“With Ask Data, customers can simply type a question such as, ‘what were my sales this month?’ and Tableau will return an interactive data visualization that they can continue to explore ...

The addition of Ask Data could change how Tableau customers navigate and interact with the analytics software and broaden the base of users within an enterprise.

By leveraging natural language processing and algorithms Tableau is hoping to deliver analytics by gauging a user's intent without knowing data dimensions, measures and structure.

Towards the end of the presentation, a demonstration was provided for Tableau Ask Data, the new natural language query language interface for end users.

Ask Data is available now and comes fully integrated with Tableau Server and Tableau Online, at no additional cost.

At its annual conference in New Orleans, Tableau Software announced its product roadmap featuring “Ask Data,” which leverages natural language processing to enable people to ask questions in an ...