Tableau 2020.2: Ask data custom suggestions.

0:00In Tableau 2020.1, Tableau have added the

0:04ability to add custom suggestions in the

0:07Ask

0:07Data interface. Let me show you how to get

0:10there. I'm just going to hit "Explore" and

0:12go to one of

0:12the data sources that I use quite often. It

0:15's the SuperStore data source. I'm going to

0:18click

0:18"All data sources" there. You'll see I just

0:20have the one on my test environment. I'm

0:22going to click

0:22on that and then we arrive at the Ask Data

0:25interface. That's almost a default landing

0:27page you see here. We can notice something

0:30new straight away. If you look over here,

0:32I have this pencil icon next to this group.

0:35This is some of the custom capability that

0:37Tableau have added. I can actually remove

0:40some of these suggestions if I want to. If

0:42they don't make

0:43sense, I can actually remove them and I can

0:46actually add them or edit my own ones to

0:48make

0:49it much, much easier for people to find

0:51their own questions. You can see here that

0:53they're grouped

0:54by different attributes. Looking at things

0:57like filters, date and time, you can

1:00actually come in

1:00here and customize some of those and even

1:03choose the different map types that you've

1:05got available

1:06to you. I don't like pie charts, so the

1:08first thing we can do straight away is just

1:11to get rid

1:12of that one because who would ever want to

1:14use a pie chart? Not me. That's that fix

1:17that's

1:17immediately made things a lot better. If I

1:19go back down to the basic data analysis

1:23section,

1:24I can actually remove this question by

1:26state or I can just start typing inside of

1:29the square and I

1:30can say maybe do this by region because

1:32region makes more sense and you can see it

1:34auto completes

1:35that. Now that suggestion is much, much

1:38better. I can just start typing sum of

1:42sales

1:42and then I could say buy and it should have

1:46a little bit of a think of it and as I

1:49start typing

1:50R it should try and sort of auto complete

1:53but I think my version of Tableau is being

1:55a little

1:55bit slow and now if I hit enter you can see

1:59that it's broken those queries down into

2:02two simple

2:03queries and it's now able to do that. When

2:06I'm done I can obviously take these views

2:09and start

2:10working with them in WebEdit or I can

2:12simply close this and go back to my view

2:15where I was

2:16having a look at these data sources and

2:18just you keep on using ask data to browse

2:20this.

2:21Okay that's pretty much the feature in a

2:22nutshell it's very, very simple quality of

2:24life improvement

2:25for ask data but very much worthwhile to

2:27help those suggestions be a little bit

2:29smarter but

2:30also lead users in the right direction in

2:32terms of questions they can ask and

2:34questions they can't

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