Animated transition enhancements

0:00Hey, it's Tim here. And in this video, I'm

0:04going to be talking about enhancements to

0:06animations in Tableau 2020.3. Now, one of

0:09the things they've been doing is to try and

0:10improve the performance. And so it's

0:12actually going to work a little bit better

0:14on server

0:14and on online. I can't say that. Server and

0:18online. And also in terms of the features,

0:21they've also improved the way it behaves

0:23specifically with step lines. But I'm

0:24actually not seeing

0:25that behavior, probably because I'm still

0:27using the pre-release version myself. But

0:30I'm going to do this here in the web window

0:31so you can see how the performance is on an

0:34actual server. Okay, so I'm going to go

0:36ahead to Superstore sales data source that

0:38I've

0:39got on my Tableau server instance here. And

0:41I'm going to create a new workbook so we

0:44can

0:44do all of this in WebEdit. I'm not going to

0:46be opening desktop at all. You tend to get

0:49better performance on desktop. And that's

0:50why I'm doing it on the web just to see

0:52what

0:52it's like. The first thing I'm going to do

0:54is bring in sales. And then I'm going to

0:57bring

0:57in some information about those sales. So

1:00probably going to bring the product name.

1:03So we get lots and lots of marks onto the

1:05visualization. Now, this looks awful. But

1:07let's correct that by putting profit on the

1:09columns. So we now have this chart. You

1:12might

1:12have even built this if you've done some of

1:14the fundamental training from Tableau. I'm

1:16also going to bring in a filter because I'd

1:19like to be able to see how this behaves

1:21with

1:22filters. So you can see here I've got the

1:24two filters. And the last thing I'm going

1:26to do is bring in the color for the sub

1:27category because that, again, makes it

1:29slightly more

1:30complex for the charts to render. And I'll

1:34also maybe put the quantity on size so I

1:37can

1:37see the volume of sales as well. And I'll

1:39even chuck in some opacity in there just to

1:42try and crank up the amount of information

1:45that we've got here as much as we possibly

1:47can. I think the only other thing I could

1:51do is potentially bring the customer name

1:55into the mix to create even more data

1:57points on the visualization. So there we

2:00have it.

2:00We've got 10,000 marks. You can just sit

2:02here on the left-hand side, very, very

2:04bottom left-hand

2:05side. It tells you how many data points

2:07there are in the visualization. So what I

2:09now need

2:10to do is enable animation. So I just go

2:12here to format at the very top. And then if

2:15I hit

2:15animations and then switch it on, you now

2:18have animations enabled. And again, I'm

2:20doing

2:20this in WebEdit. So it's already having a

2:22little bit of a think on these 10,000 marks

2:25.

2:25I think it's just the cursor actually

2:27hanging. So actually, it's done whatever it

2:28's done,

2:29and the cursor is just hanging on that sp

2:30inner. So if you don't move your mouse, you

2:32think

2:32it's still doing something. But actually,

2:34it seems to be fine. Now, if I go here to

2:37the duration and style, I think these are

2:39what I'm going to leave them at. I'm going

2:41to leave them at the defaults. And we're

2:42just going to start playing around with

2:44this. What

2:44I might do as well is just add in a

2:47category filter. So if I just bring that in

2:50here like

2:50though, I'm used to the little option to

2:53show the filter directly from the data pane

2:55, which

2:56is why I was looking for that. And then

2:58what I can do is just -- where is the

3:01option to

3:02show the filter? Is it -- oh, there it is.

3:05It's WebEdit. It's kind of weird because

3:07you

3:07can't really control much of what's going

3:09on. So I can't even change the order of

3:10these

3:11filters. I think potentially if I bring it

3:13up to the top here, I can't even do that.

3:16I think it's just the order that's in there

3:19. So now watch what happens as I unfilter

3:23some

3:24of these. Now, we should see improved

3:26performance. It is slightly better. I've

3:30got 10,000 marks

3:31here, and you can see it's doing a slightly

3:33better job of sort of animating things in.

3:35And now let's just take office supplies

3:37back in. What I'm going to do is I'm going

3:39to reduce

3:39sort of the outliers that we have in our

3:41data set. You can see that's almost

3:43instantaneous.

3:44And again here with this slider for sales,

3:47let's bring that in. That kind of gives us

3:49a little bit of scope. If I just keep going

3:52down the profit and just really kind of

3:54narrow

3:55in on a particular range here -- there we

3:57go -- that will just help spread this out

3:59a bit more. Now as I bring in more sales,

4:02you should get sort of the right-hand side

4:05moving out. But there's actually not that

4:06many transactions. So let's just leave it

4:08at that. And now this is kind of cool. You

4:10can see that it is actually more responsive

4:12.

4:12I have to give it that. I wouldn't have

4:14typically done this in WebEdit myself. I

4:17wouldn't have

4:18taken the risk because the performance is a

4:21little bit of an expensive thing to do.

4:23As I select these, also this is quite nice

4:25actually. So yeah, this seems to be working

4:28quite nicely, and it's quite responsive. I

4:30'm clicking, I'm clicking things. You do

4:32have

4:32to wait a little bit longer. I'm not going

4:34to lie. It's not the same as just being

4:35able

4:36to add and remove things. But actually, I

4:38think once it starts to cache some of these

4:41responses, it's a little bit faster anim

4:43ating those things back in. So if you see

4:45here,

4:45let me take an untick furniture. It's a

4:47little bit faster to respond. Or maybe I'm

4:50just making

4:51that up. It's one of those things where

4:53perception can sort of be relative, right?

4:55Relative to

4:56what you've seen before and also what you

4:58haven't seen before. So that's pretty much

5:00the enhancements. Now I haven't had much

5:02luck with the step line feature. This is

5:04also supposed

5:05to have improved. I'll just show you what I

5:07mean in terms of not having much luck. I

5:09just put sales on here. I'll change this to

5:11a month to give it sort of a decent time

5:14frame.

5:14And you can change the path here to a step

5:16line. Now I have animations enabled already

5:20.

5:20If I put this on to filters, click all, hit

5:23apply and then OK. You don't have to hit

5:26apply

5:27and OK. You can just hit OK. Show filter.

5:30And what's supposed to happen is as I

5:33remove

5:33office supplies, I can add this didn't

5:35happen before. It's clearly something good

5:37is happening

5:38for this demo. So here you go. Step lines

5:40now behave a little bit better in terms of

5:43this animation mark as well. So yeah, this

5:45is a little bit buggy. Obviously, I tried

5:47honestly try this 10 minutes ago and it

5:49didn't work. I tried it twice. It didn't

5:51work twice.

5:52I opened a new window. Now here we are on

5:54the final cut and it's working perfectly.

5:56So there you have it. This is how the step

5:59line features also been improved to perform

6:01a little bit better. It was buggy before

6:03and wasn't sort of adhering to the

6:04animations.

6:06So that's pretty much it for this animation

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