# Tableau 2020.2: Ask data custom suggestions.

> 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:** 2020-05-06
- **Format:** Video · 3 min watch · transcript available
- **Topics:** Data visualisation, Analytics
- **Tools:** Tableau (ask data)
- **Canonical:** https://just-tim.com/posts/tableau-2020-2-ask-data-custom-suggestions
- **Watch:** https://www.youtu.be/b4Mu2Pi9HjU

I walk through the custom suggestions capability added to Ask Data in Tableau 2020.2. Using the Superstore data source, I show how to remove suggestions that don't make sense, edit existing ones, and tailor them to lead users towards better questions.

## Key takeaways

- A new pencil icon in the Ask Data interface lets you customise the suggested questions shown to users
- You can remove suggestions that don't make sense, such as pie chart options or unhelpful default questions
- Editing a suggestion is as simple as typing into the field, with auto-complete helping you build a better prompt like 'sum of sales by region'
- Ask Data breaks a natural language query into simpler component queries automatically
- Customising suggestions helps guide users towards the questions they can usefully ask of a data source

Watch the full video, read the transcript and use chapter deep-links on the page: https://just-tim.com/posts/tableau-2020-2-ask-data-custom-suggestions

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