Vlog #5: Keyonte & Devs on Stage, Day 2 (Tableau Conference 2016) #data16

0:00So it's day two and the first thing that

0:03happens today that everyone goes to is the

0:05keynote.

0:06I am super super excited. Today is also the

0:08first full day so this is a full-on sort of

0:11session and

0:13I think the most amazing thing about today

0:16is yesterday we all landed, everyone got

0:19accustomed

0:20to the venue. It's a slightly weird venue

0:22this year I'm not gonna lie. I'm not a big

0:26fan of it

0:27but it works and everyone's here and that's

0:29all that matters. I am really looking

0:31forward today

0:32lots lots to cover lots to see lots to do

0:36probably the first like 15 hour day

0:39it's going to be amazing. Hey good time to

0:43you good stuff.

0:48Yeah just anyone near the convention center

0:54the roads near it are closed so wherever

0:59suits.

1:15Ladies and gentlemen please welcome to the

1:18stage president and CEO Adam Cilipski.

1:44So the keynote's just happened absolutely

1:46blown away absolutely amazing I can't wait

1:48to see what's

1:49all the stuff later on Devs on Stage at

1:53Five are going to be at that so we'll see

1:55how that goes.

2:00So

2:26okay so just finished the hands-on server

2:29training for tab jobs it's about

2:33two hour session an hour and a half it was

2:36really really good yeah a really good

2:38session loved it.

2:53Please welcome your host for Devs on Stage

2:56our chief development officer Andrew Beers.

3:11So

3:23so

3:49okay so Devs on Stage has just finished and

3:52it was incredible absolutely incredible

3:55probably the best session from conference

3:59all out just absolutely amazing absolutely

4:03loved it

4:03um I'm going to cover more of what was in

4:06the keynote a little bit later when I'm

4:08back in

4:09the flat but just wanted to say absolutely

4:11amazing I'm almost losing my voice.

4:18Wow wow wow Devs on Stage product keynote

4:23absolutely amazing so I just wanted to take

4:26a couple of minutes to summarize um what

4:29happened today I think the vlog doesn't do

4:32it justice.

4:33So the first thing was the three-year

4:35vision now in previous years what they've

4:37done is they've

4:38taken the opportunity to actually showcase

4:40features that are coming forward in the

4:42next

4:43year or so this year they took a slightly

4:45different stance and they showed the three-

4:47year vision

4:48and I must say that worked a treat it was

4:50absolutely amazing to see the direction

4:53that

4:53Tableau is moving in especially the three-

4:55year vision because often it's really really

4:58difficult

4:59to to sort of see how some of the ideas and

5:01features of the community come up with are

5:04going to be implemented and just to see

5:06that Tableau thinking and researching about

5:09so many

5:09different aspects of the technology is just

5:12vital it gives me faith and trust in the

5:14product and I

5:15think that's really important. The next

5:18thing was Project Maestro now that just

5:21looks like an

5:22amazing product if Tableau come to release

5:25it anytime soon. It's not clear how it will

5:29work

5:29with Tableau it was just a demo it's

5:32definitely sort of a future thinking but

5:36the idea of being

5:39able to visually clean and prepare your

5:42data in the same familiar way that you've

5:45been using to

5:47create analytics and visualizations in

5:50Tableau I think that's amazing and it's

5:53going to massively

5:54enhance and speed up the delivery of

5:56information to people I think that's the

5:58most vital thing

5:59being able to see and understand the

6:02problems in your data as well as then being

6:05able to see

6:06and understand your data full stop that's

6:08absolutely sensational. The other product I

6:12think people got really excited about

6:14especially us geeks is Hyper. Now Hyper is

6:17a new sort of

6:19innovation that's coming from Tableau in

6:22fact Tableau acquired Hyper. Hyper was a

6:25spin-off

6:26project from university essentially and so

6:29it's still mostly a research project but it

6:32seems that

6:33Tableau quickly turning the wheels to try

6:35and make this a commercial product so again

6:38this is

6:38exciting because what they were showing is

6:41its ability to ingest data real time and

6:44also speed up

6:47the delivery of information and I'm talking

6:49about not just millions of rows billions of

6:52rows and so

6:52if you think away if you think about the

6:54way Tableau works it's often quite hard to

6:58analyze

6:58big sets of data typically what people do

7:01is they leave extracts running overnight so

7:04that when

7:04people arrive in the morning it's ready for

7:06analysis but also you end up with these

7:08massive

7:09cumbersome extracts that are really hard to

7:12work with and so Hyper is a really

7:14interesting product

7:16and it's still not clear how it's going to

7:18work but from the sessions I went to and

7:20from the

7:20keynote it looks like a really really good

7:24product. Now towards the end of the day Dev

7:27s On Stage was

7:28again amazing now I'm just going to take

7:31this opportunity to say I'm a massive

7:33design geek okay

7:34so when they showed things like distribute

7:37evenly when they showed kerning when they

7:40showed

7:40padding and margins I was just on my knees

7:43absolutely amazing stuff I absolutely loved

7:46those features now you know you can sort of

7:48do some of that already but just having the

7:51features

7:51there means that a) it's going to be easier

7:54to do and b) other people are going to

7:56adopt these

7:57features and that's the key thing I'd like

7:59other people to take as much care and

8:01attention in

8:02design because it's really important and

8:04when you see visualizations of Tableau

8:05Public that do take

8:06that into account it's very very clear that

8:09they have a much bigger impact on how you

8:12perceive

8:13the stories that they're telling you. The

8:16other thing that was really interesting was

8:19the data

8:20preference features that were shown on Devs

8:22On Stage now these were slightly different

8:24to

8:25Maestro these were sort of more what's

8:27coming anytime soon and I think the one

8:30feature that

8:30sent the crowd crazy was PDF connector I

8:34mean just being able to take data from a

8:37PDF

8:38just who even thought that was possible

8:40absolutely amazing and I think at that

8:44point I even sent a

8:44tweet out just saying now this is just

8:46getting silly now I'd like to stop because

8:49they were

8:49just knocking out feature after feature it

8:52's just unreal. The changes to mobile as

8:55well

8:55really cool offline workbooks on your phone

8:58that would be great one of the biggest bugb

9:01ears with

9:01the mobile functionality at the moment is

9:03that you need an internet connection and

9:05where there's

9:05bad reception that's not going to work so

9:08it's good to have some offline capability

9:11coming

9:11as well as some enhancements to how it's

9:14going to work. Metrics were a really cool

9:16feature we

9:17saw this in the keynote but also a little

9:20bit hinted on Devs On Stage and I think

9:24that's going

9:24to be a really interesting thing because it

9:26sort of hints at different layers of

9:28analytics so you

9:29have summary level analytics which is where

9:31metrics come in then you have sort of

9:33middle tier which is

9:34more discovery and visualizations that let

9:38you browse and try and figure out where you

9:41should

9:41focus your attention then you have the

9:44lower level which is the detail stuff you

9:46know maybe

9:46seeing tables of information or granular

9:49granular information so it hints at this

9:51sort of tiered

9:52level of analytics which I think is

9:54absolutely the right way to go. It's really

9:56hard to expect

9:57people to just land in the detail and and

10:00explore it so being able to tear it I think

10:03absolutely

10:04incredible. The other thing is API support

10:07it's great to see Tableau continuing this

10:10drive to

10:10bring out APIs and client libraries to talk

10:14to Tableau and I think there's also a hint

10:17that this

10:18is going to be something that works

10:20throughout Tableau so it's not just going

10:21to be for the

10:22server side stuff but in the future it

10:24could be that even desktop has this so the

10:27direction seems

10:28to suggest that that's that's sort of where

10:30they're going and I think that's that's

10:32awesome.

10:33And in terms of analytics it was really

10:36good to see some new chart types. Chart

10:39types are really

10:40difficult right so Tableau likes to sort of

10:45take the path of academic sort of tried and

10:49tested

10:49visualization techniques that are proven to

10:53work and so bringing in new visualizations

10:56that conform

10:56to those as well as adding some analytical

10:59capabilities for example time series

11:02analysis

11:03and so on and so forth all of those that is

11:06all vital so all in all this was an amazing

11:09amazing day for me and I saw lots of

11:11features that I really really wanted. I can

11:15't wait to see some

11:16of these things in real time the only thing

11:18that really frustrated me from today was

11:20that most of

11:21this stuff didn't have a launch date some

11:23of it is vaguely coming in the next year

11:26some of it's

11:27coming maybe even further than that but I

11:30will say one thing last year Tableau

11:32showcased charts

11:34and tooltips this year they hinted it at it

11:37again in the keynote and I'm just gonna say

11:40everyone in the community is waiting for it

11:42from what you're showing us in the keynotes

11:45Tableau

11:45it looks pretty ready to me so what's the

11:49hold up anyway apart from that all good all

11:53good

11:53absolutely love today tomorrow's got a hard

12:02act to follow

12:05you

12:05so

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