# Were back!

> 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:** 2025-09-23
- **Format:** Video · 7 min watch · transcript available
- **Topics:** Industry trends, Tool strategy, Community
- **Tools:** Tableau (next, public)
- **Canonical:** https://just-tim.com/posts/were-back
- **Watch:** https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aLXFx5-kt8A

After a three-month break, I'm explaining where the channel is heading. I lay out four upcoming opinion videos covering Tableau's diverging Next and Core worlds, the question of what a dashboard is actually worth, my honest struggle with passion for learning analytics tools, plus a new seasonal posting schedule and a shift away from LinkedIn.

## Key takeaways

- Four back-to-back perspective videos are coming next week (Tuesday to Friday), followed by the long-promised crash courses on a weekly schedule
- The planned themes are cost-per-query and the value of a dashboard, whether Tableau Public actually helps the Tableau brand, waning passion for relearning tools because of the Tableau Next shift, and Tableau Next itself
- A LinkedIn Tableau Next course is in production with a target of going live before the end of the year
- YouTube becomes the primary home for videos; LinkedIn will only get monthly summaries and AI-assisted written versions of the transcripts
- The channel is moving to a seasons model (winter, spring, summer) with strategic breaks roughly aligned to product releases

## Chapters

- 0:03 Returning after a long break
- 0:21 Struggling to cover a diverging Tableau
- 0:55 Courses and crash courses in progress
- 1:46 The four upcoming perspective videos
- 4:25 Posting schedule and leaving LinkedIn
- 5:22 Introducing channel seasons

Watch the full video, read the transcript and use chapter deep-links on the page: https://just-tim.com/posts/were-back

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