Data Tools Are Hammers. Tableau Want To Give You A Nail Gun

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Data Tools Are Hammers. Tableau Want To Give You A Nail Gun
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Tableau unveiled new data tools for the rest of us in San Diego yesterday, mostly powered by AI. Hyped-up product developers showed ways to plan vacations with data almost automatically or create complex-looking visualizations of data about the art they love with just a few clicks. Executives talked about APIs and shared dimensions and composable data sources and new integrations with Microsoft Teams, plus how “data helps us make the world a better place.

Building that nail gun is no easy task in today’s data-rich organizations. One that I talked to which is using one of the new Tableau AI innovations, called Einstein Copilot, says that his organization built a data lake with over 30 terabytes of data: too much to be accessible by any standard, quick, or inexpensive means. After creating snapshots of the data in Snowflake, the company enabled access via Copilot.

But there is a significant challenge that precedes data insights. Better access to data is not the full solution, if the base data itself is flawed.

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