Tableau

Data Visualization Tool with Endless Possibilities

Narrate Data Story in Style

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Tableau is a data visualization tool used by data scientists and Business intelligence. [Tableau]: Data Visualization Tool with Endless Possibilities is a software which is easy to learn and used for narrating data stories in style. It is easy to deploy and impress business customers through intuitive and self explanatory visualization.

What is Tableau?

Tableau is a powerful software tool to analyze large and complex data sets by user friendly interface. Tableau visualization software program is written in C++ to drag and drop interfaces. Beneath the queries it also uses VizQL language to create visualization graphs in dashboards.

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Advantages of Tableau

• Tableau is end to end solution for data analytics.
• Tableau helps to prepare, visualize, analyze data.
• Tableau dashboards present data-story in a format that has greater reach.
• Tableau is mobile friendly.
• Data has new meaning with Tableau.
• Creativity, thinking and intuition is at its best with Tableau.
• There are endless possibilities to display and analyze data with Tableau.
• Tableau is equally useful for analysts, business intelligence officials, journalists, writers , bloggers , students and teachers who wish to share data patterns and data stories with world.

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Shortcomings of Tableau

• Tableau is good for data visualization with cleaned and curated data and not with uncleaned data.
• Being a new Tool and lesser number of experts, user have to deal with issues themselves and sort it out without external support.
• Tableau lacks data modeling and data dictionary…