Tableau – Q4 2024

Version Updates

Usually Tableau releases 3 updates per year. In this blog post we’ll go through some of the features added in the third release of 2024 (2024.3).

1. Tableau Cloud Manager

With the new TCM, it will now be easier to manage your environments (sites), users and licenses in your cloud environment.

2. Table Viz Extension

Aside from the default ‘Text Table’, a new table graph is now developed and available as a Viz Extension:
https://exchange.tableau.com/products/1041

This new table visual will have conditional formatting, search (within columns) and the possibility to have ‘visuals’ in your table cells (eg: small bar charts).

3. Spatial Parameters

Parameters can be used to let the end user impact calculations that are happening in a dashboard are make a dashboard dynamic based on a users’ selection. A similar feature, called spatial parameters, has been released to have the same behavior also possible within spatial objects. (eg: locations, paths, regions,… in a map)

4. Visualized Data Model

To get an understanding of how the data tables in your model are related it. For your Published Data Sources Tableau will visually show you your data model.

5. Google Font Support

Google fonts are now available in Tableau Cloud (eg: Lato, Noto Sans,…)

6. Tableau Pulse Improvements

As mentioned in the previous blog post a bunch of improvements have been made to Tableau Pulse:

• Seasonal trends
• Mobile improvements
• Pulse metrics in dashboards
• Currency symbols
• Follower count per metric
• …

7. Tableau app for Microsoft Teams

Directly from within MS you can access, share and interaction with Tableau (dashboards, Pulse,…)

More details for the other features of the update can be found on the official Tableau website:

https://www.tableau.com/2024-3-features

or

https://www.tableau.com/products/new-features

Click here to see the entire list

Upcoming

At the moment it is not entirely clear on what will be worked on in 2025. For sure, we can expect more enhancements to the ‘AI’ components of Tableau like Einstein, Pulse, etc.

And, of course, I’ll share the features  announced for 2025 during the Tableau Conference again:

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