Learning AI Tools in Tableau

Chapter 2. Getting Started with Tableau Pulse

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Now that you’ve had a history lesson on Tableau and AI in analytics under your belt, it’s time to dive in to getting hands-on experience with Tableau Pulse. In this chapter, I’ll take you step by step through everything you’ll need to know to get your first Pulse metric ready. I’ll walk you through key concepts and definitions, and you’ll see detailed images to help you navigate the platform.

Purpose and Key Definitions

I recently saw a presentation on Tableau Pulse about what its purpose was. The presenter said that Pulse was designed to answer the 20% of questions that users ask 80% of the time. This is a common trope in data analytics, the Pareto principle, that helps to give an understanding of how Pulse fits into the Tableau ecosystem. To unpack this 80/20 principle a bit further, the speaker posited that end users tend to ask the same small subset of questions (the 20%) a majority ...