Tableau’s Einstein Copilot

Tableau’s Einstein Copilot: Streamlining Data Analysis with AI

Tableau, on its mission to empower individuals in comprehending and interpreting their data for over two decades, has found success thanks to data analysts. These professionals, integral to organizations fostering a data-centric culture, capture business requirements, prepare data, and craft data content for end users.

While data analysis and data-driven decision-making have become commonplace in organizational discourse, not everyone with a stake in data utilization holds the title of “analyst.” Many individuals, those of us at Tectonic included, leverage data daily to make informed decisions. The advent of generative AI presents a compelling opportunity to bring transformative benefits to analytics. Businesses are keen to embrace generative AI due to its time-saving capabilities, faster insights, and the potential to empower analysts further through an AI assistant, allowing them to focus on delivering high-quality, data-driven insights.

Facilitating this transformation is Einstein Copilot in Tableau.

Tableau’s Einstein Copilot

Einstein Copilot in Tableau harnesses generative AI and statistical analysis to understand the context of your data. It creates and suggests relevant business questions, kickstarting your analysis. As a smart, conversational assistant for Tableau users, Einstein Copilot automates data curation—organizing and integrating data from diverse sources—by generating calculations and metadata descriptions.

Einstein Copilot fills data gaps, enhances analysis with synthetic datasets in the absence of real data, anticipates outcomes through predictive analytics, and ensures data privacy by generating non-traceable data for analysis. It upholds the promise of generative AI, offering an efficient, insightful, and ethical approach to data analytics—an intelligent assistant seamlessly integrated into the Tableau suite for users at all levels of expertise.

Accelerating Insights with Ease

With thousands of features, Tableau simplifies the data analysis process. Einstein Copilot, through in-product assistance, allows users to ask questions in natural language. From data preparation to writing calculations and formatting worksheets and dashboards in line with company brand guidelines, Einstein Copilot automates many time-consuming, repetitive tasks, boosting analyst productivity and speeding up time-to-insights.

Jumpstarting Data Exploration

Einstein Copilot is an invaluable tool for both data-savvy end users and professionals. It enables users to ask in-depth questions about data insights without requiring intricate Tableau technical knowledge. In the worksheet, recommended questions based on the data source’s metadata facilitate data analysis. Einstein Copilot’s step-by-step guidance aids new data professionals in learning Tableau effectively while offering opportunities for both novice and experienced users to enhance their skills.

Enhancing Visualization Quality

Einstein Copilot provides built-in visual best practice guidance, enabling users to format visualizations using simple natural language prompts and simplifying complex, time-consuming tasks. Crucially, human involvement remains a vital part of the process, ensuring thorough checks before accepting any proposed responses. Whether exploring data or creating dashboards, users can confidently navigate each step with assistance always available.

Privacy, Security, and Accuracy

Built with privacy, security, and accuracy in mind, Einstein Copilot assures users of a reliable AI-powered assistant. Future updates will introduce Pulse Metrics generation, Slack integration for sharing insights, and additional context to insights before sharing them.

Einstein Copilot in Tableau is set to be generally available in Summer ’24 with Tableau 2024.2. For those interested in participating in the pilot, a form is available for sign-up in Spring ’24. Witness the transformative potential of Einstein Copilot in Tableau through the demo showcasing its ability to revolutionize analytics.

By Tectonic’s Salesforce Marketing Consultant, Shannan Hearne