Tableau update uses AI to increase speed to insight – TechCrunch

Tableau was acquired by Salesforce earlier this year for $15.7 billion, but long before that, the company had been working on its Fall update, and today it announced several new tools including a new feature called'Explain Data' that uses AI to get to insight quickly. "What Explain Data does is it moves users from understanding what happened to why it might have happened by automatically uncovering and explaining what's going on in your data. So what we've done is we've embedded a sophisticated statistical engine in Tableau, that when launched automatically analyzes all the data on behalf of the user, and brings up possible explanations of the most relevant factors that are driving a particular data point," Tableau chief product officer, Francois Ajenstat explained. He added that what this really means is that it saves users time by automatically doing the analysis for them, and It should help them do better analysis by removing biases and helping them dive deep into the data in an automated fashion. Ajenstat says this is a major improvement in that previously users would have do all of this work manually.