0:03This is weird.
0:05Haven't done this in a while.
0:07Um yeah.
0:09Next week we're back
0:11I took a break.
0:12A very long break.
0:13I think a deserved break.
0:15But um I took a break and in that time so much has changed.
0:20Um I have to be honest, I've I've I've I've been struggling a little bit with understanding how to cover Tableau going forward.
0:29Uh it's just been a genuine struggle to understand how to cover what I feel like are diverging universes in the Tableau ecosystem, Tableau Next and then Tableau Core, which is the two worlds I talk about.
0:42I think I have a solution for that.
0:44But in the intervening time in the last three months, I've had some really profound thoughts about the Tableau product.
0:53To me anyway
0:55And I think I need to share them and because I've also, I guess, pledged specific videos, um the the
1:04the the four main videos that I were gonna I was gonna do when I came back were going to be the crash courses.
1:10I'm still editing those those are not a hundred percent and I've
1:13I realize I need to reshoot some parts of that and I'm also simultaneously working with LinkedIn to get a Tableau Next course live before the end of the year.
1:22So there's a lot of things going on.
1:25I'm essentially focusing on these big, really helpful pieces of content.
1:30Think of them as courses, think of them as masterclasses as you've seen recently, but they take a ton of time and effort
1:36That said, I also have what I think are just thoughts.
1:40That's all they are really, perspectives.
1:42And I don't write, so my only way to get them out is a video.
1:46The four thoughts are as follows.
1:48The first one is this idea of a cost per query.
1:53And if we extrapolate that further on,
1:58Did we ever answer the question, what is a dashboard worth?
2:02What what it what how do we assign value to dashboards today and also in the past?
2:09Because I think today the narrative is changing.
2:12I think it's pretty clear how vendors want us to assign value.
2:15But I don't think we ever answered the question of how we do it in the past.
2:18So that's sort of the first question.
2:20The the the second thing um is more of a perspective and it's about Tableau Public and Tableau the brand.
2:30Now I'm a big proponent of Tableau Public, but I actually settled on this, I guess, um, conflicting perspective that I don't think Tableau Public actually helps the Tableau brand.
2:40My video lights are
2:41have gone off.
2:42That's how long it's been since I last recorded a video.
2:44I forgot to check how charged they were, but for hell with that, I'm carrying on.
2:49Um
2:50I'm not sure the Tableau Public Brand helps the Tableau Brand.
2:55And that's a very
2:58sort of difficult opinion to get out.
3:01And I do think that needs a video.
3:02I think you need to sort of hear it coming from a mouth and see it coming from her mouth to understand the context and new ones and also to understand that I'm still a big supporter of Tableau Public
3:11So that's the second perspective.
3:14The third perspective is I've been really struggling with my passion for Tableau.
3:22What do I mean by that?
3:24I I simply mean that I've been learning and working with Tableau for so long that I'm not sure I have energy to learn it all over again.
3:32And that's really been actually the biggest struggle in the last three months
3:36The fact that most of what's new is in Tableau Next.
3:38And actually, if I'm honest, if I'm really honest, all the excitement that I used to bring to videos all in the past was because I was learning Tableau the product.
3:48And I think I'm done learning analytics products.
3:51I say that as a consultant who continuously has to learn uh new tools.
3:57I think I'm kind of done with it all.
3:58And I think I want to explain that and specifically pin it to the tableau.
4:02next concept, why I think that sort of disconnect is happening.
4:07And then very last but not least, um Tableau Next itself.
4:12And I think with this one, this is more of a
4:17There's more of like a simmering thought and I think I have to work through these first sort of three videos in order to to to like to get there.
4:24So
4:24Each of these will come out next week, back to back, each one, one per day, starting, let's say, Tuesday.
4:30Um, give myself Monday as grace.
4:32No one watches videos on Mondays, so Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday
4:36We'll have one video on each of these perspectives.
4:38Then the week after that, we'll start with the first crash course and we'll go on a weekly schedule from there.
4:43And in that time, you'll also see a couple of things.
4:45Um, this will be the only place I post the videos
4:47I've given up with LinkedIn for a lot of reasons.
4:51Um, I'm not going to be reposting YouTube videos there.
4:54So if you're watching this here and you find it useful.
4:56Um share it because I will not be reposting these on LinkedIn.
5:00The only thing I'll do is a summary of what I've posted once a month at the end of every month
5:04And on LinkedIn, what I'll do instead are written versions of these videos, essentially taking my transcript, using AI to sort of turn them into written content.
5:13editing them and then putting them back out with some slightly different twists given that they're going to be written rather than spoken.
5:20So
5:21That's where I'm at.
5:23Now, the other thing is on a personal note, uh it's I've realized this channel needs
5:29a concept called seasons.
5:31In essence, I need strategic breaks throughout the year in order to be able just to be, you know, a person, a human being.
5:38Um
5:39A lot of people ask you, hey, you know, when do you when do you find time to make content?
5:43Actually I haven't found time in the last three months because I've been busy with life.
5:47I've been busy at work, I've been busy being a father, I've been busy being a husband, a brother, a son, lots of different things.
5:54So those just take priority and I I'm never gonna apologize for putting those things first.
5:59But what it means is that there are just some times in the year where I just can't really pledge anything on the channel.
6:04So
6:05Seasons I think are going to be a good way to solve that.
6:07So what we're about to go into now is what I'll call the winter season, as it were.
6:12I'll think of better names.
6:14Um and then we'll take a break over Christmas and we'll come back maybe mid January to start what I would call um
6:22the spring season and that will go through until basically conference.
6:26I'll take a break during conference and we'll do that, then we'll go into the summer season and then that that that that'll be it for the year.
6:33And then we'll stop
6:34Always have a breakover summer and that will be it.
6:37So those will roughly align with new releases.
6:40It won't be perfect, but that will be how it goes.
6:43So
6:44That is what to come.
6:45Um yeah, I'm really excited to share some perspectives.
6:49Um I'm excited to see how things change.
6:51And yeah, sorry the lights went out, but yeah, that's just how it is.
6:54Thanks for watching.
6:55See you in the next one
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