Thank you @DrJuanTaco for your comments. Throwing spaghetti I think is a fair assessment & vocabulary. You're in good company I believe, in your discernment that much of the recent few years' communication around what should be a holistic product vision and narrative has been instead mostly a fractured smattering of disjointed feature announcements. Without a strong and coherent, overarching communication of strategy, as I watch this conversation again now that it's been produced I find myself more convinced by your thoughts and those of @ActionRobert.
I still miss those mindblowing ideas and use cases from Bethany. They really showcased some of the new features of Tableau at the time (LOD of fun with jedi filters, Ready, set, action, How Tableau and Tableau Prep Helped Solve a Personal Life Crisis, and her session introducing the new data model back in TC19). It's interesting to see some of Bethany's materials still appear in TC24 (e.g. the analogy of data modeling as making a french pastry rather than a sandwich in the data modeling 101 session at TC24).
Bethany is the bomb 💣 And I am not sure that anyone in the future could ever fill those shoes. Especially at TC, where she would just rip things up and then stitch them back together again.
Thanks for the recap. I think this conference felt like Tableau was trying to get back to itself after the whole salesforce thing. I do feel like they are sometimes just spitting at the wall to see what sticks, and I'm really tired of AI being pushed harder than a glorified spellcheck. Tableau is really close to being a really good full-stack data analysis suite, especially with the relating of published data sources as a type of no-sql database of sorts. I wish that prep conductor was more integrated as power query is to PowerBI, allowing a workbook based single project that contains all of the ETL, transformations and cleaning required to some visualizations and metrics that could be snipped and shared across the organization easily.
A pointer to the more detailed follow-up discussion, between Keith and Jonathan: Tableau Conference 2024: Product Direction ua-cam.com/video/t3s6oDXg8cc/v-deo.html
I agree with Jonathan, this felt like "Tableau getting its feet under it again". Personally I found the Hands On Sessions more exciting than the Keynote items. I really enjoyed being hands-on with Viz Extensions and Table Extensions. The interesting part about both extensions is that it requires a greater technical expertise (HTML, JS, Python, etc) than a drag and drop interface that greatly reduced the barrier to entry for the end user. Another item I found exciting to see demonstrated was Multi-Fact Analysis in the data pane. I can see many use cases for it and a natural extension of the noodle and meatball interactions we see in relationships. The one caveat here is that end-users expectations of how filters impact the charts may need to be reset as a filter would only be applied to measures that have a connection. Overall, I left the conference feeling invigorated and excited for the future. I'm cautiously optimistic that Tableau is back on the right track.
🙈 Did I say that? I don't recall --- but let's just say it's not a bug, but it's a feature of recording these conversations ad-hoc and without a filter.
This episode is also the premier of our new show intro and theme song. What do you think?
Thank you @DrJuanTaco for your comments. Throwing spaghetti I think is a fair assessment & vocabulary. You're in good company I believe, in your discernment that much of the recent few years' communication around what should be a holistic product vision and narrative has been instead mostly a fractured smattering of disjointed feature announcements. Without a strong and coherent, overarching communication of strategy, as I watch this conversation again now that it's been produced I find myself more convinced by your thoughts and those of @ActionRobert.
I still miss those mindblowing ideas and use cases from Bethany. They really showcased some of the new features of Tableau at the time (LOD of fun with jedi filters, Ready, set, action, How Tableau and Tableau Prep Helped Solve a Personal Life Crisis, and her session introducing the new data model back in TC19). It's interesting to see some of Bethany's materials still appear in TC24 (e.g. the analogy of data modeling as making a french pastry rather than a sandwich in the data modeling 101 session at TC24).
Bethany is the bomb 💣 And I am not sure that anyone in the future could ever fill those shoes. Especially at TC, where she would just rip things up and then stitch them back together again.
Thanks for the recap. I think this conference felt like Tableau was trying to get back to itself after the whole salesforce thing. I do feel like they are sometimes just spitting at the wall to see what sticks, and I'm really tired of AI being pushed harder than a glorified spellcheck. Tableau is really close to being a really good full-stack data analysis suite, especially with the relating of published data sources as a type of no-sql database of sorts. I wish that prep conductor was more integrated as power query is to PowerBI, allowing a workbook based single project that contains all of the ETL, transformations and cleaning required to some visualizations and metrics that could be snipped and shared across the organization easily.
A pointer to the more detailed follow-up discussion, between Keith and Jonathan:
Tableau Conference 2024: Product Direction
ua-cam.com/video/t3s6oDXg8cc/v-deo.html
I agree with Jonathan, this felt like "Tableau getting its feet under it again".
Personally I found the Hands On Sessions more exciting than the Keynote items. I really enjoyed being hands-on with Viz Extensions and Table Extensions. The interesting part about both extensions is that it requires a greater technical expertise (HTML, JS, Python, etc) than a drag and drop interface that greatly reduced the barrier to entry for the end user.
Another item I found exciting to see demonstrated was Multi-Fact Analysis in the data pane. I can see many use cases for it and a natural extension of the noodle and meatball interactions we see in relationships. The one caveat here is that end-users expectations of how filters impact the charts may need to be reset as a filter would only be applied to measures that have a connection.
Overall, I left the conference feeling invigorated and excited for the future. I'm cautiously optimistic that Tableau is back on the right track.
"...have the AI assistant help you with rubbing out the code along the way" -Keith Helfrich
🙈 Did I say that? I don't recall --- but let's just say it's not a bug, but it's a feature of recording these conversations ad-hoc and without a filter.