# Tableau 2024.2 Features

> 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:** 2024-05-17
- **Format:** Video · 1642 min watch · transcript available
- **Topics:** Data visualisation, Industry trends, AI & ML
- **Tools:** Tableau (ai, catalog, cloud, data modelling, embedding, extensions, prep, public, pulse, relationships, server)
- **Canonical:** https://just-tim.com/posts/tableau-2024-2-features
- **Watch:** https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bdmsd2guWuw

Tableau 2024.2 is about to drop, so I walk through the coming soon page and give a rundown of each headline feature, from Einstein Copilot across Desktop, Prep and Catalog to multi-fact analysis, Viz extensions and local file saving in Tableau Public Desktop. I flag what excites me, what I'm unsure about, and note that this is also the only Tableau Server release this year.

## Key takeaways

- With only three releases a year, 2024.2 is the single Tableau Server update for the year, so server users should plan around it
- Multi-fact analysis lets you share dimensions across multiple logical models and only works through relationships, not joins
- Local file saving in Tableau Public Desktop Edition means a genuinely free Tableau you can use without ever connecting to Tableau Public
- Einstein Copilot now spans data exploration, Prep formula generation and auto-generated Catalog metadata descriptions
- Viz extensions finally bring custom charts like Sankey to Tableau, likely Desktop only and via a new community Exchange
- Incremental extracts with sub-range refresh let you keep recent data fresh while holding older records as a snapshot

## Chapters

- 0:00 Release overview and why 2024.2 matters
- 1:21 Einstein Copilot for data exploration
- 3:20 Einstein Copilot for Tableau Prep
- 4:46 Einstein Copilot for Tableau Catalog
- 5:47 Tableau Pulse embedded components
- 7:05 Pulse dynamic sorting and grouping
- 7:52 Pulse metrics in Catalog
- 8:57 Viz extensions and custom charts
- 10:10 Multi-fact analysis
- 13:58 VizQL Data Service API
- 15:10 Custom schedules for Prep Conductor
- 16:40 Local file saving in Tableau Public Desktop

Watch the full video, read the transcript and use chapter deep-links on the page: https://just-tim.com/posts/tableau-2024-2-features

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