タブロー NLP Data Visualizations
Recently, my team’s head of analytics Hitoshi Nakagawa / 中川 斉 / came back from a Tableau user conference all wakuwaku about a new tool which enables users to explore their data using natural language.
The NLP feature is called “Ask Data” and it is available in Tableau 2019.1 beta.
Although Tableau describes it as a new feature, I believe it is more than that.
This type of ask-a-question and get-a-visualization makes it easy for anyone to refine, change, save views from a given data set.
No knowledge of data structures or descriptive statistics is needed. Only interest.
The hoped-for effect is that data scientists can shift their focus to stickier, more-challenging work.
Tableau had me the first time I saw it because it occupies a useful space, somewhere between super-complex data imaging and Excel charts.
Using NLP is an interesting way to renew the experience and to add new users.
Here are a few related links:
https://www.tableau.com/ja-jp/about/blog/2018/10/announcing-20191-beta-96449
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_language_processing
