All the Tableau products (Reader, Public and Desktop) will all be available for Mac OS. Here are the highlights of this improvement: The old days of having another computer or even a virtual machine running Windows to be able to work with Tableau Desktop are gone. And guess what? Some of them are using Mac OS based computers!! From version 8.2 they will be able to analyse and discover data using Tableau directly from their preferred platform: Mac OS. The user base of Tableau is made of a heterogeneous group of people. Provision Sites with Site Export/Import. There are many improvements on the server side, mainly focused in simplifying the server administration. This engine allows you to zoom down into 16-steps of zoom, WORLWIDE! You can check the visual impact of such changes by comparing the screenshots below: The data content used to create the maps is including the latest set of data from OpenStreetMap. Tableau is improving the visualization in maps, one of the most powerful capabilities of the product. “Print as PDF” and you will save the Story Telling object as PDF showing each step in a separate page of the PDF document.Ĭlick on “Window” > “Presentation Mode” or press F7 to show the Story Telling object in full screen as it can be done with dashboards. To insert them into the Story, just drag & drop them into the right pane. The sheets and dashboards are displayed as on the left pane of the board as in the previous versions of Tableau. Embed sheets and dashboards into Story boards. You can also create a new Story by right clicking on the Analysis/Dashboards/Stories tabs and selecting “New Story”. Proceed to the following steps in order to create a Story with Story Telling:Īdd a new Story by clicking on “Story” > “New Story” in the Menu bar. Each Story Point or step in the Story Telling is showing the user an analysis or even an entire dashboard. The user can jump into that step without the need of visualising the previous ones. However the user is not forced to go through every single step to get to the analysis he or she is most interested in. The predefined path is defined by the Story Points, a sequence of steps that the user can walk through as he or she explores the data. Story Telling provides the user a brand new experience in data analysis as it guides the user through different analysis following a predefined path. Google BigQuery: Native support provided. OAuth: Support for, Google Analytics and Google BigQuery. SAP HANA: Variables and input parameters. Microsoft Excel and Text files: Improved detection of field types, larger amount of columns, Time type seconds recognition, percentages as number recognition…. There are improvements in the following connections sources too: Having said this, news in data connection do not finish here. Extract: Queries will be done to an extract of the data instead of the real data source.īelow you can find two screenshots so that you can compare this functionality between Tableau 8.1 and 8.2:. Live: Queries will be done to the data source to retrieve the data. Note that you will be able to choose the connection type. Click on “Go to Worksheet” to start working on the new analysis: Once you have done all the above, click on this button to start designing your analysis. Verify if the joins are correct in the Preview: Check the query results to validate the joins. Set the joins: Click on the joins and set the join type as well as the matching columns. Select the tables: Drag and drop the selected table into the canvas on the right. You must select the data source type and then fill in the appropriate details to connect to the selected data source. Select the data source: Nothing has changed here. It’s a completely redesigned data connectivity view that allows the designer to build different types of joins (inner, left, right, full outer) between tables in a visual and very intuitive way. This new feature will greatly simplify how we are currently building data extract queries. It’s worth spending 5’ reading this article. 
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In this article I’m introducing you some of the hottest functionalities in Tableau 8.2: Lucky you to be reading this article, as you will have the privilege to read about some of the new features being included in the new release. Good news for all Tableau fans! The new release, version 8.2, is now available! We have been selected to participate in the testing program of Tableau 8.2 Beta.
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