# Tableau Conference 2023 Keynote Roundup

> 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:** 2023-05-11
- **Format:** Video · 19 min watch · transcript available
- **Topics:** Data visualisation, AI & ML, Industry trends
- **Tools:** Tableau (ai, data modelling, embedding, maps, prep, public, pulse)
- **Canonical:** https://just-tim.com/posts/tableau-conference-2023-keynote-roundup-tableau-conference-2023
- **Watch:** https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h7nGyZe5L9s

I round up the hour-and-a-half Tableau Conference 2023 keynote in under 15 minutes, walking through its six sections: the introduction, industry context setting, Tableau and AI, embedding, Salesforce Data Cloud, and Devs On Stage. I highlight the headline announcements including Tableau GPT, Tableau Pulse, the VizQL Data Service and a record 17 features shown on stage.

## Key takeaways

- Tableau GPT is not a single feature but an underlying large language model technology, comparable to Hyper, that surfaces across Prep, embedding and Pulse.
- Tableau Pulse is effectively metrics unleashed, giving authors a dedicated home to build metrics without dashboards and ask natural-language questions powered by Tableau GPT.
- The VizQL Data Service decouples Tableau's data engine from rendering, letting developers query data via code and build applications on top of VizQL.
- Salesforce Data Cloud lets you ingest data, model relationships once and pull ready-built data sources straight into Tableau, with Hyper now powering the Salesforce platform.
- Devs On Stage showcased a record 17 features including Tableau GPT writing regex in Prep, Tableau Public UI updates, shared data modelling, native geocoding and faster Sankey charts.

## Chapters

- 0:10 Keynote structure overview
- 1:22 Introduction and community
- 3:43 Context setting: a new day for data
- 4:43 Tableau and AI: Tableau GPT
- 7:28 Tableau Pulse
- 9:57 Embedding and VizQL Data Service
- 13:02 Salesforce Data Cloud
- 14:52 Devs On Stage highlights

Watch the full video, read the transcript and use chapter deep-links on the page: https://just-tim.com/posts/tableau-conference-2023-keynote-roundup-tableau-conference-2023

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