24 Can’t-Miss Tableau Features Released in 2024

We’re counting down 24 Tableau features released in 2024 that you can't miss—join us here as we reveal the features!  

As we look back on 2024, one thing is clear: AI and automation took center stage, transforming how we see, understand, and act on data. From the debut of Tableau Pulse to powerful integrations with AI, this year’s releases made insights more actionable than ever. But innovation didn’t stop at AI—across the board, Tableau introduced features designed to help organizations drive better business outcomes. Ready to explore the highlights? Let’s take a closer look at 24 standout Tableau features that shaped 2024—and discover how they can elevate your work.

24. Tableau and Data Cloud

23. New Connectors with Tableau

22. Custom Functions Explorer

21. Accessibility Improvements

20. Revealing next!

Create segments in Data Cloud directly from your visual data exploration within Tableau. Visual Segment Creation to Salesforce Data Cloud provides you with a streamlined way to explore the data from your Data Model Objects (DMOs), identify candidate audience segments, and push those audience segments directly in Data Cloud from your Web Authoring session.

Tableau added connectivity to support a streamlined connection to new data sources including the Tableau and Databricks Delta Sharing connector.

Tableau Delta Sharing:

• Provides a powerful solution for sharing data to external organizations, fostering collaboration with partners and customers
• Shares live data across platforms, eliminating the need for replication
• Improves data governance with centralized access management
• Empowering teams to access and analyze data from multiple sources helps create a more holistic view of their business

Seamlessly integrate custom functionality into your Tableau visualizations without manual communication or external documentation. When analysts need to leverage deployed models or functions, they can open the custom functions modal, easily discover functions and their specificities, copy the syntax to use a particular function, and seamlessly implement in downstream visualizations.

Explore, navigate, and interact with data visualizations, dashboards, and stories without relying on your mouse. Visualization Navigation, or Viz Navigation for Text Tables, introduces a new mode of data exploration that doesn’t rely on mouse interactivity. Straight from the Community Ideas Forum, you can use keyboard navigation and assistive technology to navigate the marks of a text table. If you are using a screen reader, you will hear the information for each tooltip. Viz Navigation for Text Tables gives authors a way to improve the accessibility of dashboards. For example, you can create a dashboard that has text tables as supplementary visualizations to more complex visualizations, enabling exploration of the data without needing to use the View Data experience.