The audience Tableau is going after is simple i.e. any spreadsheet. The alternatives are Excel or Numbers for iPad, but these tools were not built for visualization functionality.

Data visualization value proposition: Excel is one of the most affordable and no-frills data visualization tools available today. This makes it one of the best beginning tools for businesses ...

In comes Tableau. The Seattle-based data visualization firm lets business users interact with and build their own dashboards instead of getting bogged down in Excel or using a traditional BI tool ...

Called Tableau Vizable, the new iPad app was demoed yesterday at the Tableau user conference in Las Vegas. Free to download, the app can handle data in popular formats like CSV and Excel, allowing ...

He knew Tableau was good on visualization, but they wanted to do self service, he explained. “They could go to our enterprise data warehouse and insert select into their own set of tables.

While we (the authors) do not endorse any specific data visualization software, we used Tableau to create these sample data visualizations to show specific capabilities that may be useful for audit ...

The Air Force Cost Analysis Agency (AFCAA) offers multiple examples of data visualization tools being actively used for cost analysis, including the Air Force Total Ownership Cost (AFTOC) program ...

Last week, I agreed to a briefing about Tableau 8.0, the company's latest release and what they say is their most exciting news of the year. Well, I am unimpressed. The Tableau software is robust ...

Its free platform, Tableau Public, boasts over 60,000 users—people in business, academia, government, and journalism—and publishes about 5,000 shareable data “workbooks” each week, the ...