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0:00Hey, in today's video, we are doing

0:01something very different.

0:03And as you can see, I'm joined by Andre

0:05today. And normally,

0:07what I do on the channel is I'd showcase

0:10some features, and I'd

0:11walk you through how they work. But when it

0:13comes to the Tableau

0:14developer space, I just don't know anywhere

0:16near as much as

0:17Andre. So I thought instead of pretending

0:18to know what I'm

0:19talking about, I thought we just have Andre

0:21here today. And we do

0:22a collaboration. So Andre, take it away,

0:24introduce yourself.

0:25Yeah, thanks for that, Tim. So I'm Andre, I

0:27'm a Tableau data

0:29dev ambassador. For the second year in a

0:31row, actually, it was

0:32in the inaugural group. And yeah, I've been

0:36using Tableau

0:38for eight years and developing on top of

0:40Tableau for five

0:41years, participated in quite a few hackath

0:45ons and created loads

0:47of video content, also lots of blog posts

0:49around Tableau, but

0:51also around other things like web

0:53development and cloud and

0:55data engineering. And all of that kind of

0:57fits into that

0:58whole kind of data dev space. And I'm

1:01excited to kind of look

1:03at the new stuff that that's there for the

1:05Tableau data

1:05that's today.

1:06Yeah, exactly. It's one of those it's one

1:08of those interesting

1:09things, because Tableau releases things

1:13like API improvements,

1:15and essentially features in the data dev

1:17space don't come out in

1:18the usual quarterly cadence, they just sort

1:20of come out when

1:21they're ready, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah,

1:23yeah, exactly. And

1:24so and so over the last, let's say, six

1:26months, there's been

1:27actually quite a few that many people might

1:29not have noticed or

1:30might notice. And things will cover a

1:33little later on

1:34throughout the video. And we've put timest

1:37amps. So if you're

1:38already getting bored, and you want to jump

1:40ahead, skip to the

1:41relevant section, we'll go into those

1:43things in lots of detail.

1:44So have a look at the timestamps as well.

1:46But it's probably worth

1:47starting by trying to understand sort of

1:49how we know each other,

1:50if that makes sense. And sort of how we

1:53work together. I can

1:55start by just saying you're a colleague. We

1:58work together at

1:59the Information Lab. So I'm very fortunate

2:01to work with someone

2:02like Andre actually, he's an incredibly

2:04talented person, not

2:05just from a Tableau perspective in terms of

2:09data dev and just

2:10web development in general. But also, I

2:13think I personally

2:14really appreciate being able to bounce

2:16ideas off you in terms of

2:17the way platforms and technologies come

2:19together. And

2:20also the you know, the good old sort of

2:23typical dev chats that

2:24we have about, you know, startups and stuff

2:26like that as

2:27well. And that's sort of predominantly I

2:29think how we

2:30know each other. But then also, we we've

2:31actually been at a

2:32hackathon together at the last in person

2:34conference, which was

2:36in Vegas 2019. Exactly crazy, right?

2:40Yeah, we we walked away with a within

2:43awards.

2:44We did win an award. I'll try and find a

2:47picture and put it on

2:48screen. We were coding together coding. I

2:51can't really say I was

2:52coding but we were hacking away with lane

2:55as well lane who was

2:57at the time a colleague but now has moved

2:59on. But nonetheless,

3:00yeah, it was a pretty pretty fun experience

3:02. Actually, it was

3:02nice to be sort of part of the atmosphere.

3:04And there are lots

3:05of great solutions that are built on that

3:07day, I think

3:07around the new API's at the time, which is

3:10now quite old.

3:11So yeah. So let me ask you this, we sort of

3:15know how you know how

3:17and how we know each other. But how did you

3:19become a, I'm going

3:20to say Tableau developer. And I don't mean

3:22that in the sense of

3:23the traditional sense, like, you know,

3:25building workbooks. I

3:25mean, how did you get into the data dev

3:27scene?

3:28Yeah, that's a good, that's a good question

3:30. When I started

3:33with Tableau, as I said, like eight years

3:35ago, I really

3:36enjoyed like, building things with Tableau,

3:38like the first

3:39dashboard that I built was like, Oh,

3:41actually, you can make this

3:42really cool thing really quickly. But then

3:46also, I

3:46started realizing also really quickly that,

3:49hey, building on

3:50top of Tableau is very exciting and doing

3:53more with the product

3:55and extending the product. Right. Kind of

3:57the very first

3:58kind of API that I started working with was

4:01the extensions,

4:02the dashboard extensions API. Back then it

4:05wasn't like an

4:06alpha version. So I was just like hacking

4:08away and like very

4:09early code. And that's kind of how I rolled

4:12into it. And then

4:14started just learning some of the hackath

4:15ons and good learning.

4:18A project that I worked on was where

4:21another technology that we

4:22specialize in is called Altrix. And I tried

4:26to make those two

4:27kind of work together more seamless. So

4:29integrate Altrix in

4:31a Tableau dashboard. So right users could

4:34then run their

4:35Altrix flows while they were like interrog

4:37ating charts and

4:38then getting insights in Tableau. So that

4:40was a little

4:41bit of a challenge that I set myself and

4:43how to do that work.

4:44And slowly along the way, you kind of pick

4:46up things like as

4:47you were saying about like web development

4:49and engineering.

4:51Yeah. That's the really cool thing about

4:53Tableau is that

4:53there's loads of like miscellaneous

4:56concepts around

4:57it. Yeah, we see loads of people interested

5:01in like predictive

5:02analytics because they they find that

5:04interesting, like

5:05integrating our server Python models into

5:07Tableau. There's a

5:09lot of like things you can specialize in

5:11and I figured out

5:12hey, this whole web development and API

5:14stuff. That's that's

5:15actually really cool to work with. That's

5:18kind of how we're

5:18all into it.

5:19Right, right. And I seem to recall I think

5:22you've studied

5:23the same Udemy course that everyone who's

5:25tried to get into

5:26web development has done, which was what's

5:28the name of the lady

5:29who runs that Udemy course? Do you remember

5:32the name?

5:33I remember doing one with Colt Steele. He

5:37did like to

5:38Oh, you did with the Colt Steele. Sorry.

5:40He's really good as well.

5:41Hashim Hashim is the one saying that the

5:44other one than Udemy.

5:45But I think everyone in web development has

5:48done like a

5:48handful of one of five or six web

5:50development courses. And

5:52they've used that to sort of kickstart a

5:55journey into it. One

5:56of the biggest things I always get asked by

5:59a lot of people who

6:00are new to data dev, and probably look at

6:02your journey,

6:03and they think, Oh, wow, you've you've come

6:05a really long way

6:06into the short amount of time. How do

6:08people sort of keep up

6:10the motivation because it takes time. It's

6:11not the kind of thing

6:12you can just, you know, it's not like

6:14desktop where you can kind

6:16of learn it very quickly. Tableau desktop

6:18is quite a

6:19straightforward tool to learn in a

6:20compressed amount of time. If

6:22you did a month of really focused learning,

6:25you could

6:25learn most of what you need to know. Yeah.

6:27But with web

6:27development, you need a lot more time and

6:29experience, right? So

6:30how do you keep that energy high? And how

6:31do you sort of

6:32Yeah, you really, I would say like, you

6:35really learn how to

6:37fail, that makes sense. You will fail more

6:39often than succeed.

6:40Like if you try something nine out of 10

6:42times, it doesn't work

6:43because you don't have the right skills yet

6:46to do it. Yeah, what

6:47I figured out is you really need to first

6:50find the best way for

6:52you to learn. So some people learn through

6:54reading books,

6:55others YouTube content, reading

6:57documentation, you need to find

6:59a mix of those elements in order to learn

7:02and keep on top of

7:04things. And what I realized a lot is that I

7:07learned a lot

7:08through examples. So if I see someone on

7:11YouTube building a

7:12particular project, and I think like, hey,

7:14I can like if I make

7:15few modifications, I can make it adapt to

7:17Tableau or to one of

7:18the other tools that we use. So I always

7:21try to like have a look

7:22at what other people are doing and then

7:24build on top of that.

7:25Right. But no, no one really always starts

7:27from scratch,

7:28right? That's not right. Always start with

7:30some idea or some

7:31kind of other project that people have been

7:33doing in

7:33another tool. And so yeah, it's, as I said,

7:37learn to fail,

7:38because there's so many elements to this,

7:40if you think about,

7:41hey, I want to learn how to embed Tableau

7:44in a website, for

7:45example, that sounds easy. And it has been

7:48made a lot easier.

7:49And that's we're going to look at later.

7:51But you still need to

7:52know the core skills such as HTML, CSS, and

7:55JavaScript, the

7:56building blocks of the web. So you need to

8:00understand those

8:01things. And you don't need to understand

8:04them like fully, but

8:05enough to make to make it work. And then

8:08slowly over time, you

8:10add features to it. And actually, for me,

8:13that's the fun

8:14bit about it is like that constant learning

8:17, you never had

8:18the idea. I know more than 1% of what to do

8:22, right? It's always

8:24like, hey, let's go next. And let's figure

8:25this out and figure

8:26that out. And new new products are being

8:28launched, which you

8:29want to learn. So it's that constant

8:31learning that that gets

8:32me excited.

8:33Right? Yeah, one that one of the things I

8:35always think of when I

8:39think about web development is you need

8:40enough to be able to

8:41reverse engineer what you find, right? That

8:44's that sort of that

8:45sort of the middle ground of how much

8:46knowledge you need. As soon

8:47as you know enough to right click inspect

8:50and understand

8:50what's going on on a web page. Yeah, that's

8:52enough. Yeah, you

8:54can get you can get started from there.

8:57Because then at least you

8:57know what terms to look for what

8:59technologies to invest in. And

9:02you can generally follow the discourse and

9:05the discussions

9:06around what's latest and greatest, you know

9:08, yeah, what's

9:09tableau doing with these languages and so

9:11on. So I think

9:12that's the sort of the high level overview

9:15you gave there is

9:16actually a pretty important grounding for a

9:18lot of people,

9:19especially if they want to get into this. I

9:21did a video on

9:21learning tableau. And the dev space is

9:23actually probably the

9:24least looked at part because people

9:26perceive it to be like

9:28this really big challenge. And it is Yeah,

9:30but I also say it's

9:31probably has the biggest reward because you

9:34get to enhance

9:34tableau well beyond what it can do today,

9:37you get to build new

9:38parts of tableau that don't exist. And that

9:40's probably the

9:40most exciting thing, right? Yeah, I would I

9:42would also

9:43suggest is when you start out with this is

9:45first figure out

9:47what you enjoy, and then build on top of it

9:49, you can't force

9:50yourself to learn something that actually

9:53you can enjoy working

9:54with. Also, within the data dev space,

9:57there's quite a lot of

9:58API's we'll talk about in a bit. But you

10:01have, for example, for

10:03some of them, you need Python as the

10:05programming language. But

10:06for other ones, it's like the web

10:07development like JavaScript,

10:09and you can even write C sharp when you use

10:12like one of the

10:13connector SDKs, right? Right. There is no

10:16one unless there's

10:17like a Superman that knows all of those

10:20languages. So I would

10:22really hone into one specific thing. And

10:24for me, it was really

10:25get good at JavaScript. Because with

10:28JavaScript, I can write

10:29stuff in the front end in the back end, I

10:31can communicate with

10:32databases. Lots of things on the internet,

10:35everything is written

10:36in JavaScript, it is a tool of a

10:38programming language that will

10:40not go away, it will only become bigger on

10:42the internet. Yeah.

10:43And then we have adoptions to that, like

10:45like TypeScript,

10:46which is like a superset of JavaScript. And

10:49you slowly learn

10:50all of those tools as well when when you

10:51get interested in it.

10:53Yeah, yeah.

10:54I'm smiling because the week you decided to

10:56take on TypeScript,

10:57all I kept on getting is signal messages

10:59going, this is

11:00incredible. How have I never done this

11:02before?

11:02Yeah. For people that that are a little bit

11:06further in the

11:07JavaScript journey and haven't looked at

11:09TypeScript. And go and

11:12learn TypeScript. The other tool that I

11:15actually got access to

11:17last week, which we're not going to do any

11:19branding, but if you

11:21sign up for like GitHub copilot, GitHub cop

11:25ilot is like an AI

11:26assistant for programming. And it learns

11:30from your code and

11:32code written by 1000s of other developers.

11:35And it's amazing.

11:36It's like integrates nicely with loads of

11:38code editors and with

11:40TypeScript as well. And it will really it's

11:43a little bit like

11:45have you ever written a G in Gmail and

11:47email, right? So if

11:49you write an email, email, and it says nice

11:51to do an auto

11:52completes to nice to meet you, for example,

11:54yeah, but here, you

11:56can write comments and say like, I want to

11:58write a function that

12:00adds two numbers together. And you write

12:02that as a comment, you

12:03hit enter or tab and create that function

12:06for you very, like very

12:08basic functions, but it can get your your

12:11coding a lot faster.

12:13But yeah, I don't want to deviate and into

12:15it.

12:15Yeah, we've got plenty of time to come into

12:18it. So you've

12:20mentioned this phrase data dev several time

12:22, what is a tableau

12:23data dev? So they give us a high level

12:25overview of what the

12:27program is, how do you become one? How do

12:29you get started?

12:30Yeah, that's that's a very good point. So a

12:32tableau data dev is

12:33someone who uses tableaus API's to extend

12:37and integrate the

12:38platform into two other products. Now a

12:42tableau data dev

12:43is anyone who is interested in using the

12:46API's even if it's

12:48like using reading about it learning about

12:50it. There's no

12:51like prerequisites for you to like become a

12:54data dev. There is

12:55a way for you to enter tableaus and data

12:58dev program and the

13:00developer platform basically, it's free to

13:02join. So we'll put

13:03some links in the description so people can

13:07like sign up for

13:08free. And yeah, that's basically for you a

13:12playground and you can

13:14basically get in touch with other tableau

13:17data devs, talk

13:18about the product, learn about the product

13:20as well.

13:21Nice, nice. And so I think I think I'm, I'm

13:26, if I'm sort of

13:28relating to that I'm technically a data dev

13:30because I actually

13:31use the sandbox environments that you get

13:33as part of the data

13:34dev program to demo pretty much all the

13:37online features, the

13:38tableau online features that are on the

13:40channel. So it's also

13:42really good space to learn broadly about

13:44the platform

13:45because the developer side of tableau is

13:48very heavily

13:49invested in enabling people to learn the

13:52platform as much as it

13:53is about learning tableau, desktop or

13:55server, whatever it

13:56is, right. It's sort of been designed to

13:58kind of get

13:59everyone in.

13:59Yeah, so there's mainly three parts to it.

14:03The first part is

14:04that you get that free tableau online

14:07sandbox, which is always

14:10or typically one version ahead of the main

14:14tableau online

14:15production one. So you're always looking at

14:18new features. The

14:19other element is that you get access to

14:22slack. So tableau has

14:24created a slack channel, like many kind of

14:27tools out there

14:28that creating this community through slack

14:30where you can

14:31communicate through different channels

14:32about the various APIs,

14:34you can get help, you can showcase stuff.

14:36And then the

14:38last part is you're being invited to

14:41monthly sprint demos,

14:42where you can actually get a peek at some

14:46of the new

14:47integrations or new API's. And they'll ask

14:49for feedback as

14:50well. So if you're interested in, say,

14:53tableau's Python

14:54integration, there's quite often there's

14:56like new features coming

14:58out. So in sprint demos, you can then see

14:59what's coming. And then

15:01you can get some feedback.

15:03Nice, nice. And so this all feeds into

15:05probably the next

15:07most obvious question, which is, like, how

15:09many API's are there?

15:10What do they do? And so what what can

15:12people do?

15:13Yeah, excellent question. We get those a

15:16lot when when we talk

15:17even to customers, right about it, right?

15:20Exactly. I always put

15:21them into into three categories. So we have

15:25our connect, we have

15:27integrate, and we have automate, connect,

15:30integrate, automate,

15:31that's kind of the buckets that you think

15:33about, then you think

15:34about, hey, what's the thing that I want to

15:36do in tableau

15:37within connect, it's like, hey, I have this

15:41data source, but

15:42it's not one of the out of the box data

15:44sources. So there's

15:46three options. Basically, you can create

15:48the connector SDK,

15:50which is a fairly new API. It's, it's also

15:54part of the tableau

15:56exchange. So you can put your connector on

15:59the tableau

16:00exchange, and then anyone can kind of use

16:01these. And they

16:02almost become native connections in tableau

16:04. So if you open up

16:05tableau desktop, or in tableau web offering

16:08, you can see there's

16:09almost as native connections, and they use

16:11ODBC and JDBC

16:12connections, right, that's a connector SDK,

16:15then we have the

16:16hyper API, which allows you to program

16:19matically create reads

16:21updates and delete rows in a hyperfile. So

16:24you can create

16:25hyper files to a Python script or Java if

16:29you if you write

16:30Java, but and it's Java the same as

16:34JavaScript. Yeah, it's the

16:35it's the same as as a as a car is to carpet

16:38.

16:38Sorry, that's an ongoing joke between me

16:43and Andre. We always

16:45we always we always take a moment to have

16:46that. Yeah.

16:48Yeah, that's it. If you if you had someone

16:51's interest in those

16:53types of jokes that the internet is full of

16:55them like loads of

16:56memes about Java. Yeah, the backstory we

17:00want to dive into

17:02in this podcast of in this video.

17:04It's podcast.

17:06Yeah, so yeah, the connector we were

17:09thinking about the

17:11connector SDK, the hyper API. And then we

17:14also have the web

17:16data connector. The web data connector is

17:18very much for like

17:20APIs like restful APIs that return XML or

17:23JSON to you. And

17:25the web data connector is one of the kind

17:27of the oldest of those

17:27three. But very soon there will be some

17:30updates to that one,

17:31which is really interesting. That's connect

17:35, then we go to

17:36integrate. And that's really putting Table

17:40au into other

17:41applications or putting other applications

17:44in Tableau. So how

17:46that works is like putting Tableau and

17:47other applications

17:48is embedding. So it's the embedded embed

17:51ding API. So you

17:52can put it in a website in like CMS or

17:55something like WordPress,

17:58for example, we've seen companies now also

18:00putting

18:01Tableau in like Notion or in those kind of

18:04wiki pages.

18:05Because Tableau is being consumed and dash

18:08boards are

18:08being consumed in a lot of different places

18:11. So it's the

18:12embedding one and then we have the

18:14dashboard extensions, which

18:15I mentioned earlier is one of the first

18:17APIs I work with. And

18:18that allows you to create a little web

18:20applications inside

18:21a Tableau. So it seems for example, one of

18:24our colleagues

18:25Craig has built like the export all

18:26extension, which allows you

18:28to generate Excel files from within a

18:30dashboard. And we've

18:32seen loads of like innovations in terms of

18:34like new chart types

18:35as well. And then yeah, those are the two

18:39major ones. And then

18:41if we think about automating, we are

18:43talking about Tableau's rest

18:45the restful API, and the webhooks and the

18:49rest API allows

18:51you to programmatically interact with the

18:54elements on Tableau

18:55online and server like creating users and

18:57updating users,

18:58deleting workbooks, uploading workbooks,

19:00all of those things.

19:01And the last one, the webhooks then is for

19:04listening to events

19:06in Tableau server or Tableau online. So

19:08right, someone

19:09publishes a new workbook, or a data source

19:12doesn't refresh,

19:14there's been a problem, you can act on

19:16those. So you can put a

19:18message into Slack, you can add it to to do

19:21list or loads of

19:22things. I've done a few sessions on the

19:25Tableau conference last

19:27year as well about that. Someone's

19:29interested, we'll put

19:31those links as well. And

19:32yeah, we'll definitely put all those links.

19:34There's a tablet

19:35have a nice page that actually summarizes

19:37all the API's as

19:38well. So we'll put those all in the

19:40description. So be sure to

19:41check it out. But I think that's a really

19:43good way to add a

19:44high level break them down, you know,

19:46connect, integrate and

19:47automate. And one of the things about embed

19:49ding that I think

19:50always catches me out is I always think of

19:53embedding as the

19:54traditional embedding of a web page, I go

19:57get a iframe and you

19:58put it in another web page, right. But

20:00actually embedding

20:01goes well beyond that it can also be taking

20:04bits of

20:05information like a metric, which is just

20:08showing you the

20:09performance of a particular thing. Or you

20:12can also embed the

20:12entire authoring experience inside of

20:15another application.

20:17So people can build visualizations inside

20:19of their

20:20own application using tablet to do that,

20:22right?

20:22Yeah, exactly. It's because that what we

20:25see in the wider data

20:26ecosystem and the wider kind of data

20:29visualization space is that

20:31it is not only dashboards people want to

20:33look at nowadays, like

20:34not everyone takes a decision based off

20:37something that happens

20:38after you've done 20 filters, right?

20:41Actually, people want to

20:43go to data quickly, like metrics, for

20:45example, like

20:46metrics has been it hasn't had as much

20:48attention from the

20:50community as I think it should have,

20:52because metrics are really

20:54things like how many users have signed up

20:56to the platform, or

20:57right, it's like those really like key

21:00metrics that a company

21:01looks at, like what's our revenue? Yeah,

21:03what's our churn

21:04rate, for example, those elements are like,

21:07really

21:07important, and you don't want to hide those

21:10in one of your

21:11dashboards. No, they need to be a metric.

21:13And now with the

21:14ability to embed those as well, you can put

21:16them in custom

21:17portals, you can put them in your wiki

21:19pages, and you can put

21:20them wherever your user is. And that's the

21:23main thing about

21:24embedding is like, put tableau where users

21:27are, don't send your

21:28users to tableau. That's kind of the thing,

21:30right? Right. Tableau

21:31Online, Tableau Server, great products, but

21:34not everyone

21:35actually needs to navigate that interface.

21:37They just want

21:38answers.

21:39Right. Just want answers. Yeah. The

21:42majority of users who use

21:43Tableau, the product, are not building in

21:46the products, right?

21:47They are consuming the analysis. It's

21:49typically, you know, one

21:51developer to multiple analysts who are

21:53looking at that data and

21:55making decisions from that. So that's a

21:57pretty, pretty good

21:58overview. So let's, let's get into some of

22:00the new things that

22:01have that have sort of come out then,

22:02because it's probably

22:03worth, let's do a rundown of them. And then

22:05we'll go through

22:06them in detail. And at this point, we'll

22:08also do some screen

22:09sharing stuff like that. So the first one,

22:10I'm looking at my

22:11notes here with first one is connected apps

22:14. Second one is

22:15the embedding API v3. And the last one is

22:17embedding metrics.

22:19So let's start with connected apps. I know

22:22literally nothing

22:24about this. So explain it to me like I'm an

22:26idiot. Like what is

22:27what is the big deal with this? Why is it a

22:29good thing? What is

22:30it going to make easier? And as like, as an

22:33everyday user, who

22:34won't ever build anything with this? What

22:36will I see? What will

22:37I then? Yeah, of course. So um, there is a

22:40little bit of history

22:41to this. But there's also a little bit of

22:44influence from

22:45Salesforce into this tablet has been

22:48acquired by Salesforce like

22:50two and a half years ago now. I can't talk

22:52about the time but

22:53and Salesforce has always had these little

22:56things called

22:57apps. And they see everything as an app.

23:01And then users can

23:02basically like a Lego system, they can put

23:05those apps together

23:06and build their own kind of product. So

23:07they can pick and

23:08choose what they want and put it together.

23:10And Tableau is moving

23:11towards this as well. And they created this

23:13first iteration,

23:14which is called connected apps. And

23:17connected apps are currently

23:18what they are doing is they're a way for

23:22you to authenticate to

23:27embedded Tableau content. So I metrics, a

23:30dashboard, a sheet,

23:32chart, whatever you you want your users to

23:35interact with, you

23:37can authenticate. So it's an easier way of

23:40doing that. And

23:41there was a real need for this because we

23:44see a huge shift of

23:48users moving to Tableau online as a SaaS

23:51product. There's more

23:53and more companies that don't want to host

23:56Tableau server

23:57themselves, or any product, right? It's not

23:59necessarily that

24:00they don't want to host Tableau service,

24:01any product, they just

24:02want to get up and running with it. They

24:04want to put their

24:04credit card in and get started. We've seen

24:06that with companies

24:07such as Snowflake, Databricks, DBT, all of

24:10them, AWS, all of

24:12them are like really championing this SaaS

24:15approach. And so that's

24:16what we're seeing with Tableau is like a

24:18huge shift towards

24:20Tableau online. And they had to come up

24:22with a way to make

24:23embedding work for Tableau online as well.

24:26Because

24:26traditionally with Tableau server, how you

24:29did embedding of

24:31a web page into a portal and you did the

24:33single sign on approach.

24:35So someone signs into a portal, and it

24:37automatically

24:38authenticates people to a dashboard. You

24:42typically did that

24:43with trusted authentication. Currently, you

24:46still need to use

24:47trusted authentication for Tableau server

24:50until the new

24:50version comes out, which hopefully is like

24:52within days or

24:53hours of this recording. We don't know if

24:57you watch this in

24:59the future, then yeah,

25:00it's definitely come out. Most people will

25:02watch this.

25:03So yeah, now you can actually get it very

25:06good. And when you

25:08turn it on, there you go. And yeah, so

25:12trusted authentication

25:13actually worked with a concept of putting

25:17IP addresses on an

25:19allow list. I don't use the word I don't

25:21like using the word

25:23whitelist. That's not a great word for

25:25identifying IP

25:26addresses. But yeah, they put them on an

25:29allow list. However,

25:31with Tableau online, because it's shared

25:33resource on AWS, you

25:34can't say, hey, this particular IP address

25:37is allowed to

25:38communicate with Tableau online, because

25:39there's so many users

25:40using it. It's not very secure. So they

25:44move to a new

25:45authentication model using JOTS. They're

25:49actually called JSON web

25:51tokens. This is an industry standard that

25:54loads companies

25:55like stripe and all of those they are using

25:58that for

25:59authentication. Yeah, that really allows

26:03you to make it a

26:05lot easier to integrate Tableau online in

26:08various portals or

26:10website and create that single sign on

26:12experience. So it's,

26:13it's very much focused on the kind of the

26:17yeah, making it

26:19easier to authenticate.

26:20Right. So like the the net effect should be

26:24if it's easy to

26:25authenticate, if it's easy to build in,

26:28connect Tableau to

26:29other tools, we should start to see a an

26:32increased number of

26:33tools taking advantage of this because

26:36previously, maybe the

26:37burden of work was too high for development

26:39to consider putting

26:40time aside to do this. But in essence, now

26:43that Barry's maybe

26:44been brought down or more to the point, it

26:46's been standardized to

26:48a standard that web developers are already

26:50familiar with, and

26:50therefore should just be sort of bread and

26:53butter to integrate

26:54these two things together.

26:54Yeah, exactly. And there's a few things

26:57related to these

26:58connected apps is that you, you can create

27:01as many connected

27:03apps as you want on your Tableau online

27:05sites or your Tableau

27:06server. And those connected apps, you can

27:10scope either to

27:11projects or specific sites, and even to

27:14specific domain names.

27:16So what that allows you to do is, because

27:18traditionally, what

27:20happened with trusted authentication, you

27:23expose your

27:24whole Tableau server to this particular IP

27:26address into this

27:27portal, right? Even though you could say

27:30like, hey, only via

27:31the API is only exposed this dashboard. But

27:34still, still,

27:35there is this kind of exposure of the whole

27:37server. But now you

27:38can actually limit this and say like, hey,

27:40for this connected

27:41app, we only want example.com portal to, to

27:47actually accept

27:49requests from so you can scope it to

27:51domains. And soon you can

27:52even put the scope in the JWT token, which

27:57as I said, is an

27:58industry standard. So you can say, for

28:00example, hey, this

28:01user when they request the JWT token, and

28:04job token, sorry,

28:05limits the scope to say view the dashboard,

28:08other ones can filter

28:10the dashboard, other can other ones can

28:12write the web offering

28:13those types of things. And currently, it's

28:15not in there yet

28:16in version three, but it will move to like

28:18version 3.1 or

28:203.2.

28:20Yeah, right. This is really good, because I

28:23think of loads

28:24of use cases where embedding has come up

28:27and the company wants to

28:28give external people one level of access,

28:31internal people who

28:33are seeing another level of access, and

28:35then the finance

28:36team, you know, God level access to see

28:37everything so they can,

28:38you know, make decisions, right? This will

28:41allow you to do that

28:42in a much more confident way, I guess,

28:45because the worrying

28:47thing with those ones is always testing

28:49security and trying to

28:50think of every sort of eventual eventuality

28:51. But there was

28:52always a little quote, exactly, yeah, if

28:54the user did x, y, and

28:55z, you can't really stop them doing y. But

28:58now this sounds like

28:59an even more solid

29:00exactly. It's that security aspect. But it

29:03's also almost

29:04moving Tableau Online on par with Tableau

29:07Server in terms of

29:08the embeds offering in terms of like the

29:10technology, right? That's

29:12like the licensing is still different. But

29:15the the approach

29:16to to actually the authentication is almost

29:23similar

29:23now. Right. And, for example, what you

29:25could do, as you were

29:26mentioning by the three different tiers of

29:29people

29:31logging in, that that can all live on the

29:34same Tableau Online

29:35site, because you as the as the Tableau on

29:37site admin don't have

29:38to think about scaling resources, think

29:41about your

29:42server, because you're not actually hosting

29:44that Tableau

29:44is hosting for you. So you can think about,

29:47hey, actually

29:48implementing the product and getting value

29:50from the product

29:50rather than think about like that.

29:52That's really good. It's really good. So

29:55that's super

29:56interesting. I'd be I'd be keen to sort of

29:58see Tableau showcase

29:59some of these solutions. I'm assuming that

30:01's what conference

30:02is for. We'll come back to conference in a

30:03second because I

30:04think you've got some news to share on that

30:06later. But yeah,

30:08like that's, that's, that sounds like a

30:10really sort of good

30:11feature. And let's, let's, let's think

30:14about the next one. The

30:16embedding API v3. Now, my context here is

30:20only the first

30:21time I ever did embedding. I only did it in

30:24HTML and

30:24JavaScript. I was literally, you know, the

30:26classic HTML and

30:27everyone does where you literally type in

30:29HTML, you get

30:30the embed code, you copy and paste it in

30:32and you go, well,

30:33I've embedded it. And I used to remember

30:35the JavaScript call

30:37you'd made there was API version two. And

30:39it's been version two

30:40for a really long while. So what's big

30:43about version three?

30:44And sort of why does it justify a new

30:46version? Why is it not 2.1

30:48or 2.1?

30:49Yeah, exactly. So it's version three,

30:51because they rewritten it

30:52from the ground up. So they've literally

30:55started with zero, I

30:56think they just opened a new file on the

30:58computer. Like, hey,

31:00new JavaScript, new.js. I'm not entirely

31:04sure if they started

31:05all the way from scratch. I've never I'm

31:07not a library

31:08maintainer. So I don't know how to write an

31:10actual JavaScript

31:11library. But

31:12if it's if it's anything like how we name

31:14Tableau files, it's

31:16really new version 25. Yeah, exactly. So

31:20what they move to

31:20with embedding API version three, I've done

31:23two videos on

31:24that now, I think. But the main the main

31:27thing is that they move

31:29to using web components. There is a huge

31:32discussion in the web

31:33development space of web, if web components

31:36are good at that, but

31:37Tableau has moved to them. It is more

31:40modern. That's the main

31:41thing. It's more modern, it's easy to

31:43implement. And for the

31:44development developers at Tableau, it's

31:47easy to iterate on

31:48as well. So what are web components? If you

31:51go to a

31:52website, and you see a big title on a

31:55website, it's called an h1,

31:57it's the biggest title. And you have, for

31:59example, an image,

32:00which has an image tag, IMG as a tag. And

32:03that's how you write

32:04HTML, right with these tags. And exactly a

32:08little bit of content,

32:09like it's almost XML, it's a superset of

32:11XML. And, and, and

32:14what Tableau has done is now created a web

32:16component called

32:17Tableau Vis. And there's also another one

32:20for authoring,

32:21which I don't know exactly what that name

32:22is, because I've not

32:23really used the authoring part. But it's

32:26Tableau Vis, which

32:27means that in the background, Tableau has

32:30written a whole

32:31bunch of code for you, including like some

32:34what they call a

32:35shadow DOM. But I don't really want to go

32:37too deep into like

32:38what web components are. But basically, it

32:41's easier for you,

32:42like rather than having to have that image

32:44tag or the h1, you

32:46also now have Tableau Vis. And then there's

32:48some properties on

32:48that, like this, the SRC, the source, where

32:52is the actual this

32:53that you want to render, you can add some

32:55properties like hide

32:56the toolbar or show the toolbar or set the

32:59height and the width.

33:01And that allows you to like easier

33:05implement version three

33:08into other tools like a WordPress, a Drupal

33:11, a Node

33:12notion, and all of those tools. It's a lot

33:14easier because you're

33:15using just web components, just web

33:18standards. So yeah, they've

33:20also promised us better performance. So

33:23that's another

33:23one. We still have to try out of course.

33:26Also, because it

33:28integrates with connected apps, there's a

33:29property that you can

33:30add called token. And token is then that

33:35the result of that JWT

33:37handshake, so you add that token to the web

33:41component, and then

33:43it renders it on the web page. And yeah,

33:46basically, that's that

33:47makes it a lot more secure, but also makes

33:51it ready for when

33:52when Google Chrome and all the other

33:55browsers fade out third

33:57party cookies. Because third party cookies

34:00have always been

34:02like, really annoying to work with, because

34:05what you do when

34:06you embed Tableau, but this is with a lot

34:08of content on the

34:08internet, you're using iframes. So in the

34:11background, you're

34:11putting an iframe into another page. So you

34:14can have pages

34:15within pages, right? Exactly. Inception.

34:18But in order to

34:20authenticate from a different domain, so if

34:24you go to

34:24example.com, but your dashboard is not on

34:29the same domain name,

34:30it's in Tableau server, Tableau online site

34:33, you often get like

34:34error messages saying, hey, you can't do

34:36this because you're

34:37coming from a different domain. So that's

34:39another one that

34:39they're about working on on fixing through

34:42this new API.

34:43Right. Right. And have you built something?

34:47I think I seem to

34:48recall you've built something to sort of

34:50demo this. It might be

34:51worth just sort of talking a bit about that

34:53. Maybe even share it

34:54if you've got it if you've got it. Yeah, I

34:56mean, share it.

34:57That is a very deliberate plant because I

35:01know Andre is very

35:02humble and he won't talk about his amazing

35:05work. So I'm having

35:06to make sure he does.

35:07Yeah, so we'll put this link as well. So I

35:10just check my screen

35:11and we have the Tableau developer program

35:13here. I'm

35:14already logged in. But you can in the Table

35:16au developer, you

35:17can just sign up, you'll be added to

35:19everything. It's free.

35:20No, no, no pain there. So what I've done

35:24with the the new

35:27embedding API version three is I created

35:30this little break

35:31playground. And we'll put the link in the

35:34chat. And this is

35:37specifically this it says it's for learning

35:41. And it was two way

35:43of learning. It's for the user, but also

35:45for me. So I could

35:47learn I could learn how to actually use

35:49this. Right, right.

35:50And using it was was a lot better than

35:53version two. I

35:55definitely appreciated that one. Good. And

35:57yeah, what this is a

35:59this is a playground. The idea is that you,

36:03you can embed

36:04Tableau server dashboards, Tableau online,

36:06Tableau public,

36:07and then you can play around with some of

36:09the properties

36:10that you can set on on the visualizations

36:13that you're

36:13adding, like the height and the width and

36:15what device you want

36:16to look at. But also one of the things that

36:19I want to give you

36:20is the actual HTML behind what you're doing

36:24, right. So then you

36:25can copy paste that into another tool and

36:28have some kind of

36:29starting point there. Right. So it's like a

36:33book, you get all

36:34the different bits from everywhere, you put

36:36it in, and

36:37then it sort of shows you in reverse, what

36:40it should actually

36:41look like if you were to code it yourself,

36:42right? Indeed, yes.

36:44Yeah, yeah. It's a kind of a really good

36:46starter. I have

36:47links to documentation here as well. If you

36:50want to, if you

36:51want to look at that. But if we hit get

36:52started, what we'll see

36:54is that by default, I'm rendering a

36:56visualization from

36:58Tableau public. And this dashboard is the

37:02one that I also

37:03use if anyone's watching as watched my

37:05embedding analytics

37:07version two course, and it's the one that

37:09we use in that as well.

37:10But what we get here is the actual

37:12dashboard. And then on

37:14the left hand side, here is we're getting

37:17the actual

37:17options. Yeah, we can set in this case,

37:20some of those options

37:22here. Don't want to like, we're not going

37:24to implement connected

37:26apps here, because then I have to hop into

37:27Tableau online and

37:28do all this at JASP. But we can do that at

37:30some other point in

37:31the future. But yeah, this really allows

37:34you to then play

37:35around with this and say like, hey, what I

37:39want is I want to,

37:40for example, in this case, disable the URL

37:43actions, I want

37:44to hide the tabs and hide the toolbar. And

37:47those are just like

37:48HTML kind of interactions that you're doing

37:51now using Tableau

37:52public, so we can't really hide toolbar.

37:54But if we now hop into

37:56here on the top right, it says the HTML

37:59outputs, we're actually

38:00getting that code. So this is the tableau

38:04this thing you

38:04talked about. Exactly. So this is the

38:06actual web component. So

38:08this is new and embedding version three

38:10Tableau dash this.

38:12And here we can then see like, hey, I've

38:14actually hidden the

38:15tabs. And this is like, this is like almost

38:18like responsive to

38:20way communication. So if I click on my

38:22toolbar, again, we can say

38:23like, hey, the toolbar is now moving and

38:26disable URL actions,

38:27we can set that nice. Yeah, similar to the

38:30width and height.

38:30So if we want to say like, hey, actually,

38:32the dashboard we want

38:33to set to like 500 and the width to 500 as

38:37well, the code itself

38:38updates, and you can then easily copy paste

38:41this into another tool

38:42that you're using it for. And then yeah, if

38:45you hop back into

38:46the Tableau dashboard, you'll see it's now

38:48a lot smaller

38:49changes, I changed it to like 500 by 500.

38:52And then you can swap

38:53between the different devices as well. So

38:55you can set that to

38:56mobile, for example. And then it goes to

38:58like the mobile view,

38:59hop into the HTML, and we'll see that

39:02actually, it's now the

39:04device has been set to mobile. So yeah,

39:06that's, that's that if

39:08you want to learn more on how to use this,

39:10there is a bottom

39:12right, I have a video, and gives you

39:15instructions on how to use

39:17this. Nice, nice. That's a good use of loom

39:21. Loom is a tool that

39:22Andre has been using that I actually quite

39:25like, as well. So

39:26it's nice that you've put it in here in the

39:28page, people to want

39:29to say this is a really good tool because

39:32earlier on I was

39:32saying you just need to know enough to

39:34reverse engineer. So

39:35for the majority of people who just want to

39:37get started with

39:38embedding something like Tableau public,

39:40they want to put it in

39:41their blog, they could go grab the Tableau

39:44public link, come

39:45here, put the details set the width and the

39:47height of their

39:48blog, you know, choose the device type so

39:50they can test

39:51what it looks like on a mobile and a

39:53desktop and sort of grab

39:54the what would they grab the Tableau viz

39:58component and the

39:59script as well, right? Yeah. So if they

40:01want the full page, so

40:02you can in theory, just grab this full page

40:04, and you got a

40:05full page, and I could go to say another

40:08tool like a code

40:09sandbox. And if I just sign in into code

40:14sandbox here, code

40:16sandbox is a tool that I use to like

40:18quickly mock up things. I

40:21go to say just need to go to the dashboard,

40:25I don't want to

40:27create a react application, just want to

40:31create a static HTML

40:33file, right? Right. So I can put this in

40:37here, just like copy

40:39pasted it from from that. It's a no, it's a

40:43that way. And so I

40:46like to edit the sandbox. So it's a static.

40:49That's the

40:50template. And now it's actually going to

40:52write my own. There we

40:53go. Yeah, I then put it in there. This

40:55should not work. So

40:59um, yeah, there we go. So now renders that

41:02that on the page

41:03itself.

41:03Amazing. And so just to break this down,

41:07the Tableau viz

41:09component are just like the settings for

41:11the viz, which we

41:12typed in. But the thing that Tableau is

41:15doing is that script

41:17there. So that script is essentially going

41:19and getting

41:19the instructions and Tableau have written

41:21that that can be

41:22used on any web page, right?

41:23Yeah. So this fetches the the embedded

41:27version three API. So

41:30that is basically a whole bunch of code

41:33written by very smart

41:34people at Tableau that make it work

41:37seamlessly. So for this to

41:39to make it work, you bring in this little

41:41web component called

41:42Tableau viz, you set the most important one

41:45is the source of

41:46course, where you want to comment from the

41:47URL of the viz

41:48Yeah. And then here this script itself, it

41:51's using like modern

41:53browsers can also read modules. Don't want

41:56to go too deep into

41:58what modules are, but it makes it easier

42:00for you to grab

42:01certain aspects from this API. If you use

42:04things like react or

42:05spelt or view, you can say I only want to

42:07grab Tableau viz

42:08out of this whole JavaScript file.

42:11Typically that JavaScript

42:12file is a few kilobytes, which doesn't

42:14sound much, but if you

42:16load it on a web page, and it can can

42:18become quite bulky. So

42:20within module, what you can do is you can

42:21actually extract

42:22certain elements and make it make it a

42:25smaller bundle size.

42:27Right. So yeah, that's that's that's the

42:29script component.

42:30That's pretty cool. I've got to say that's

42:32an amazing thing

42:33you've built. And not because you know, I'm

42:35gonna find it

42:36useful, but it's generally a really nice

42:38way of, I think

42:39breaking down the embedding process in a in

42:42a very visual

42:43way, but still doesn't sort of shy away

42:45from the code. Because

42:47sometimes it can be pretty daunting to

42:49sometimes go to

42:50documentation and just see this on the left

42:52hand side. And if

42:53you've never seen it, yes, it's hard to

42:54translate it. But

42:55because you've got a nice interface to it,

42:57you've kind of

42:58done the job of translating that into

43:00something that people can

43:02use. Yeah, then they switch over to the

43:04HTML, and they can draw

43:05the sort of links between the two and yeah,

43:09start there.

43:09One of the things that Tableau has been

43:11working on a lot is

43:12improving improving their documentation.

43:15Right. Oh, what

43:15we've seen with version two is that the

43:18documentation is one

43:20big file, it's one big HTML file. And if

43:23you want to find

43:24what you need to do, you need to search

43:26through that web page,

43:27but you actually need to know what you're

43:29looking for. That

43:30was no like real nice index or table of

43:32contents. So they've

43:33moved now to this kind of way. And we've

43:35seen this with other

43:36API's as well, where they have like, we can

43:38search

43:39documentation, but also, for example, have

43:42really simple,

43:43hey, basic embedding using the web

43:44components, if you click on

43:45that, it actually walks you through on how

43:48to do this.

43:48Right. And this is going back to what we

43:50said at the beginning

43:52about the best way to learn it. For me, it

43:54's it's reading

43:54documentation and seeing examples on how to

43:57do this. And

43:58this is literally like this is this is what

44:00you need in order

44:01to start embedding Tableau public. If you

44:04want to have

44:05online, it's exactly the same Tableau

44:07server exactly the same.

44:08So they make everything like consistent as

44:11well.

44:11Amazing. Yeah, definitely. People go check

44:14this out. This

44:15is really nice thing. Even even something

44:17as basic as putting

44:18Tableau public in your blog, this can help.

44:21And it's a really

44:22good way to start to learn, I think a

44:24really important part of

44:25Tableau. Because I think, as you quite

44:29rightly pointed out earlier

44:30on, it's more important now more than ever

44:33to have analytics be

44:35in the places where people do their work,

44:38rather than

44:38expecting people to come to somewhere like

44:40Tableau server to

44:41do their work. Right? Yeah, yeah. We've

44:43seen that real shift

44:45off. People like using a whole bunch of

44:48tools, right? And

44:50especially since the pandemic, the growth S

44:53aaS products has

44:54become so big. So everyone's in different

44:56tools. So we don't want

44:58to force people to go to another tool, we

45:00actually have this tool

45:01that we just built that we're just using

45:03Tableau, let's put it

45:04in another one. And that's like a really

45:06cool innovation, I

45:07think.

45:08So one last thing to cover is metrics. Now,

45:12I think metrics is

45:13possibly taking advantage of all this new

45:15technology, right. So

45:16to give people some sort of context,

45:19metrics are essentially

45:21created from a visualization, you go to a

45:24chart, and you choose

45:25a particular, let's say, measure or piece

45:27of information you want

45:29to track, you click on that, you create a

45:31new metric, and it

45:32allows you to track that specific metric in

45:35a different

45:36way, essentially creates a sparkline chart

45:39for you that can

45:40do very basic things like track the

45:42difference in time and so on

45:43and so forth. And so it creates this sort

45:45of card, I'll put one

45:46up on the screen in post, it creates this

45:48little card, which

45:49is like a piece of information, think of it

45:51like a, like a,

45:54what's the word, like an information card,

45:56let's just

45:57call it an information card. But Tableau

45:59have now enabled the

46:00ability for this information card to be

46:02embedded in lots of

46:03different places, right?

46:04Yes. Yeah. So the use cases I see, again,

46:08are similar to what

46:10we've been talking about earlier, it's like

46:12actually making

46:13Tableau like almost a lightweight component

46:15of another

46:16tool. So right, someone logs into, say Not

46:20ion, we use Notion

46:21a lot ourselves, right? So if you go into

46:23Notion, you go to

46:24the landing page there, and there's like

46:26this, this little

46:27widget is little metric that says you've

46:30had this much

46:31revenue last week. That's the number that a

46:34lot of people just

46:35want to know. They don't want to use loads

46:38of filters or, or even

46:40think about, if you go to Tableau Public,

46:42there's some

46:43really good visualizations and really

46:45powerful, like the amount

46:47of time people spend like building those

46:49really engaging

46:50content. But if you think about a business

46:53use case, getting to

46:55your answer quickly is very important. So

46:57that's where

46:58metrics come in. And now the ability to put

47:01a metric into any

47:02of those tools with just a few clicks. And

47:06it's using, we're

47:07thinking about early so Tableau is moving

47:09that kind of web

47:10framework also React. React is a web

47:13framework built by, built

47:15and maintained by Facebook, by Meta. It's a

47:19separate team,

47:20don't worry if you don't like Facebook, but

47:22still like React,

47:23it's fine. Then yes, you can, Tableau is

47:26adopting that of all

47:29companies in the world almost using React.

47:32So yeah, that that

47:33with with metrics, they are adopting that.

47:35So it's so much

47:36easier, nicely integrated with the rest of

47:38your web pages and

47:39web content.

47:40And it's, it's a nice, I think of it as

47:45like a way of atomizing

47:47analytics. I think sometimes in analytics,

47:49we get spend too much

47:50energy and time getting really sort of into

47:54the weeds about

47:55what is the absolute answer to a question,

47:57right? Like, what is

47:58that? What is the final answer that the

48:00user needs to know? And

48:01let me just give them that. And actually,

48:04sometimes that that's

48:05not that's not necessarily what sort of

48:07people are looking for.

48:08People just want to know some ad hoc

48:10information, maybe two or

48:12three bits of information. And from that

48:14they themselves will

48:16make the decision about what to do. Yeah,

48:18we sometimes get too

48:19drawn in on, let's just make the decisions

48:21super simple for them.

48:23Let's just show them what they should do.

48:24Yeah, because it's as we we see a lot of a

48:26lot of companies is

48:27that actually driving insights and actions

48:31on the data is so

48:33much more important than the actual tool

48:35that's powering the

48:36visualization, right? Even though we're

48:38talking about

48:38Tableau, like if someone sees a number that

48:41they need to action

48:43on it, and yeah, the place where you action

48:46on things could be,

48:47for example, a slack, or where you message

48:50someone, right? Or

48:51it could be another communication tool like

48:53teams.

48:54So if you have the ability to call a metric

48:57that or quickly

48:59get a number from ask data, for example,

49:02then yeah, that would

49:02be that would be a really cool place.

49:05Cool. So that's, that's quite a lot,

49:08actually, it's incredible

49:09how much in the last sort of, let's say,

49:14year, obviously, this

49:16stuff takes a lot longer. But in the last

49:18year, it seems that all

49:19of these things have been sort of coming

49:21together the connected

49:22apps linking to embedding API v3. And now

49:25we're starting to

49:26see metrics being embedded. And I always

49:28like to do a little bit

49:29of speculation as to you know, where do you

49:31think Tableau is

49:32heading with all this? What do you think

49:33they're trying to

49:34enable? Obviously, Tableau economy is a

49:36pretty big deal, a

49:37pretty important part of that they kind of

49:40want to enable more

49:40people to build stuff for Tableau. But if I

49:43just go back

49:44to sort of the core of the API's, what sort

49:46of your outlook

49:47on what comes next? What do Tableau now

49:50need to improve to

49:51sort of make it a better place to be part?

49:54Yeah, it's, it's like, it that question

49:57really depends on which

49:58day of the week you asked me. Right. I

50:01think like, we're

50:02heading towards a way where Tableau is

50:05going to like

50:07solidly for like real developers, like if

50:10you think

50:11about a connector SDK, like C sharp Java,

50:13then if you think

50:14about other API's like this embedding API,

50:17actually getting

50:18up and running with that one is now a lot

50:20easier. So for me,

50:21it's very much like Tableau has Tableau

50:23originally has lowered

50:25the bar to visualization, and to getting

50:28insights with this like

50:30drag and drop functionality for a lot of

50:32people like data

50:33analysts stuck in Excel, move to Tableau,

50:36and loads of people got

50:37like so much more fun in their job, right.

50:40And that's also

50:41where I hope the API's and integrations go

50:43to that it's,

50:44it's a lot easier for people to learn and

50:48how to put a Tableau

50:50chart, for example, somewhere. And for me,

50:52it's very important

50:53that the integration with other tools and

50:56commerce becomes kind

50:57of almost like a first class citizen. So if

51:00a new tool comes

51:01out, and we can put Tableau in that it's

51:03great, right? The

51:04majority of tools now running on the web in

51:06the web browser

51:07anyway. So that's that. And specifically,

51:11what we see a lot

51:13is that, for example, what we see with

51:15metrics is that more

51:17and more people are interested in it. And

51:20then another thing

51:21that I think they're going to include in

51:23the product very soon

51:24is like, apply like, row level security on

51:28metrics. A big ask

51:30for a lot of people that using metrics,

51:32because right, because

51:33they're quite generic. They're very generic

51:34. Yeah, yeah,

51:35they're not using the actual user context,

51:38who is actually

51:39logging into the metric. But they are gonna

51:42fix that, I

51:43think.

51:44That's going to be an interesting cat and

51:46mouse game.

51:46Because as soon as you have row level

51:48security, the immediate

51:50next thing you'll have is, you know, why

51:53can't I do this as an

51:54author inside of destiny? Why? Just give

51:56this to me as a vis

51:57type, right, so that I can drag and drop it

52:00into my dashboard.

52:01So that's not sort of this thing that's

52:03separate. But as you said

52:04earlier, it's built on a different

52:06technology, which is

52:06why it sort of sits outside of the

52:08dashboard.

52:08Yeah. And the other thing that you're

52:10talking about the Tableau

52:11economy, right? So we've seen that with

52:14Tableau Public, where

52:15there's a hire me button now where you can

52:17actually go and

52:19talk to people, hey, like hire me to do

52:20this particular piece

52:22of work, especially really good for freel

52:24ancers and people that

52:25typically use platforms like Fiverr or Up

52:27work or something.

52:28But we see what a lot of Tableau partners,

52:32including the partner

52:33that we work for is, they can put that

52:35content on Tableau's

52:37exchange. And those can be accelerators,

52:39dashboard, they

52:40can be extensions, dashboard extensions,

52:43and also connectors.

52:44And in the future, we'll see some other

52:46content on that

52:47probably as well. So that means that the

52:49community can also help

52:51move the product roadmap forward. Because

52:55we always hope

52:56that, hey, we build some kind of

52:58integration as an extension.

53:00Hopefully, the Tableau developers pick up

53:03on that, and

53:04then integrate it into like the native

53:06product by that.

53:09And I'm also keen to see what what use

53:11cases bubble up to the

53:13top when they open these doors, right?

53:15There's, you know,

53:16there's lots of opportunity for people who

53:19've been trying on

53:20needing certain things to work in Tableau,

53:22suddenly to go in

53:23and build those things. And there'll be a

53:25bit of a wild wild

53:26Western initially, it's a bit like the

53:27first time the app

53:28store came about those first few days,

53:30first few months were

53:31rough, because people were just throwing

53:33everything to see what

53:34would stick. But after two to three years,

53:36it really started

53:38to become a refined place where there was

53:39an understanding of

53:41what was good and what was bad. And, and

53:43that will also start to

53:45get shared amongst partners and other

53:47people in the community.

53:49And hopefully people as well. I hope it's

53:50not just for partners.

53:51I hope people get to come to independent

53:54developers, people

53:56like yourself, right? Like, be able to

53:58submit stuff to the

53:59Extension Gallery and still also get some

54:01interesting Yeah,

54:02especially if they introduce things like

54:05and I don't know

54:06if this is on the roadmap, because I'm not

54:07chatting to that

54:08team, like, think about reviews, or you're

54:11thinking about kind of

54:13stars, so you can get like one star or five

54:16stars, like a

54:18rating system or labels that like, hey,

54:20this has been built

54:21by a data death ambassador. Yeah, this has

54:23been built by one

54:24of the visionaries or one of the other

54:25people in the community

54:27and yeah, and find a way to reach out to

54:29them as well. So I

54:30think that that's quite exciting.

54:32And even if it's been deployed, not who it

54:34's been deployed to,

54:36because that's normally confidential

54:37information, but

54:38just being like, you know, this is being

54:40used at 20 enterprise

54:41accounts, 20 medium to large businesses and

54:45tensible

54:46businesses, something like that to say, Oh,

54:48okay, this is this

54:49is a really trusted app. It's being used at

54:51lots of different

54:52scales. And sometimes that can come from

54:55Tableau. But it's not

54:57like the app store where downloads is

54:59enough, right? You

55:00kind of need some different measure of

55:03trust, because one

55:04person can install it in the biggest

55:06deployment base of

55:07Tableau. And it can be an absolute dumpster

55:10fire. But you

55:12know, smallest that might be great and not

55:14get noticed.

55:15What's over? So this has been amazing. It's

55:18probably a good

55:19time to ask people, how can they find out

55:21more about what you do?

55:23What's your website? What's your channel?

55:25Show your screen? Tell

55:27us a bit more about what where all these

55:28things are.

55:29Yeah, of course. Let me do share my screen.

55:33I'm telling Andre to share screen here

55:34because his website

55:35is actually beautiful. I'm always jealous.

55:37The A he built

55:38his own website, and B is really good.

55:41Again,

55:42beginning about how to learn like real life

55:48projects are the

55:49best way to learn. Building this website as

55:52a project has has

55:53given me so much to learn about like, right

55:56. And I tried to keep

55:58it as minimalistic and like only use like

56:00two or three colors.

56:02It's my original website had like dark mode

56:04enabled, which if

56:06you're a developer, dark mode was fun, but

56:08it's not easy to

56:09implement. It's not fun anymore. Yeah, what

56:13happens like this,

56:14this kind of landing page where if you want

56:16to learn more about

56:17me, there's a learn more about me page

56:19actually called the

56:20page. Yeah, so I think this is like the

56:25kind of the information

56:27about me. But if you want to learn more

56:29about the different

56:31courses that I built, I've built a few

56:33courses on YouTube as

56:34well. And these will link to my channel.

56:36And for example, these

56:38are free. I always I always I always

56:40highlight to people when

56:41when, well, at least when Andre and I are

56:43talking about courses,

56:45we're talking about just go to YouTube and

56:47start watching them.

56:48It's not a paid course. And people have

56:50always asked, do you

56:52do paid courses? But this is this is the

56:54best knowledge we

56:55can share. And this is where we put it.

56:57Yeah. So this is the one

56:58that I should update because we're not

56:59talking about

57:00version three. And this is version two. But

57:02to be honest,

57:02it will still teach you loads of elements

57:04of embedding tablet,

57:05like a nine or 10 video course. You can

57:10watch it in about two

57:12hours, I think. But there's some hands on

57:14sessions as well.

57:15Definitely there's links to my to my

57:17YouTube page, you can find

57:19all of my details actually on the front

57:20page, you want to go

57:21to my YouTube here. And then I've created a

57:25whole bunch of

57:26projects like, as I said, about five years

57:29ago, I started

57:30developing on top of Tableau. What I've

57:32done is I've created

57:33like this is I don't know, like 15 or 16

57:36different projects that

57:37I've been working on, including things like

57:41a Tableau public web

57:43data connector, which is a way to bring

57:45your Tableau public

57:46data into Tableau without having to write a

57:49custom code. It's a

57:51web data connector, you plug it in, you put

57:53your username down,

57:54you get the information. So yeah, there's

57:57loads of stuff

57:57here. Again, as you said, this is all free.

58:00So you can get it

58:01whatever you want. Please reach out to

58:03anyone has any questions

58:05about this. Happy to.

58:06And it's on GitHub. So yes, I think

58:09majority of us on GitHub.

58:10So people can open it up reverse engineer

58:13and look at what you've

58:14done to kind of get these.

58:15Yeah, yeah, the majority of these things. I

58:17've put like

58:18loads of like links to GitHub. So here we

58:21can see that keep it

58:22fresh extension that I built, which keeps

58:24your dashboard

58:26refreshed on the timer. You can grab the

58:28whole code for that. So

58:30you can even self hosted. I've actually in

58:33the process of

58:34moving this to Docker container so you can

58:37even host a Docker

58:38container yourself. Yeah, all of this is

58:40free for you to grab and

58:42to learn from.

58:43Amazing, amazing. Thank you so much. This

58:47has been I've learned

58:49a ton of stuff. And it's been absolutely

58:52incredible. And I

58:53thought I knew generally, the landscape of

58:56tablet, I'd like to

58:57think of myself as someone who's in tune

58:59with what tablet is

59:00doing. But actually, I think the context

59:02you brought today has

59:03been super valuable. So to anyone watching,

59:06people who

59:07always make it this far into video, these

59:09are the loyal

59:09people, these are the people that should

59:11absolutely if you've

59:12made it this far, number one, go follow

59:14Andre and all the

59:15platforms, Twitter, YouTube, go to his

59:18website, watch his

59:19courses. And after you've done that, go to

59:22the tablet website,

59:23sign up to the data dev program, and check

59:26that out. And last but

59:27not least, you're doing a special event

59:30with Salesforce,

59:32right? Yes. So on April 27, and 28, it is

59:37in San Francisco, but

59:39you can also attend this virtually. I am

59:43part of the

59:46tableau keynote at Trailblazer DX, which is

59:50a Salesforce

59:51developer conference. And this Salesforce

59:55developer conference

59:56is not only Tableau, it's also MuleSoft and

60:00Slack and Salesforce

60:01Slack has 5000 people coming. And so you

60:04can learn all about

60:06different API's in the in the Salesforce

60:09ecosystem. And I'll

60:11be like, hosting the Tableau keynote

60:13together with France

60:15one, who's the Tableau product officer at

60:19Tableau, and loads of

60:21Tableau product managers as well. And we'll

60:23show loads of

60:24cool stuff that you can do with the Tableau

60:27API's.

60:27It's fantastic. So basically, you're going

60:30to be, you know,

60:31leading the charge on behalf of Tableau

60:33essentially, at the

60:35Trailblazer DX.

60:36Yeah, I'm definitely looking forward to

60:37that.

60:37Awesome. And it's in San Francisco, it's

60:40not a bad place

60:42to be that type of year either. So pretty

60:44good, pretty good. I'm

60:45looking forward to that session. I'll, I'll

60:48also put a link to

60:48the session itself, but also how to find

60:51out more about

60:52Trailblazer DX and watch it virtually or in

60:55person, whatever

60:56you want to do. I might while you're doing

60:58it live, I might do

60:59a live reaction or something like that. I

61:02'll sort of enjoy

61:05the comfort of not being at the conference

61:07and being grateful

61:08just this smack talk in the background. And

61:11rei never

61:12The good thing is that it's around 12 1230

61:18in San Francisco

61:20time. So it's in the evening, it's in the

61:21evening and you

61:22guys are amazing, amazing, amazing. So it's

61:25easy to sort of

61:26just relax and hopefully you can Chromecast

61:28or something. Yeah.

61:30Good stuff. Well, Andrei, thank you so much

61:33. Thanks for coming

61:34on to the channel and doing this stuff. It

61:36's we've had nearly an

61:37hour now. So it's been absolutely fantastic

61:40. And yet go

61:41follow Andrei. I won't ask you to subscribe

61:43to me. It's I think

61:44it's really important to go look at Andrei

61:46's channel. And yeah,

61:48find out more of the content that he's sort

61:50of putting out

61:50more consistently as well. And check out

61:52his blog as well. And

61:53stay tuned for more. I'm sure it probably

61:55be I'll probably have

61:57you back here in six months. Going, you

61:59know, explain all

62:00these extensions, how are they doing what

62:01they're doing? Yeah.

62:04We should do some extension tear down. Yeah

62:07. Let's not like

62:09let's celebrate all the all the API's.

62:12Right. Exactly. Yeah,

62:14thanks. Thanks for having me. Absolutely.

62:16Pleasure. Absolute

62:18pleasure. Thanks for watching. And yeah, we

62:20'll catch you the

62:21next one. Take it easy.

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