If Data Could Talk

As Dashboards That Deliver is released, I wonder: do we still need a book about dashboards in 2025? Hasn't #GenAI and #artificialintelligence removed the need for them? What should #data #analyts be prioritising?

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Trump's tariffs lead to visually striking line charts. These are gifts to political cartoonists and commentators. Ella Baron from The Guardian uses a technique similar to one from 2022 when the Brits tanked their economy.

#cartoon #usa #politics #trump #politicalnews #america

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This chart from The Register is confusing. Is it therefore a failure or a success? #dataviz #analytics #datastorytelling
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With Google Gemini 2.0 and multimodel livestreaming you can share you screen and learn Tableau. With a natural conversation you can get step-by-step instructions to build vizzes and learn your way around a the interface. It's incredible.


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Deck the halls with Tableau tips LIVE! Tune in for a holiday-themed #DataPlusTV deep-dive as Andy Cotgreave, Mark Bradbourne, and David Kelly break down holiday TV data from IMDb.

Join us LIVE on LinkedIn on December 5 at 9:00 a.m.

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Can #Claude #Sonnet 3.5(new) do data storytelling as well as a human? My benchmark has always been Simon Scarr's Iraq's Bloody Toll chart, and my remake that reframed the story.

In just 40 minutes, I got incredibly far. I am, quite frankly, blown away.

If #AI #datastorytelling is this good now, where will we be in 1, 2, 5 years?

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Tableau has just launched Einstein Copilot For Tableau and here's my deep dive. I look at how to get started, different prompt types, creating calculations and much more.

I also explain what to happen if Copilot does something unexpected. This is Generative AI, after all, and we all know it can't always interpret intents correctly. I share some tips to keep moving forwards, but also want to emphasise that you can use the feedback buttons to let us know what is and what isn't working.

00:00 Introduction
00:41 Wildlife Strikes Data
01:11 Suggested Questions
03:32 Calculations
04:32 Adding fields
05:26 Complex prompts
06:24 Insights!
09:22 Coping with the unexpected
09:56 Right-click and recreate
12:32 Give Tableau feedback
13:51 Outro

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