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Tableau 9.3 - Visualization for novices and professionals alike.
What do you like best about the product?
Tableau allows the user to connect to a variety of data sources, including and not limited to CSV files (i.e. Excel sheets), Statistical file (i.e. R, SPSS), Access and server databases/warehouses such as Hadoop, Amazon Aurora and a Tableau Server. For my work with Tableau, virtually every kind data files can be imported and visualized using a very handy selection of built-in charts, graphics, geographical templates and mathematical models (confidence inferences for example). It's easy to drag and drop the dimensions and measures of your data files and Tableau does the hard job of visualization!
What do you dislike about the product?
Depending on your network capacity, server specifications and your local computer configuration, connecting to a server database can produce a significant delay in building your reports. I notice that Tableau tries to initially download files to cache so it would allow you to populate the measurements and dimensions into the report. However, this certainly takes a longer period of time than just working with a file locally.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I was using Tableau to analyze New York City High School graduation rates and how it corresponds to SAT (Standardized Assessment Test) scores. Tableau allows me to realize certain trends and niches through the stories and reports generated by Tableau.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Tableau offers a trial and I would take advantage of it to see if I can do more to visualize my data. It is relatively simple to learn and use due its relatively easy learning curve. The graphical user interface and drop-and-drag allows novice users to create professional-looking reports and charts without a heavy mathematical or statistical background knowledge. Even for professional data scientists, Tableau has enough advanced models and options to generate the reports that reflects what you want to show and tell.
Simple and Effective
What do you like best about the product?
Tableau Desktop allows me to visualize data that I would have in the past presented in tabular layout. It makes creating additional insights from data that I have so easy. No more will I have to use Microsoft Excel tabs and pivot tables to derive information. The best part is the software is that it is simple and intuitive to use. There is not much you need to know before hand about the tool to create some amazing data visualizations.
What do you dislike about the product?
There is not much to dislike. If I had to be nit picky, I would have to say that although it is easy to use, I do not know the full limitation of what is capable. Each day I learn something new about the tool that makes my life easier. I have also found that complex dashboards tend to need to be performance tuned. This is made me aware how important the layout the underlying data is when using a tool like Tableau to extract data. Performance techniques on the front end design is also important to have it quickly load.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We needed a way to effectively collaborate the data we analyze and have the audience take minimal time is understanding the true information that has been researched. It is helping us be better communicators of our data and insights. We also use it to create repeatable dashboards that are dynamic. A template is used to develop new content and the underlying data refreshes on its own.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Tableau Desktop is a front end application that does allow for on the fly calculations. This is minimal and does not take away the fact that you still need to invest on data work.
Tableau
What do you like best about the product?
Great crystal clear visualizations ,easy to use, easy for administration
What do you dislike about the product?
Cost, no slicing and dicing, mostly satisfies dashboard reporting
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Heat maps are very useful which resolved a lot of pie charts
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What do you like best about the product?
Ease of use, multiple sources. Fast acting changes.
What do you dislike about the product?
Sometimes it gets bogged down but certain sources but desktop is better than web.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Reconciling between sources, once reporting has been set up it has been easier to retrieve data for common tasks.
Very powerful for visualizations and analytics
What do you like best about the product?
I love the ability to draw together diverse data sources and do joins and calculated fields right within the application. It has taken over many tasks I used to use Access or Excel for.
What do you dislike about the product?
Takes a long time to learn to use well. Sometimes hard-to-see changes in the setup of a page (e.g., changing the color of a pill from blue to green) can dramatically change the output, which can make results frustrating to debug.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I use Tableau to analyze multiple related data sets simultaneously; this lets me avoid having to upload and join the data sets in an application like Access before getting into analytics. Saves time and makes advanced statistical analysis look easy.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
I found this product hard to learn by just playing around with it; good courseware is necessary to get up to speed on Tableau.
Tableau Desktop
What do you like best about the product?
Tableau allows for easy data visualization regardless of the data type. It has been useful for creating presentations as well as making analysis decisions for work.
What do you dislike about the product?
I do not appreciate how difficult it is to learn how to use the software. It can be a complicated system to pick up and the tutorials are not always easy to follow.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I am solving the business problem of presenting data in an understandable way. It makes it possible to conduct analysis with hard data.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
I think you should reach out for additional support and tutorials to truly master this software. As it stands the tutorials are not adequate to make Tableau a useful solution without external training.
non-technical, intuitive way to visualize data
What do you like best about the product?
The drag and drop dimensions and measures make it easy to build complex visualizations that would have otherwise taken hours in Excel. If you don't have a hypothesis or know what you're looking for, you can dig around in your data to find insights without worrying about wasting too much time since the visualizations are so easy to build. It's great for using Google Anlaytics because if you're working with data from a large site, it automatically queries new sets of data to prevent sampling, which means your findings are much more accurate than if you looked in Google Analytics itself.
What do you dislike about the product?
I dislike how difficult it is to join data sources. Tableau isn't useful unless your data has really been cleaned and is all in one central database. If you're trying to blend different spreadsheets and databases or perform inner joins, it gets very messy.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I wanted to accelerate diagnosis and reporting on website performance and be able to present findings to clients in a very visual way. I also wanted to take large sets of data from Google search to find new areas of opportunity.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
If you're looking to Tableau to understand clean, historical data, it's fantastic. Tableau cannot be used for predictive analytics though unless you package it with R.
Tableau
What do you like best about the product?
The software is really user friendly and easy to set up
What do you dislike about the product?
Sometime Loading time for large dataset
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Visual analysis
Tableau Gives Extra Need for Dashboarss
What do you like best about the product?
Creating nice dashboard where my HR reporting cannot
What do you dislike about the product?
Too complicated when it doesnt need to be
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Bad Reporting in our HR system
Helping to tell better stories using Data
What do you like best about the product?
We are using this tool for HR Analytics and it really is both user friendly in allowing for data to be displayed in a way that makes it incredibly accessible to all stakeholders at the Center and easy to drill down to make important business insights digestible with the help of the big data team we can easily connect with a variety of dffierent databases from which data is easily uploaded.
What do you dislike about the product?
The only downsize is probably the cost, particularly for nonprofit organizations.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We are using it to tell better stories about our organization around talent. Talent acquisition, talent retention and talent management.
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