https://just-tim.com/ New Databricks posts from just-tim. en-gb https://just-tim.com/posts/meet-thoughtspot-analytics-platform-with-ceo-ketan-karkhanis--svp-francois-lopitaux https://just-tim.com/posts/meet-thoughtspot-analytics-platform-with-ceo-ketan-karkhanis--svp-francois-lopitaux Tue, 05 May 2026 09:40:41 GMT ThoughtSpot's CEO and product lead walk me through a platform that's pivoted from search-driven BI to agentic analytics, where Spotter builds the model, the dashboards and the answers for you. https://just-tim.com/posts/meet-hex-an-ai-powered-analytics-platform-with-notebooks-apps-and-more-featuring-rachel-herrera https://just-tim.com/posts/meet-hex-an-ai-powered-analytics-platform-with-notebooks-apps-and-more-featuring-rachel-herrera Mon, 04 May 2026 13:24:43 GMT Hex wants to be the best tool for data work in general, not the best dashboard tool, so you switch cells instead of switching tabs. https://just-tim.com/posts/andy-cotgreave--a-conversation-on-dashboards-and-the-future-of-bi https://just-tim.com/posts/andy-cotgreave--a-conversation-on-dashboards-and-the-future-of-bi Mon, 15 Dec 2025 15:28:21 GMT Andy Cotgreave and I argue that charging people for curiosity is antithetical to everything good BI was built on. https://just-tim.com/posts/tableau-20253-release-whats-new-in-pulse-desktop-public-and-more https://just-tim.com/posts/tableau-20253-release-whats-new-in-pulse-desktop-public-and-more Wed, 22 Oct 2025 09:53:48 GMT There are no big hitters in 2025.3, but it's packed with the small quality-of-life updates that quietly justify Tableau's premium price. https://just-tim.com/posts/behind-the-scenes-during-the-keynote-tc25-tableau-salesforce https://just-tim.com/posts/behind-the-scenes-during-the-keynote-tc25-tableau-salesforce Wed, 16 Apr 2025 14:38:34 GMT A peek behind the scenes during the TC25 keynote as the new Tableau workspace pulls structured and unstructured data together. https://just-tim.com/posts/tableau-2025-1-features-release-overview-see-timestamps https://just-tim.com/posts/tableau-2025-1-features-release-overview-see-timestamps Mon, 27 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT Tableau 2025.1 is here, and a lot of it is already live as a rolling release, so let's go through every feature and the ones I'm still cautious about. https://just-tim.com/posts/s4-e2-byte-nfts-snowflake-and-aggregators https://just-tim.com/posts/s4-e2-byte-nfts-snowflake-and-aggregators Mon, 22 Apr 2024 21:38:24 GMT NFTs, Snowflake and cloud aggregators — three trends that look like hype until you work out what they're actually for.