# Tableau Data Guide: New in Tableau 2022.3

> 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:** 2022-10-20
- **Format:** Video · 15 min watch · transcript available
- **Topics:** Data visualisation, Tool strategy
- **Tools:** Tableau (ai, cloud, dashboards, filters, server)
- **Canonical:** https://just-tim.com/posts/tableau-data-guide-new-in-tableau-2022-3
- **Watch:** https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FaYHe1BmvXo

I walk through the new Data Guide feature in Tableau 2022.3, a pane that helps users understand a dashboard at the dashboard, view and mark levels. I cover applied filters, outliers, explanations, the upcoming Data Change Radar, and how authors add descriptions and links, plus the limited admin controls available.

## Key takeaways

- Data Guide operates at three levels of detail: dashboard, individual view, and a specific mark, with the pane updating context as you click deeper.
- It surfaces applied filters, used fields and explained-data style outliers, so badly named fields and stray hidden filters become visible to all users.
- Authors can add a description and multiple labelled links (guides, changelogs, videos, documentation) at both dashboard and visualisation level, but URLs must be properly formed with http.
- Data Guide hosts Explanations (similar to Explain Data) and the new Data Change Radar, which snapshots a dashboard to show changes over time.
- Admin control is limited: you can only set whether Data Guide opens by default at user level, and disabling Explain Data site-wide does not switch off the outlier analysis.

## Chapters

- 0:00 Introducing Data Guide
- 0:53 Dashboard, view and mark levels
- 2:26 Applied filters and field lists
- 3:36 Data Guide versus Data Details
- 4:47 Explanations and Data Change Radar
- 6:45 The author experience and adding links
- 10:12 Server, cloud and visibility controls
- 12:16 Graceful degradation and Explain Data

Watch the full video, read the transcript and use chapter deep-links on the page: https://just-tim.com/posts/tableau-data-guide-new-in-tableau-2022-3

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