Public WebEdit lets you build full vises, calculations and dashboards in the browser for free, with 10GB of compressed storage that you're unlikely to ever fill
- You can only connect to uploaded files (Excel, CSV) — no databases or cloud storage like Google Drive or OneDrive — and creating an extract gives better performance and unlocks certain calculations
- Number formatting lives in the marks pane dropdown rather than the usual right-click menu, which can trip up desktop users looking for the percentage option
- Ad blockers and browser extensions can interfere with the AWS CloudFront connection, causing issues like being unable to save workbooks
- There's no reliable draft autosave yet, so always save before closing the browser, and use the 'works with Tableau Public' filter when browsing extensions

## Chapters

- 0:00 WebEdit comes to Tableau Public
- 0:49 Profiles, storage and hidden vises
- 3:17 Beta caveats and ad blocker issues
- 4:51 Uploading data and creating an extract
- 7:11 Building charts, maps and tables
- 10:24 Calculations and number formatting
- 12:50 Saving workbooks
- 14:04 Building a dashboard
- 16:49 Extensions in the browser
- 24:40 Final thoughts

Watch the full video, read the transcript and use chapter deep-links on the page: https://just-tim.com/posts/use-tableau-public-in-the-browser-for-free-new-in-tableau-20211

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