# Datum Podcast Live

> 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:** 2020-03-18
- **Format:** Video · 3293 min watch · transcript available
- **Topics:** Industry trends, Productivity, Career
- **Tools:** Tableau
- **Canonical:** https://just-tim.com/posts/datum-podcast-live
- **Watch:** https://youtu.be/4QxCKOg37Yo

This is a live-streamed episode of the Datum Podcast where Ravi and I talk through remote working in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic. We cover the scramble to work from home, why cloud-set-up businesses weathered it best, the behavioural-economics fallout, and how the future of work and learning might shift.

## Key takeaways

- Organisations already running cloud and SaaS infrastructure adapted to enforced remote work far more easily than those reliant on on-premise servers, VPNs and intranet-locked systems.
- The real challenge of the pandemic shift wasn't the scale of remote working but the pace, with companies given days rather than months to move everyone home.
- Trust and routine matter more than tooling for remote productivity, and the absence of either is what historically made work-from-home trials fail.
- Tool adoption is driven by existing integrations and trust, which is why Microsoft Teams often wins over Slack and why Facebook for Work carried a stigma.
- Forced lockdown is creating an unprecedented real-time dataset for behavioural economists, alongside a surge in self-directed learning via Udemy, MOOCs and certifications.

## Chapters

- 0:00 Setting up the live stream
- 7:46 Intro and last episode recap
- 11:34 Tableau updates and platform resilience
- 14:03 COVID-19 context and the shift home
- 16:58 Cloud versus on-premise infrastructure
- 25:57 Behavioural economics of the pandemic
- 31:42 The future of work and productivity
- 37:40 Collaboration tools and integration friction
- 47:17 Learning, upskilling and certifications
- 50:40 Wrap-up and streaming metrics

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

---
just-tim — Data and analytics, with a point of view. · https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7HYxRWmaNlJux-X7rNLZyw · https://twitter.com/TableauTim · https://www.linkedin.com/in/timngwena