Tableau public improved search: New in Tableau 2021.1

0:00Hey, it's Tim here. Over the last week,

0:01Tableau Public is starting to get some of

0:03the features

0:03that were supposed to be released in 2021.1

0:06. The first most notable one is the search

0:09experience.

0:09So I don't know if you've ever used the

0:11Tableau Public search fields, it's actually

0:13been a bit of

0:13a pain to use and it's never really sort of

0:15yielded valuable results in the past

0:17because

0:18it didn't really search things that made

0:20sense. So now that's been improved, we're

0:21going to go

0:22ahead and try it out here on the very top

0:24right hand side. So if I go over here to

0:26the top right

0:26hand side, I just point an arrow to where I

0:28'm looking. You can see there's a little

0:29search icon

0:30on the top right hand side. And if we just

0:32go ahead and click on it, it takes us to

0:33the search

0:34field. And what I'm going to do is I'm

0:35going to search for one of my own visitors,

0:37this is the

0:37sort of easiest way to do this. So I'm just

0:39going to search Donald Trump. Unfortunately

0:41, yes, I'm

0:42bringing this guy up again, Donald Trump

0:45tweets. This was actually a makeover Monday

0:47for a while.

0:49And if I just go ahead and search that, you

0:52'll see that the search experience is

0:54actually now

0:54improved. The first thing you get is you

0:56get a preview of the visualizations, which

0:58is actually

0:58nice to see because it's a very visual

1:00place. So you want to be able to see this

1:02thing. Now,

1:03the thing it does with the searches, it

1:05actually looks at the titles in a little

1:08bit more of a

1:08meaningful way. So let's say there's a make

1:10over Monday and everyone names their visual

1:13izations

1:13in a certain way, this is actually going to

1:15be able to sort of find it for you. Now,

1:17the other

1:17thing it does is it splits it into two

1:19formats. So you've got the visitors on the

1:21left and then

1:21you've got authors on the right. So when I

1:23go over to the authors, it's going to find

1:25everyone who's

1:26called Donald. So it's starting to work a

1:28little bit more like an actual search

1:30engine where it's

1:31using the information to go and

1:33specifically find the thing you're

1:35interested in. So if you wanted

1:36to search, for example, myself, I just

1:38searched my name here, you just want to

1:40find my profile,

1:41you maybe can't find it. It comes up with

1:43not just me, but also my brother who's over

1:46here. So he's

1:46also created a profile and it's basically

1:48using the surname and then it's also using

1:51my first name.

1:52And so the first option here on the left is

1:54the person who meets both of that criteria,

1:56the first name and the last name. The

1:57second one is the person that meets the

1:59second criteria.

2:00And then the third option and everything

2:02else is just everyone else called Tim,

2:03essentially. Okay,

2:04so that's a really cool, nice quality of

2:06life improvement. If you've ever tried to

2:07search for

2:08an author through the search, I can stand

2:10no chance. But now this is really, really

2:12nice.

2:12So if I go back to the business tab, and we

2:14just sort of scroll through this, you'll

2:17notice that,

2:17you know, it has lots of context. So when I

2:19've searched to Tim McGuenna, now it will go

2:23through

2:23my visits. So if I go back to the business

2:25tab, having searched for myself, you'll see

2:28that it

2:28actually just lists my visualization. So it

2:30's kind of interesting because it's

2:33basically ordering

2:34these visits again, in terms of the

2:36priority of the term that you searched. So

2:38first, it's finding

2:39everything that says Tim McGuenna anywhere

2:42in the profile, and then it's going to

2:44other parts of the

2:45profile. And it's basically going on Tim,

2:47and my brother hasn't published anything.

2:49So his is not

2:49sort of appearing in this list. And so you

2:51can sort of start to see how much smarter

2:53it is. Okay,

2:54I go back and I just search, let's say we

2:56want to find this particular viz. And let's

2:59say the

3:00presidential race. Let's see if anyone else

3:04has ever done that on Tableau. And yeah,

3:07there's

3:07actually quite a few people who've done it.

3:09And someone's actually used my design over

3:12here on the

3:12right hand side. And essentially, just what

3:15you can do sometimes you can go in and do a

3:17web edit

3:18on a visualization and see how someone has

3:20created that. So this is actually a really

3:21good way of

3:22sort of seeing that in Anna. So if I keep

3:24scrolling down, you can see other people

3:26have sort of

3:27got titles that have that same thing. And

3:30again, another makeover Monday, and people

3:32are visualizing

3:33in lots of sort of interesting ways. And so

3:35it can, of course, find the one that I

3:37built here

3:37on the left. And again, it's doing that

3:39based on a bunch of other factors. I assume

3:41it's by views,

3:42by likes, and so on and so forth. It's sort

3:46of storing in some way, although this one

3:48over here,

3:49248,000, you'd argue is probably, you know,

3:52should should be a little bit higher, if

3:54that makes sense.

3:55So it's kind of interesting how it arrives

3:57at this conclusion. I don't know if it's

4:00looking

4:00for the exact match of the titles, but it's

4:03starting to work a bit more like a search

4:05engine,

4:05it's actually reasonable to expect to find

4:07something that you want in here. So I'm

4:09hoping

4:10Tableau maybe share a little bit more about

4:11the way the algorithm works so that you

4:13know,

4:13people can tell people, you know, maybe if

4:15you start including hashtags in your visits

4:17,

4:17it's actually a reliable way of finding a

4:19group of visualizations. So if I was to,

4:21for example,

4:22search make over Monday, I think what we'll

4:28find is a whole bunch of things that were

4:32titled make

4:33over Monday in the title, but you can see a

4:35lot of people use the hashtag. So if I was

4:37to go in here

4:38and use the hashtag and hit enter, I

4:41actually need to remove the space and then

4:44hit the search icon.

4:46I think it creates a space if I don't do

4:48that. So here you can see everything titled

4:50make over

4:51Monday in the title, which is a great way

4:52of actually just browsing the wealth of

4:54stuff

4:55that's come in. So if people start naming

4:57their thing in a structured way, then you

4:59can start to

5:00see how this can really, really work. Even

5:02if you have make over Monday somewhere in

5:04the description,

5:04it's still going to put it up in this list,

5:06which is actually really, really nice. And

5:08you can find

5:08things that are sort of really interesting,

5:10really nicely designed items, and really

5:12some things that

5:12would be just difficult to call to stumble

5:14across if you weren't already looking for

5:16it. So I think

5:17this is going to help lots of people, you

5:19know, get their content out to more people

5:21because search

5:22has always been a big bugbear. But imagine

5:24make over Monday's finished, you want to go

5:26see all

5:26the make over Mondays, and you'll be able

5:28to see that I'd love to see the ability to

5:30sort this by

5:31recency. So I'd love you I'd love to be

5:33able to say look, I only want to see things

5:35created in the

5:35last week. So I could go in search make

5:37over Monday from the last week and see what

5:39people are making

5:40if that makes sense, or even be able to

5:43sort the relevance by recency, popularity,

5:46views, all those

5:47kinds of things. I hope that's something

5:49that's in the works coming in the future.

5:50If not, let's

5:51go on the ideas page and add that in as a

5:52suggestion. But that's pretty much it for

5:55this

5:55video. I just wanted to show you that

5:56feature because I think Tableau Public is

5:58getting some

5:58love after a long, long while. I'm not sort

6:00of getting too much attention, valuable

6:02attention.

6:03The other feature we're still waiting on is

6:05actually the ability to do web edit in

6:06Tableau

6:07Public. That was sort of slated for release

6:10when Tableau 21.1 came out, but

6:13unfortunately,

6:13that's been delayed a little bit by the

6:15looks of thing. It was removed from the

6:16announcement page,

6:17so it might be pushed back to a later

6:19release, or it might just be released on

6:21its own back at some

6:23point in the next few months. So let's look

6:24out for that. Thanks for watching. If you

6:26've liked the

6:27video, you know what to do. Be sure to

6:28check out the Tableau Tim website. I've got

6:30a whole playlist

6:31here on 2021.1. It's a really sort of good

6:34place to go look at it. If you just hit

6:36that button on

6:37the home page, it takes you straight to the

6:39playlist and you can see all the other

6:40videos

6:40on this. I'm actually recording this in the

6:43past, so when you go to this, you'll see

6:44more videos

6:45and what's already here. And yeah, I've got

6:48about seven videos on the slate at the

6:50moment to edit.

6:50So by the time you're seeing this, this

6:52list will be much, much more up to date.

6:54And hopefully,

6:55there's a bunch of other playlists here

6:56that you'll also find useful. Going back to

6:58Tableau

6:58functions, level of detail, calcs and LODs

7:01and all that kind of stuff. So

7:03thanks for watching and I'll catch you in

7:11the next video.