What's coming soon in Tableau 2021.2

0:00Hey Sim here, in today's video it's that

0:01time of the year where we start to think

0:03about the next

0:04version of Tableau and in today's video I'm

0:06going to be doing a preview of 2021.2. It's

0:10almost time

0:10for this release to drop so what I'm going

0:12to be doing is going through the coming

0:14soon page

0:15which generally tends to give a pretty good

0:17overview of what's actually going to get

0:19released.

0:19Sometimes these features sort of miss the

0:21target date but generally speaking this

0:23will be everything

0:24that's coming out in the next quarter of

0:26the release. The other thing to be aware of

0:28is the

0:2920 the .2 release the the the second

0:32release of the year is typically the

0:34release that has some

0:36of the biggest number of features and that

0:38's just been a trend over the last two years

0:40it doesn't

0:40mean that that's always the case but

0:42generally speaking this is always a release

0:44that really

0:45sort of shows what Tableau's been working

0:47on in the previous year. So I'm really

0:49excited to see

0:50what's on this page if you've seen this

0:52already by all means drop a comment below

0:54let me know what

0:54you're interested in excited to see. If you

0:57're wondering where I am I'm actually just

0:59on the

0:59Tableau homepage here you can see the URL

1:01here at the top they have a coming soon

1:03page that

1:04is generally updated right before the

1:06release and that allows me to essentially

1:08just go through this

1:09in more detail you can go here too I'll put

1:11a link to this in the description below so

1:13you can browse

1:14these in your own speed. I've also put tim

1:16estamps across the bottom of the video so

1:18you can see

1:18what sections you may be interested in and

1:20jump directly to that but otherwise this

1:23might be a bit

1:23of a long video so let's get stuck in. Okay

1:25so the first thing that I realized is there

1:27's actually a

1:28new notice and this is actually I think a

1:30side effect of what's been happening

1:31recently with

1:32Tableau Online. Essentially what happens

1:35with Tableau Online is that's the

1:37infrastructure

1:38that's managed by Tableau. I actually did a

1:40talk for VizConnect about this particular

1:43Tableau

1:43Online instance that's set up across the

1:45world and depending on which hub you are

1:47they all get

1:48updated in advance of the release and it's

1:50for a simple reason. Imagine Tableau

1:53releases the desktop

1:54version of Tableau or Tableau prep and you

1:56go to use it and you go to upload something

1:59to your

1:59server but your server hasn't been updated

2:01yet that would cause a little bit of a sort

2:03of an

2:04issue and bearing in mind Tableau have

2:05millions of people using the Tableau Online

2:07instance they

2:08probably have to start doing these updates

2:10probably a month or two in advance of the

2:12actual release

2:13in order to catch up and do all the testing

2:15they need to do on all the instances across

2:17the world

2:18and make sure that it's a seamless

2:19transition because these upgrades are done

2:22hot so they

2:23don't take the server down and there's very

2:25minimal if any sort of impact on users as

2:28well.

2:28So it's just something to be aware of the

2:30reason the Tableau Online release tends to

2:33come sooner

2:33than most people expect is because they

2:36just have to do it that's just how you have

2:38to run

2:38infrastructure and software side by side.

2:41So that's something to be aware of that's a

2:43sort of

2:43a really nice thing to see here I think the

2:45reason it's here is because a lot of

2:47customers

2:48realized they were seeing features that

2:49hadn't been announced anywhere and so this

2:51notice is just

2:52there to let them know hey this sometimes

2:54happens. Okay so let's let's start off with

2:57the features

2:58let's go to this one now an interesting

2:59trend with this release is that actually

3:01viewers are getting

3:02some love I've always said in various

3:05forums that the viewer license is is sort

3:08of a difficult

3:09license to understand because the majority

3:11of Tableau has actually been built around

3:13the creator

3:14and therefore the viewer and explorer in

3:17some regards don't get like a first-class

3:19citizen

3:20experience and I don't mean that as as

3:22criticism of you know the direction of

3:24where Tableau is

3:25going it's just simply since the

3:26subscription model came into being it's

3:29been very easy to

3:30separate out what creators get what

3:32explorers get and what viewers get and just

3:34to give you

3:35a context of that if I just go to the Table

3:37au pricing page this is the page I always go

3:40to

3:40when I'm sort of explaining this to people

3:42just go to the pricing page to have a

3:44really nice matrix

3:45that they do themselves and essentially if

3:48you think about the way that licensing is

3:50done in

3:50general the majority of your users who end

3:53up being on a license are actually viewers

3:55and so

3:56if you go down to this little sort of cost

3:58explorer you can see the cost of each

4:00license

4:01but the more interesting thing is if you

4:03keep scrolling down and you go to the

4:04viewer you

4:05actually get this matrix of what each

4:07person's get now the thing to bear in mind

4:10is that on

4:10professional servers or you know instances

4:13across organizations the majority of people

4:16are actually

4:16in this explorer and viewer column but

4:19historically if you go back to the core

4:22model of pricing and

4:22the way Tableau has been built as a product

4:25it's actually been built around the creator

4:27if you

4:27think about all the features and server all

4:29the governance capabilities they're built

4:32around

4:32enabling the creator to share content to

4:35people so it's really important to see the

4:37shift because

4:38the majority of users who experience Table

4:40au might never ever build anything in Table

4:43au and so

4:43really need to start to cater to those

4:45users because that's in in a way that's

4:47where analytics

4:48is going there's this recognition that you

4:50know people need to be empowered to look at

4:52analytics

4:53themselves without having to need people

4:55building dashboards or you know huge teams

4:58of people

4:58building lots and lots of assets that you

5:01know largely never get used properly so

5:03um if you see this matrix if i just go back

5:05to the point i was making my point i've

5:07always made

5:07is listen a viewer basically gets the same

5:10sort of features as a generic cms system

5:13they can access

5:14they can interact and they can collaborate

5:17to a very sort of small extent but then if

5:20you actually

5:20see this list of features most of these

5:22other features are catered towards uh the

5:25creator you

5:26can just see the tick box here for creators

5:28the explorers do have a bit more

5:30functionality they

5:31do have a bit more capability but in

5:33essence it's really a creator-led

5:34experience the whole product

5:36has been historically designed around the

5:38creator if you don't agree with that or you

5:40disagree with

5:41that let me know in the comments i'd love

5:42to know what you think it's just it's just

5:44a perception

5:44that i've made and so going back to this it

5:46's actually really good to see the addition

5:49of ask

5:49data and explain data to viewers these are

5:52things that were only really possible

5:54before and i think

5:55to some explorers and going forward they're

5:58going to be enabled for everyone okay so

6:00ask data and

6:01explain data for viewers essentially this

6:03is the feature our state is the feature

6:05where you can go

6:06in and type a question and just uh you know

6:08tableau will come back with a response it

6:10kind

6:10of tries to pass out what you've typed into

6:12a sentence that can be processed through

6:15sql and

6:15that returns a visualization or a chart

6:18inside of tableau no need to build a chart

6:20you can then take

6:21that chart that it's built for you and then

6:23do it somewhere else you can sort of see

6:25this on screen

6:26here in this little gif that tableau

6:28created you can type in a very simple

6:30question and boom it'll

6:32build a chart and then you can use that

6:33analysis so having this for viewers is

6:36really good because

6:37it's going to allow people to start

6:39actually exploring the server and exploring

6:41data on the

6:41server so so this is a nice addition um

6:44explain data for viewers is also really

6:46important explain

6:47data gets a lot of love in this release for

6:50a couple of reasons um the first main

6:52reason is

6:52of course viewers can now use this this was

6:55actually a feature that was typically

6:57enabled

6:57for the creator when they right clicked a

6:59data point they could then get some

7:01additional context

7:02about what was happening at that data point

7:04and it does some you know statistical

7:06analysis of the

7:07data set and the fields behind that data

7:09set to try and understand what statistical

7:12significance

7:13that data point might have to the

7:14particular analysis that you're doing now

7:17generally speaking

7:17that it's not it's not heavily used by

7:19creators but i could also argue that that's

7:21not really the

7:22audience that's going to be using it a lot

7:24because creators tend to often know a bit

7:26about their data

7:27sources and when they're exploring the data

7:29it happens very very quickly you don't

7:31think to sort

7:32of right click a data point and go to it

7:34however on the other hand viewers are

7:36always curious to

7:37understand why certain behaviors are

7:38happening behind certain data points and

7:40that typically

7:41is a question that goes back to the creator

7:43and say hey what's happening behind this

7:45data point

7:45and so enabling people to actually do this

7:47themselves is actually quite nice

7:49um i'll be interested to see how this is

7:51implemented of course this isn't live yet

7:53um i mean it is live if you're using table

7:55au online and you've got access to an

7:57instance with

7:57it enabled but i always like to reserve

7:59judgment until it's actually released

8:02before i go in and

8:03start playing with the features um so that

8:04's just something really good that i think

8:06viewers are

8:07going to be getting uh it's important to

8:09see tablet adding capability for viewers um

8:12if i go

8:13to the next feature here collections now

8:15collections have actually been in a open

8:17beta sort of trial

8:18for the last month or two and they've

8:20actually taken on a lot of feedback about

8:22how these

8:23collections are managed and they've changed

8:25that functionality set for the better so

8:28these have

8:28actually been available if you've used

8:29these already this is sort of not really

8:31going to change

8:32radically the key thing to note here is you

8:34can essentially collect assets across

8:36different

8:37projects and put them in one place now that

8:40doesn't override the system that you have

8:42for

8:43security and governance and the best way to

8:45think of collections are tagged but on

8:47steroids i think

8:48that's exactly what a tableau developer

8:51said it's a more useful way of using tags

8:53except for it's

8:54its own asset its own item so tags

8:56essentially allow you to go to some content

8:59and type in like

9:00a hashtag or something and it groups that

9:02content that way this is slightly more

9:04advanced because

9:05what it actually does is it allows you to

9:06add content into something that looks like

9:08a project

9:09but isn't as restricted as a project and so

9:11it's just going to be a nice way to put

9:13everything

9:14in one place now if you fast forward this

9:16very much feels to me like a version one at

9:19conference

9:20we actually saw some enhanced versions of

9:22what this might look like in the future and

9:24so i'm

9:24really excited to see where this goes as

9:27always with tableau especially with brand

9:28new things

9:29the first release is never the final

9:31iterations there's normally three or four

9:34or five more

9:34releases worth of work if you think of the

9:37data model if you think of ass data if you

9:39think of

9:39explain data these things have been getting

9:41incremental features consistently for

9:44multiple

9:44releases so it's very much version one i'm

9:46excited to see where it goes i'm also

9:48excited to see what

9:49feedback they get to sort of see where this

9:51ends up so that's going to be really cool

9:53let's head

9:55on over to the next row which is the

9:57connected desktop for web authoring so um

10:00the browser is a

10:01big big big deal for tableau they're moving

10:04a lot of their capabilities to the browser

10:06however there

10:07are still some people who need to be able

10:09to go back to desktop so this is a nice

10:11feature because

10:12what it does is it connects the web

10:13experience with a desktop experience let's

10:15say you're building

10:16something in the web and you're not really

10:18sure um you know how to do something or you

10:20get stuck

10:21and you really need the power features of

10:23desktop this allows you to very quickly

10:25open up a workbook

10:26right from the browser which is sort of

10:27interesting so i'm going to be curious to

10:29see how that works

10:31this feels like to me a way of essentially

10:33creating a download button that then

10:35triggers

10:36tableau to open in another way so that's

10:38going to be super interesting i want to see

10:40how that works

10:41i hope it's not just a download button that

10:43you know um literally just downloads the

10:45workbook and

10:46then you have to sort of follow through so

10:48i'm excited to see how they've done that it

10:50is possible

10:51for some browsers to basically communicate

10:53with software in your machine but that

10:54might be an

10:55interesting sort of transition especially

10:57in organizations when something's jumping

10:58from the

10:59browser to your machine that's going to be

11:01interesting so i'm really keen to see how

11:03that

11:03works the mechanics of that how that works

11:05and really see if that's possible um you

11:07know elsewhere

11:08in especially in organizations that you

11:11know really really deep on security and you

11:13know

11:13restrict basically everything that goes

11:15through the internet wi-fi or ethernet port

11:18okay and the

11:19next one is jumpstart for salesforce

11:21connection so this one's an interesting one

11:23i always thought

11:24we already had some jumpstart workbooks for

11:26salesforce but what i think this is

11:28as you can now log into your tableau online

11:30account using salesforce login credentials

11:32a newly enabled integration tab makes it

11:35simple to tap into and analyze your sales

11:37cloud and service

11:38cloud all via ready to go work but that

11:40keeps your data fresh so what this looks

11:43like is they've taken

11:44elements of what you could already do so

11:46you can already do a single sign-on with

11:48salesforce it's

11:49possible to essentially make your sales

11:51force credentials log into tableau and then

11:54what

11:54they've also done is they've taken the jump

11:56start workbook and sort of package these two

11:58features

11:58into sort of a nice a nice little tool so

12:01and the main reason here is you know sales

12:03force owns

12:04tableau tableau is now a product it's not a

12:06company so you'd expect tableau to be

12:09building on

12:09the salesforce capabilities you know the

12:12famous uh salesforce 360 the customer 360

12:15that's going

12:15to be really really important for sales

12:17force going forward um you know tableau is a

12:19big acquisition

12:20so you really expect tableau to be adding

12:22salesforce features pretty much every

12:24release

12:24going forward and making it the go-to

12:27platform for doing analytics for salesforce

12:30okay the next

12:31one is the native data data armor connector

12:34now this is an interesting one because um i

12:37think it

12:37was two releases ago um there was a data

12:39armor connector for tableau but it wasn't

12:42native you

12:43had to go through this sort of weird um uh

12:46sort of uh process of downloading a file

12:49putting it in

12:49the right folder the closing tablet opening

12:52tableau again and then you have this

12:54connected

12:54through this sort of weird back door that

12:56tableau enabled through a feature now the

12:59cool thing here

12:59is that now this is just native and i've

13:02actually been excited for the data armor

13:03connector because

13:05i've always seen it as like a gateway to

13:06other data sources so i'm going to be

13:08interested to see if

13:09this makes it a lot easier i'm personally

13:12not too familiar with a data armor myself i

13:14've never

13:14really used it so this is maybe something i

13:16'll have to get sort of familiar with for

13:18the release

13:19ahead so i'm going to be interested to see

13:21how much easier it is for that native you

13:23know connected

13:23to work i assume it just works like every

13:25other connector for example for a microsoft

13:28sql server

13:29you just have the connector there you plug

13:31in your details and boom you're ready to go

13:33no sort

13:34of funny business required and i also

13:35assume this will work with online and

13:37through the web browser

13:38as well because most new features are also

13:41working in the browser so um i think that's

13:43going to be a

13:44nice sort of feature to add the area

13:46spatial calculations so this is really cool

13:49i really

13:50like this this is just you know the tableau

13:51mapping team continuously deliver if there

13:53's

13:53one part of tableau that is just pumping

13:56out features it's the mapping team every

13:58single

13:58release there's just something useful when

14:01it comes to mapping and spatial analysis

14:04and this

14:04was this was this is always something that

14:06you know people find amazing about tableau

14:08you know

14:08you double click a data point that's how

14:10they understand this geography and boom it

14:12opens it up

14:13and here what they've done is i've actually

14:15allowed you to do an area calculation which

14:16is quite a simple thing but being able to

14:18do it in the product means you can use this

14:21to do

14:21error calculations for reasonably i'm going

14:24to say small geographies now the issue here

14:28is that

14:28of course if you if you're a bit of a nerd

14:30you'll understand that the world isn't flat

14:32if you don't

14:33think that the world is if you don't think

14:35the world is round um this is probably not

14:37the video

14:38for you so yeah there's plenty of places on

14:40youtube for for flatter theories go go find

14:43them um but

14:44if you do believe the world is round then

14:46uh essentially when you try and calculate

14:48the area

14:49you're essentially taking a circle and you

14:51're warping it flat to calculate the area in

14:54terms

14:54of an image right so it's actually really

14:57hard to do the maths correctly for

14:59calculating um the

15:00area of a curved surface you've got to know

15:02a bit more than just a simple sort of

15:05formula that you

15:05use for area calculations so um there's

15:07actually a really good research paper i'll

15:09put it up on

15:10screen and i'll link it as well where tablo

15:12talk about this and in various places if

15:14you've ever

15:14dragged the distance between uh one point

15:17to another point you'll see that after a

15:19certain

15:20sort of range it starts to give you an

15:22estimate and what i actually did do is i

15:24asked the developers

15:25when they were building this feature hey is

15:27this actually going to be accurate for

15:29really large

15:30geographies and essentially the answer was

15:32that on smaller geographies for example the

15:35area in you

15:36know when you're calculating the area of

15:38something like a central park in new york

15:40this is going to

15:41be pretty much on point okay it's it's

15:43still an estimate but it won't it will

15:46still give you a

15:47good idea of the actual area because the

15:50complicated maths of getting it to do that

15:53sort of you know

15:53again this this warping correctly and then

15:56calculate the error is just just not there

15:59in

15:59this current version but you shouldn't be

16:01using this to calculate the area of let's

16:03say a country

16:04because if you take a simple uh take a

16:06simple constant let's go to a continent

16:08level take africa

16:10now africa looks flat on the map it

16:11actually looks smaller than it should

16:13actually look again i'll

16:14put another image of how africa would look

16:17like if the area was actually represented

16:19properly in the

16:20typical map projection it's not so the area

16:23when you're working over such a large area

16:27has a large

16:28level of inaccuracy so you shouldn't really

16:30be using it for anything large so that's

16:32just a small

16:32sort of nerdy detail about this feature

16:35that i found out through the uh testing

16:37process um so

16:38yeah that's just something to be aware of

16:40but pretty much everything's small and if

16:41you just

16:42find the area of a park or something or you

16:44want to know the um the area of a building

16:47and all the

16:48different plots you can do all of that very

16:50nicely in tableau and just figure it out

16:51the area of an

16:52airport that's another good example maybe

16:54airports have you know this particular sort

16:57of shape or

16:58maybe you're you know creating new

16:59buildings and you want to figure out how

17:00much plots of

17:01land you've got in different different

17:03areas you can do that quite easily in table

17:05au along with all

17:06the other spatial features that you're able

17:08to use already so that's kind of cool now

17:10map layers map

17:12layers i'm a bit of a map layers purist i

17:14only use my players for maps but many

17:16people use my players

17:18for other things i won't be talking about

17:20that in this video but what is nice here is

17:22you can now get

17:23a little bit of control for each of the

17:25layers now i've seen this work but in all

17:27honesty i think i'm

17:28going to have to try this again because

17:30this is one of those things where you don't

17:32really

17:32appreciate what it can do until you've

17:34tried it um but in essence we are able to

17:36sort of get more

17:37control about how the layers work that's

17:39the simplest ways of putting it but again i

17:42think

17:42i think this this could open up some some

17:44use cases that were possible before but

17:46just you know

17:48the experience wasn't quite right so i'm

17:50looking forward to seeing how how this

17:52works right tableau

17:54server in a container now this is this is

17:56for all the server nerds and all the

17:59infrastructure

18:00nerds out there um i'll take a brief detour

18:04long story short a while ago um a lot of uh

18:07software

18:08professionals and infrastructure

18:10professionals um sort of became really fond

18:12of something called

18:13a container now the best way to think of a

18:15container is a box imagine i take tableau

18:18and i put it in a box but then i have

18:20another box which maybe has let's say dare

18:24i say it power bi

18:26and then there's another box that runs

18:28something like microsoft sql server now the

18:30benefit of

18:31putting these things in separate boxes is

18:33they can't talk to each other they're

18:34completely

18:35separate system but then imagine that i

18:37take all three of those boxes and i put

18:39them in another box

18:41okay now those boxes are all inside of the

18:43same box but they have no idea that each of

18:46them exists

18:48and so this concept is essentially how

18:50servers work in the cloud essentially there

18:53's one big server

18:54and you create something called a container

18:56and in each container you put a particular

18:58service so in one box i might put tableau

19:01server in another one i might put microsoft

19:03sql server

19:04and in another one i might put power bi or

19:06whatever you want to use and then the great

19:09thing is as far

19:10as those three pieces of software are

19:12concerned they're not running on the same

19:14instance as each

19:15other they're all look like they're all

19:18running on the same software now the real

19:20power here is

19:21let's say if they all need to run on

19:23windows i don't need to install windows

19:26three times one in

19:27each box i can put windows in the bigger

19:29box the box that's containing all these

19:32things and they'll

19:32all just use that one instance of windows

19:35and so that's a very simplified way of

19:37explaining containers

19:38but what it means is that if you're an

19:40infrastructure or server guy or whatever

19:42this is going to make it much easier for

19:44you to run lots of services so being able

19:46to put tableau

19:46in a container means you can get this into

19:49probably your existing container setup and

19:52wherever you run that so that's the

19:53simplest way to sort of look at this um you

19:55know tableau

19:56marketing always try and simplify this but

19:58i thought i'd just give an alternative

20:00analogy

20:00uh to sort of allow people to understand

20:03what's going on the big thing here is again

20:05it's to do

20:06with availability consistently and handling

20:08um you know handling costs because if

20:10everything's

20:11running on one place you don't have to buy

20:13you know 10 licenses of windows to put one

20:15on each

20:16container and so on and so forth they're

20:18just small details probably that i don't

20:19fully understand here

20:20that does make it slightly easier for

20:23people who manage infrastructure to manage

20:26infrastructure so

20:27that's going to be something cool to see

20:30you might you might see um you know

20:31organizations moving to

20:33different versions of tableau for example

20:35tableau server on linux because many of the

20:37other services

20:38or container services run on linux as well

20:40so that might be a nice sort of thing to

20:43add but essentially

20:44this is just a big push to make tableau

20:46more cloud friendly all right let's go to

20:48the next one right

20:49to biggle query right to google big query

20:52okay this is an interesting one and i

20:55actually don't

20:56understand too much about the google big

20:58query connection i have used it once to

21:00analyze some

21:01airline data that was being loaded by

21:03google dynamically to show off google big

21:06query but

21:06beyond that i haven't really sort of used

21:08it before and the nice thing here is that

21:10in tableau

21:11prep it's now added as a data source so you

21:13can write to google big query from tableau

21:16prep which

21:16is nice to see essentially think of it as

21:18one additional connector that you can write

21:20to in

21:20tableau prep um if i go to the next one

21:23tableau id and multi-factor authentication

21:26now this is

21:27interesting we're excited to provide table

21:29au id and multi-factor authentication to our

21:32tableau

21:32online customers which provides them with

21:34the ability to enable multi-factor

21:36authentication

21:37on their sites mfa is one of the easiest

21:40most effective tools for enhancing login

21:42security

21:43and safeguarding your business data against

21:45security threats so i think what this

21:47essentially

21:47means is that tableau are adding the

21:49ability to add two-factor authentication to

21:52tableau online

21:53and the way it's going to do this is going

21:55to send a verification code to the email

21:58that you're using

21:58for tableau online so this is important

22:00especially in organizations that have high

22:02security standards

22:03two factors almost in necessity and if you

22:05think about it analytics lives on tableau

22:08online and so

22:09it's it's actually a pretty common attack

22:11vector especially when it comes to social

22:13engineering

22:14where someone will sort of try and get you

22:15to enter your password on another site this

22:18protects

22:18that because two factor will also then

22:21require codes to be sent to your email

22:23address which you

22:24then have to go and get and type in i also

22:27hope they add authentication devices for

22:29example some

22:30people use two factor through google

22:32authenticator or some of you might be

22:34familiar with authi this

22:36is an authentication app that's a really

22:38nice sort of app to use i prefer everything

22:40else so i hope

22:41they add support for that because the thing

22:43i find annoying about these email uh apps

22:45is the thing is

22:47um when everything's sending a text or an

22:49email you end up sort of optimizing the

22:51process for

22:52getting that code which then actually makes

22:54it very easy for someone else to figure out

22:56well

22:57if you're going to have a two-factor

22:58authentication code it's probably going to

22:59be texted to you

23:01and if you text or email where's the one

23:02place that you can find all that

23:04information your phone

23:05and so it makes your phone the next

23:07attacked vector so if someone's really

23:09persistent and

23:10trying to break into something they could

23:12probably figure out how to get into your

23:14phone and again

23:15most people's phone security isn't

23:17necessarily going to be as strong as this

23:19so i always i always

23:20wish there was sort of some more

23:22intelligent um you know two-factor

23:24authentication and in essence

23:26there's actually a general move to move

23:28away from passwords uh broadly speaking in

23:30the it industry

23:30so maybe i'll put a link to to that sort of

23:32topic below um but check that out this is

23:34going to be a

23:35nice quality of life improvement for tabla

23:37online and yeah let's go on to the next one

23:40new data

23:41sources for admin insights so this is an

23:44interesting one um admin insights i believe

23:47is

23:47something that's actually enabled on tablo

23:50online and what this is is essentially two

23:53data sources

23:53that you get you get ts events and ts users

23:56essentially ts events and users lets you

23:58track

23:59what's going on now one of the biggest um

24:01you know problems with this is that if you

24:03're a tableau

24:04server user you have access to the whole

24:06entire postgres database everything that's

24:09available

24:10and here on tableau online you don't get

24:12any of that so looks like they're adding

24:14data about

24:15groups and site content so you can actually

24:17start to look and see what's going on in

24:19there but again

24:20we'll have to sort of dip into that once

24:21that's available and really find out what's

24:24actually in

24:24that data and what can you now do with it

24:26that you couldn't do um it's going to be

24:28miles behind what

24:29you can do with tableau server i'll be up

24:31front with you here it's just really

24:33important to bear

24:33that in mind it's not quite the same access

24:35to the postgres database as you get with

24:37tableau server

24:39all right web altering improvement so this

24:41is again uh part of the big push to make

24:44everything

24:44better for the web so web altering

24:46improvements expanded formatting options

24:48more formatting

24:49parameter insert actions and expanded

24:51filter options so let's dig into this a

24:54little bit

24:54further customize your dashboards with the

24:56ability to format worksheets backgrounds

24:58titles and

24:59captions on the web that's a nice quality

25:01of life improvement one less reason to

25:03switch over

25:03to desktop but if you need to don't forget

25:05there's that feature up at the top that

25:07lets you very

25:08quickly open up desktop parameter and set

25:10actions you can now create parameter

25:12actions and set

25:13actions within web authoring so this is

25:15cool now i think they've actually done this

25:17using an extension

25:18and if you look at tableau public tableau

25:21public actually has extensions called

25:23parameter and set

25:24actions i cover this in my video about

25:26tableau public web altering and the sort of

25:29extensions

25:30that are available there i'll actually do a

25:32separate video and sort of some of the nice

25:34extensions that i've come across um

25:36expanded filter groups you can now define

25:39and edit top

25:40n and condition for discrete filters

25:42unlocking more advanced filtering so again

25:44they're just

25:44they're just taking off boxes here they are

25:47making web authoring really have true

25:49parity especially

25:50for the power features that a lot of people

25:52have um today you know when you're doing

25:54web edit you

25:55really have to trust that everything's

25:57available and in some cases it's just

25:59slightly done slightly

26:00differently it's not done exactly the same

26:02way so it's going to be interesting to see

26:04how this is

26:04actually rolled out all right multiple

26:07analytics extensions per site so this is

26:09nice so previously

26:10what happened is you actually got the

26:13ability to add a different analytics

26:15extension for each site

26:17what this is saying is that each site can

26:20now have multiple analytics extensions this

26:22means you can

26:23run two instances of python three instances

26:26of r and you can even add Einstein

26:28discovery because

26:29that's of course a salesforce thing that's

26:31going to be in there so this is nice to

26:33have for example

26:34if the finance team runs our server but

26:36they run a specific version with their own

26:38specific code

26:39you can add it into the site and run that

26:42next to the data science team who has a

26:44python server or

26:45whatever or another r server in a different

26:48version it's all going to be possible so i

26:50need

26:50to i need to i need to brush up because i

26:52haven't done python r in ages and so

26:54testing this is going

26:55to be good fun so i think i need to start

26:57creating some sort of instances that this

26:59can be tested with

27:00next one data freshness improvements uh use

27:03the hyper api and rest api to improve the

27:07data

27:07freshness interesting to build solutions

27:09that connect tableau more efficiently with

27:11a variety

27:12of data freshness technologies and use it

27:14for operational monitoring and analytics

27:16scenarios

27:17you can add push updates to extract files

27:20through the rest api or hyper api on table

27:23au server online

27:24to enable more flexibility efficiency and

27:26ultimately improve the freshness of your

27:28data so

27:28let me try and explain this in english what

27:31it's basically saying is i think they've

27:34allowed

27:35tableau or they've allowed an api to

27:36basically tell tableau when to refresh

27:38something or it's

27:41allowing tableau to basically accept

27:43updated data now i'm not sure which way

27:45which one of those or

27:46if it's both because the hyper api is

27:48essentially a way for um creating hyper

27:51files and loading that

27:52hyper file into tableau and the rest api is

27:54a way of controlling tableau service so for

27:57me i think

27:58the rest api here is going to be what's

28:00going to trigger a refresh and i think the

28:02hyper api is

28:03going to be what allows you to basically

28:05send data to an extract and then have it

28:07added to an extract

28:09so this is going to be interesting to see

28:11but i think the key thing here is actually

28:13um you can

28:14now push updates so this means you don't

28:16have to have a server running with extracts

28:18uh you know

28:19on a schedule hoping to catch the latest

28:21data you can essentially refresh the data

28:24as soon as you

28:25know it's fresh so you can run your etl

28:27process when it's done essentially boom you

28:30push an update

28:31to the data sources and it's up to date at

28:32that time that also means that the update

28:34date that

28:35people see is actually accurate because

28:37that's actually when the process run not

28:39just when the

28:40extract run which is sometimes sort of a

28:42confusing thing people think the extract

28:44ran and so therefore

28:45the data is fresh well no that doesn't mean

28:47the data is fresh that just means it took a

28:49snapshot

28:49at that time so it's a really important

28:51distinction to be aware of and with tableau

28:54okay next up

28:55support for owalt and openid connect in the

28:58connector sdk so i literally don't know

29:01what

29:01that means you know sometimes this happens

29:04i come across something and i just i just

29:06have no clue

29:07how to translate it extend the native owalt

29:09service and connect to sdk to consume

29:12customer

29:13provided configurations i i have nothing on

29:16this i'm really hoping someone at tableau

29:18or if you

29:19know what this means in the comments please

29:21be the one to educate me because um i i've

29:24just

29:24don't know what's going on here and my h

29:26unch here is i can sort of try and give an

29:28educated guess

29:30and see if it's close um owalt is an

29:33authentication protocol in one way openid

29:37um openid connect

29:39i think openid is another way of authent

29:41icating what i don't understand is um extend

29:44the native

29:45owalt service and connect sdk to customer

29:48provided our configurations i just don't

29:51know what this

29:52means i i think it means you can build your

29:55own authentication processes around this

29:59connector

30:00sdk so basically when you go and build a

30:03native connector for tableau through this s

30:07dk you can

30:08bring in your authentication mechanisms

30:11into that sdk essentially hope essentially

30:14meaning the

30:15person doesn't have to log in i think that

30:17's what it means if that's right then let me

30:19know if not

30:20please correct me in the comments below um

30:23i love humbling moments like that where you

30:26just realize

30:26you don't know everything about tablet you

30:28've got to go out and learn more so this

30:30this is what

30:31happens um writable field descriptions oh

30:34this is nice this is very nice so um edit

30:37field edit

30:38field descriptions from lineage pages okay

30:40so this is in the data catalog again this

30:42is an add-on for

30:43tableau um server or tablet online um

30:46similar to how you can update table column

30:48descriptions you

30:49can now update published data source field

30:52descriptions instead of having to republish

30:54the

30:55data source every time simply click on a

30:57field name and edit button to add change or

30:59remove the

31:00description cool i think i'll have to see

31:02that when when we see it there's a nice

31:04screenshot here that

31:05shows what that is so that's going to be

31:07nice to see um bulk scoring in prep web

31:10altering and prep

31:11conductor this is interesting so what is

31:14bulk scoring um write mr predictions scores

31:17from

31:18einstein discovery okay this is an einstein

31:20discovery feature i kind of wish they led

31:22with

31:22that einstein discovery bounce scoring

31:24would have been i think a nicer title um

31:26directly into your

31:28data set in tableau prep web altering and

31:30tablet prep conductor so this essentially

31:32means you can't

31:32really use this unless well this this is

31:35just for salesforce data you can't use e

31:37instein discovery

31:38and non-salesforce data and so um yeah it's

31:41as simple as that and once you've got your

31:44einstein

31:44model running the scoring is essentially

31:47going to be running on that and data and

31:49therefore this

31:50prediction is now available in prep and

31:52prep conductor as well which is kind of

31:55cool and prep

31:56conductor just allows you to schedule a

31:57tableau prep flow so prep conductor being

31:59able to do it

32:00is just as important as you being able to

32:03do it and uh yourself now the interesting

32:06thing here is

32:07it says bulk scoring in prep web authoring

32:10but it doesn't say prep desktop so that

32:13that's a small

32:14detail there that nearly got me i bulk

32:16scoring in prep web authoring and prep

32:19conductor maybe it's

32:20already in prep desktop but that doesn't i

32:22have to find out more about that that's an

32:25interesting one

32:26um i'll come back to that one once it's

32:28released but yeah um essentially i know

32:31what the feature

32:31is but i'm just wondering why not prep

32:33desktop i'm trying to think if there's a

32:34reason in my head

32:36it's not coming to me so we'll have to sort

32:38of check it out as and when that's ready to

32:40go okay

32:41bulk rename in prep oh my lord wow this oh

32:45god i can't tell you how many times i've

32:49renamed fields

32:51in prep manually like let's get into this a

32:55little bit more okay so salesforce requires

32:59tableau

33:00everyone suddenly thinks ah yes salesforce

33:03data in tableau is going to be so much

33:05better no

33:08have you ever connected to salesforce data

33:10source have you ever understood how many

33:12columns exist in

33:14the salesforce data source by the way

33:16pointless columns a lot of them and yeah

33:19when you need to

33:21use them you need to literally sit there

33:23and spend time going through each and every

33:25one of them now

33:26where this bulk rename really comes into

33:28effect especially with salesforce is when

33:30you connect to

33:32tables that have the same field okay and

33:36this is sort of not an obvious problem once

33:39you sort of

33:39think about it but when you dig into some

33:41of the structures that salesforce has

33:43around objects and

33:44fields you start to understand that some

33:46things are reused time and time and time

33:49again and the

33:50typical thing you do in analytics is you

33:52bring all these things together so an

33:54example is you might

33:55have a set of tables that matches and in

33:58activities in different stages and for each

34:01stage you have

34:02the same set of column names because each

34:04stage is like a process and it goes through

34:06a bunch of

34:07things and then it goes to the next stage

34:09and then it goes through another bunch of

34:10things but the

34:11column structure the field names might

34:13actually all be the same but if you're

34:15bringing these

34:16things through you might have three

34:17separate tables stage one stage two stage

34:20three so what

34:20do you do well you want to put a prefix to

34:23each of those tables and the fields in

34:25those tables to say

34:26hey this came from stage one this came from

34:28stage two and you couldn't do that and so

34:31here we are

34:31man this this to me why is this at the

34:34bottom of the page this this is this is the

34:37headline feature

34:38of 2021.2 honestly this is this is the

34:41biggest feature of 2021.2 um so yeah i'm

34:45just so happy

34:46about this i haven't even read the

34:47description and i'm happy just to hear the

34:49sound of it coming

34:51even if it doesn't come i know that it's

34:53being worked on this is it's just so good

34:55oh my gosh

34:57i'll stop i'll stop i'll stop being

34:58emotional okay with bulk rename you can now

35:00rename multiple

35:01fields at one time in prep builder and prep

35:04web altering rather than individually

35:06changing each

35:06field name you see you can now add remove

35:09rename a prefix at the start of a field

35:12name and add

35:13remove rename a suffix at the end of a

35:15field name as well as do pattern matching

35:18for find and

35:18replace within a field name what is this oh

35:21my god where's this been where has this

35:24been all my

35:25life honestly whoever's built this at table

35:28au thank you because i know you've been

35:30hearing

35:31the complaints endlessly i know you've been

35:33getting emails going why isn't this

35:35possible

35:35i know there's tons of tableau forum posts

35:38saying why isn't this possible but hey it's

35:41finally here

35:42i just hope it works exactly as advertised

35:44and isn't buggy that's that's just my only

35:47kicker

35:47there so thank you thank you whoever's

35:49built this at tableau you're all amazing

35:51you know that

35:52um i'm just so happy to see this one

35:54feature this is this is this is huge right

35:56next one sap hana

35:58performance improvements default hana bind

36:01variables support um is now enabled by

36:04default

36:04okay bind variables allow hana to root

36:07correctly in a multi-node hana environment

36:10okay and allow

36:11for plan cache reuse for hana environment

36:14it's a lot of the a lot of hana environment

36:17in this

36:18sentence in addition maximize tableau's use

36:21of hana's bind variable capability when

36:23connecting

36:24via jdbc so again i have no clue what this

36:27means so if you are sap hana experts and uh

36:31you know

36:31what this means please let me know in the

36:33comments below all right uh we're nearly

36:35there tableau

36:36mobile for intune android okay so let's

36:39look at this tableau mobile for intune is a

36:43new app that

36:44provides a quick and secure way to view

36:46analyze and leverage the data in the

36:48organization the new

36:50app includes a newer design that is faster

36:53and more intuitive an improved search and

36:55browsing

36:56experience consistent with tableau server

36:58and tableau online and enhance offline

37:00capabilities

37:00that are quick to load and offer richness

37:03and interactivity interactivity for visual

37:06izations

37:06so what is this what is intune let me

37:10google this so intune android let's see oh

37:15that's the wrong

37:16thing let's try again intune android

37:22interesting setup intune enrollment okay so

37:29i think it's maybe

37:31like an mdm mobile device management is

37:35what that stands for um yeah i think i

37:39think it might be like

37:40a an mdm server so tableau mobile for int

37:44une on android means um for intune is a new

37:48app provides

37:49a quick and secure way to visualize analyze

37:51i think that's what it is i think it's a m

37:53dm sort

37:54of layer or something but to be honest

37:55again i don't know what this is so we'll

37:57have to find out

37:58once the documentation is out uh last one

38:01amazon sage maker for tableau quick start

38:04so

38:04when it says quick start this is normally

38:08this is normally an aws terminology so am

38:11azon sage maker

38:12is a service by amazon and essentially this

38:15is for tableau so i bet if you click on

38:17this we'll go to

38:19the sage maker page yes that's right and it

38:21's actually being supported by interworks

38:22which is a

38:24tableau partner but they're also an aws

38:26partner and tableau is also an aws partner

38:29it's a weird

38:30world of world of partners but essentially

38:32um they've got this quick start guide that

38:35shows

38:35you how to basically use amazon sage maker

38:37alongside your tableau instance so this

38:39there's

38:40actually this nice diagram here so um if we

38:42click on this diagram you can see this is

38:44your tableau

38:45environment and essentially this quick

38:47start creates like a a place in the aws

38:50cloud that

38:50allows your tableau environment to

38:52basically leverage machine learning

38:55capabilities um

38:56through the cloud and it's sort of you can

38:58see sage maker here on the right and then

39:00you've got

39:00a whole bunch of things that are in here

39:02and i think this is where probably inter

39:04works or tableau

39:05have worked together to sort of build this

39:07middle bit because without this middle bit

39:09you can't

39:09really get to sage maker and amazon provide

39:12sage maker they provide a whole bunch of

39:14different

39:15services standalone but you've got to be

39:17able to port data into them and so that's

39:19exactly

39:20um i think what this is allowing for so

39:22this is pretty pretty cool so if we go back

39:24and you've

39:24got this quick start guide essentially what

39:27happens with these um quick starts if you

39:29click on the

39:30view deployment guide it walks through

39:32essentially what you need to do and this

39:34was written in february

39:362021 by holt calda at interworks and uh i

39:40can't say this shivansh singh and tony

39:43building aws

39:45quick start team and i think tableau maybe

39:48been involved somewhere in there so mainly

39:50an interworks

39:51and aws thing um but yeah this is pretty

39:54much the guide of how to set it up i don't

39:57know too much

39:58about sage maker all i know i know is it's

40:00used for machine learning um in in aws

40:03cloud um we can

40:04actually just google it make sure we know

40:06this sage maker aws let's find out very

40:09quickly let's

40:10get the one line uh summary from amazon

40:12what do they say it is machine learning for

40:15every data

40:15scientist and developer cool there you go

40:17done you now have machine learning and data

40:20science

40:20for every developer through tableau um but

40:23there you go i think that's pretty much

40:25every feature

40:26if i just go back a few pages here we'll

40:28actually get back to the coming soon page

40:30uh i think i

40:31completely lost myself uh i think maybe it

40:33's here no let's just do this let's just

40:35type coming soon

40:36i think it will come up coming to america

40:39too god who's seen that so here we are am

40:42azon sage maker

40:43was the last thing on this page and so we

40:45're pretty much done with that um a whole

40:47nice sort

40:48of world of features how do i feel about

40:50the release generally um i think i feel

40:52pretty good

40:53i think this is nice the previous release

40:56was a bit salesforce heavy and um if it's

40:59salesforce

40:59heavy it means it doesn't have as much

41:01application if you don't use salesforce

41:03every day but then

41:05again tableau is obviously salesforce

41:07product now so we've got to come to expect

41:09that um i like the

41:12spatial improvements area and spatial are

41:15pretty cool i love this literally it's a

41:18small quality

41:18of life improvements that you know are

41:21going to save you 15 minutes when you try

41:23and use them

41:24again in the future that you celebrate the

41:26most right just things that make you happy

41:29that that

41:29is what um you know bulk rename is going to

41:32do for me in this particular release and i

41:35like to see all

41:36the other improvements these are all sort

41:38of nudges in the right direction this is

41:40sort of

41:40another thing sort of generally i'm

41:42realizing you know it's really hard for

41:44tableau to

41:45bring out big hitters now because um you

41:48know they've got a lot of users on their

41:50platform

41:51who are going to be unhappy if you

41:53radically change things so a lot of the

41:54improvements are

41:56sort of small nudges there's still plenty

41:57of places where there's big improvements

41:59still to be had

42:00um and i think those just take time so we

42:02shouldn't expect to see that every release

42:04and of course this is probably the release

42:06that they were working on during covid so

42:09um i'm actually quite impressed that this

42:11has managed to sort of come out in this

42:13period

42:14um if you think about software in general

42:16it takes probably six to twelve months to

42:19develop it and

42:20um you have to go through probably a year's

42:23worth of um you know research and

42:25understanding and user

42:27sort of context in order to prepare the

42:28features before they end up on the

42:30developer's table

42:31because you don't want a developer to start

42:32building something that's not been thought

42:34through so you do need to have a strong

42:36vision of how this is going to work and

42:38that starts probably

42:39a year and a half to two years before it

42:41actually gets released so everything you

42:44see here was

42:44probably in mid-development last year and

42:47is just being polished off for this year

42:50essentially it's

42:51on the on the cutting room floor ready to

42:53go out so that's another piece of context

42:55to be aware of

42:56and with this release this is probably what

42:58tab we're working on most of last year and

43:00of course

43:00we've still got more things to come for the

43:02rest of this year that hopefully we'll

43:04finish off this

43:05great year of releases that we hope to see

43:07so yeah that's been it that's been a long

43:09one um

43:10i just thought i'd talk through that and

43:11get you guys up to speed i'm going to try

43:13and include

43:14links for everything below um i'm recording

43:17this on a monday and so i'm hoping i can

43:19get this out

43:20on a tuesday but failing that i'm really

43:22also hoping that tableau don't release the

43:25product

43:26before i release this video so if that

43:28happens then this will have to do as a

43:30preview until i

43:31get some time to actually record videos for

43:34the new one i'm actually moving um you know

43:36moving

43:37property at the moment so um for the next

43:39two weeks and it's going to be a little bit

43:41tricky

43:41i've literally left my studio up um this

43:44audio is awful because i haven't got my

43:46sound pads up at

43:47the moment so yeah we'll have to sort of

43:49make do with what we have and i will try

43:51and get through

43:52new release as much as i can and they did

43:54do a pre-release this time so i do have the

43:56software

43:57but i didn't have the guide so god we did

43:59get a little walkthrough but there's no

44:02guide telling

44:03you exactly what works and what doesn't

44:05work and what to test and what not to test

44:07so it's like

44:08can't i have it but can't i don't know what

44:10to do with it so yeah it's just the way it

44:12is we'll have

44:12to wait until this release and then we can

44:14do a proper deep dive another thing i'd

44:16love to know

44:17is um would you be interested in seeing a

44:20review of each release i've thought about

44:22this for last

44:23year i thought about doing a release for

44:252020 all of 2020 combined and i started

44:28doing that and i

44:28realized that's a mammoth task and when i

44:31talk about review i'm talking about a

44:33general review

44:34where i talk about from from a tableau user

44:36perspective and you know how the release

44:39was what

44:39things that ticked off what things it didn

44:42't take off but this also means i'm gonna

44:44have to talk to

44:44people about what they were expecting and

44:46what they were having challenges with and

44:48whether

44:48tableau really met that challenge so if you

44:50'd be interested in review let me know in

44:52the comments

44:53below especially if you don't use tableau

44:55if you just uh you know onlookers as it was

44:57it were just

44:57interested to know what's going on and you

44:59'd love to see a review you've made it to

45:01the end of this

45:02video so you're definitely up for some

45:04longer form content so let me know what you

45:06think of something

45:07like a half an hour 45 minute review of

45:10tableau not necessarily for each release

45:12but maybe each

45:14yearly uh sort of cut point so at the end

45:16of the year january february right before g

45:19artner drops

45:19their bomb on you know the gartner magic

45:22quadrant we release a review of what's

45:24going on let me know

45:25what you think about that i've been tim

45:27thanks for watching and i'll catch you in

45:28the next video

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