Tableau recently announced a new technology, Tableau Pulse, which is a culmination of various technologies. This innovative solution stands to transform the way users interact with data, offering a more direct, context-rich approach to analytics.

Tableau Pulse serves as a landing page, a destination for users who typically start their analytics journey not from a data source, but a dashboard. It presents users with the metrics they're most interested in, thus tailoring the analytics experience to each user's needs.

Creating a metric in Tableau Pulse is straightforward. An author, someone knowledgeable about the data source, uses an interface to define the metrics they wish to build, including relevant contexts and time periods. Once established, the metric, or "Pulse," becomes available in the Tableau Pulse interface.

What makes this feature unique is its integration with Tableau's GPT technology, which can examine the specific metric and provide additional information and context, augmenting the initial metric with insightful details. Although this is a rough guide to how it operates and the technology hasn't officially been released, the concept seems promising.

The interface designed for building these metrics is highly accessible, making it more user-friendly than Tableau Desktop. A significant feature, often overlooked, is the portability of these metrics. They can be embedded in dashboards, emails, Slack, and Tableau servers, making them highly versatile.

Tableau Pulse also leverages Tableau GPT, which was announced at the same conference. This technology aids in asking smarter, context-aware questions. It can suggest questions or respond to user queries, generating charts and stories that lead users to Tableau Pulse. This feature has potential to greatly enhance the user experience, making it easier to find relevant, meaningful insights.

One of the most intriguing aspects of Tableau Pulse is its capacity to handle open-ended questions. In a demo, a query about a product called "AirFryer" was made, and the system generated a relevant chart. If this feature functions as demonstrated, it could be a game-changer. By examining the metadata of the questions being asked, analysts and admins could gain a richer understanding of the data sources they need to prioritize and the data they should be collecting.

In summary, Tableau Pulse presents an exciting new set of features in data analytics. With its user-friendly interface, tailored metrics, question-answering capabilities, and more, Tableau Pulse could indeed be a revolution in the world of data analytics.

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0:00 Intro
0:15 Metrics today
0:57 What is Tableau Pulse
4:13 My Thoughts & Opinions


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