Notion now supports Tableau Embeds natively.

0:00Hey it's Tim here and today's video a quick

0:01update about Notion and Tableau. Let's get

0:04stuck in.

0:05Okay so out of the blue a couple of days

0:07ago Notion posted this post. Essentially

0:10private

0:10Tableau dashboards are now embeddable in

0:13Notion. Now when they posted this I was

0:15like wait a minute

0:16I've done a video on this and I swear it

0:18was way more difficult to even add a Table

0:20au public viz

0:21to Notion and actually when I checked my

0:23video you know that was the case if you

0:25actually

0:26do a quick google I'll do one now if I

0:28search Tableau and Notion my video comes up

0:31top and

0:32you can see that in August I showed people

0:34a way of doing it and it involved quite a

0:35few steps.

0:36It also made me realize that behind the

0:38scenes they've changed it and made it much

0:40much easier.

0:41So let me show you how much easier it is

0:44now. If I go ahead to my Tableau public

0:46profile I

0:47really need to get into the viz game again

0:49because I used to make vizs and I just don

0:51't do that

0:52anymore for lots of reasons maybe that's a

0:54separate video. But let's say I want to

0:56take this trees in

0:56New York visualization maybe not that one

0:58because that actually takes a while to load

1:00. Let's

1:01take this one a visit the day that I did

1:03from ages ago about Donald Trump even

1:06better pick.

1:07Let's take the link and if we head over to

1:10Notion I've got a page here that's been set

1:12up and what

1:13I'll do here is I'll just basically go and

1:15try and do an embed. So in Notion when you

1:18do backslash it

1:19gives you this little block insertion tool

1:21and you can just go ahead and type what you

1:23're looking for.

1:24I'll type embed, select embed and then I'm

1:27able to just go ahead and paste the link to

1:29the viz

1:30hidden bed link and lo and behold it loads.

1:34This was not how it worked before I promise

1:37you if I

1:38put my face over there you can see that it

1:40loads. Now one of the nice things about Not

1:42ion is not

1:42only of course that it's a very flexible

1:44tool but you can play around with the

1:46sizing of this window

1:47just by doing that and I think this

1:49actually represents one of the nicest ways

1:51to embed a

1:52tableau public viz. Now the thing is if you

1:54make the viz smaller than the space the viz

1:57is supposed

1:57to have then you'll see that it does

1:59actually cut it out so you want to make

2:01sure that whatever you

2:02do you do actually kind of get the spacing

2:04right but as far as I'm concerned if I just

2:06zoom out a

2:07little bit so we can see this work a little

2:09bit better you can see it fits the page

2:11nicely and

2:11you can have this set in Notion and what I

2:14realized is that oh this is super useful

2:16and the problem we

2:18had before is that you couldn't do this

2:20with a tableau cloud or tableau server link

2:22and now

2:23that's possible. I'm not going to show you

2:24that though because I have a bug with my

2:26tableau online

2:27instance where essentially the viz doesn't

2:29load. I'm not sure if it's a Notion thing

2:31or a tableau

2:32thing but in essence the exact same steps

2:34should work you should be able to take the

2:36url from your

2:37tableau public viz. Let's go ahead over

2:39here if I go back to this tweet you'll just

2:41get this

2:42particular url here grab that post it

2:45inside of Notion as an embed and it should

2:48just work.

2:49That is what this post is actually saying

2:50so if you actually get it to work let me

2:52know I'd love

2:53to see it working. An example maybe you

2:55should make your own video about the same

2:57thing but

2:59this actually opened up a new idea in my

3:01head because the thing about Notion is it's

3:03very very

3:04flexible you can set up a page however you

3:07want and I think it's made Notion the

3:09number one place

3:11to do data portfolios. What am I talking

3:13about? Well when you start to work in a

3:15tableau space

3:16your tableau public profile becomes your

3:18sort of creative space a place to showcase

3:21your work and

3:21actually the tableau public team have done

3:23an incredible job over the last few weeks

3:26and months

3:26even to make this a much much better place.

3:29That said you don't necessarily always want

3:32everything

3:32to be visible on your public profile and

3:34sometimes when you're working with a job

3:37recruiter or you go

3:38into an interview and you want to send

3:40someone one link you'd like to be able to

3:42curate what's

3:42on that page and what is nice about Notion

3:45if I go back to my where did it go if I go

3:47back to this

3:48little tab here you'll see that it actually

3:50lets you control a lot more than just what

3:52we see so

3:52let me do this let me go ahead and grab

3:54this let's just delete this block and let

3:56me put my face back

3:57on here and one of the nice things you can

3:59do is you can set up blocks so just as a

4:01very simple

4:02example let me go and get another viz let's

4:04go get something smaller let's get this one

4:07for example

4:07let's take this presidential race uh viz

4:10another visit of the day i'll go ahead and

4:13share that grab

4:14the link and copy that and the nice thing

4:17about this is I actually figured out a

4:19technique in this

4:20particular visualization so in my portfolio

4:23I could be trying to showcase a technique

4:25so what

4:25I can do here is I can see backslash embed

4:28and if we go ahead and select that we'll

4:30paste this in

4:31hit embed link and you'll see that it goes

4:34ahead and adds the visualization as you

4:36would expect

4:36now the really nice thing is that now I can

4:39put this in context I can actually start to

4:42sort of

4:42build a page around this so you could say

4:44something like you could do like a h3 maybe

4:48and say

4:48tableau visit of the day and you could add

4:53some text about this so in this viz I

4:58figured out a

5:00tracking reference line reference line okay

5:04and you can start to add text and the the

5:09flexibility

5:09of notion allows you to really sort of go

5:11to town with this and then you can add

5:13something called a

5:14toggle so you can say look let's go add a

5:17toggle list and we can say view the viz

5:20okay and now that

5:21you've done that you can add other visit of

5:23the day so maybe you've got like all my

5:25visit of the

5:25days all the things you want to do and you

5:28can just drag this particular viz inside of

5:30that

5:30content block and so now it sits inside of

5:33this little block now the frustrating thing

5:35with this

5:36if I just try and expand it wider you see

5:38it doesn't go wide enough to kind of expand

5:41from

5:41the git so what I have to do is I have to

5:43go up here and set the page to full width

5:45and now it

5:45works but the the text looks a little bit

5:47weird but what it does allow you to do is

5:49you can put

5:50multiple visits in here and when the user

5:52drops this toggle down they see the viz and

5:54it's actually

5:55going to load and then they can interact

5:57with it and you can see here the technique

5:59that I actually

5:59figured out was this ability for the

6:01tracking line to follow on a separate chart

6:03whilst hovering over

6:05the first one there's a video of how to do

6:06this already on my youtube channel from way

6:08back when

6:09and but in essence I think this is a really

6:11nice setup you could do some really really

6:12powerful

6:13things the other thing you could do with

6:15this if you want to get it all left aligned

6:16is you can

6:17actually play around with the layout on

6:19notion and go to town with that but in a

6:20separate video

6:21we'll actually go ahead and build a really

6:23good data portfolio using all the

6:25capability of notion

6:26to do layout but then the power of embed

6:28ding in tableau to put them inside of this

6:31and I think

6:31this is a much nicer thing to be able to

6:33share because you can customize it you can

6:34make it your

6:35own and you can also link off to blogs and

6:37other assets that you've created in other

6:39places even

6:40videos of talks that you've done this is a

6:42much much better way of showcasing your

6:44work so look

6:45out for the video when I get to do that in

6:46the next month or so but anyways thanks for

6:48watching

6:49and I'll catch you in the next one

6:50you

6:59you

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