Overview
What is Tableau Public?
Tableau Public is a free edition of the Desktop product. With this edition, data can only be published to the Tableau public website and does not allow work to be saved or exported locally.
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Active platform for data analysis
Tableau Public is a great community-driven dashboard program
To organize and plan the data: Tableau, an option for daily data jobs
Great for data visualization in blogs, reports, and other documents
Tableau sets the standard for Business Analytics tools
Tableau Public is easy to use
Create, Interact and Share your Insights with Tableau
Interactive Data Visualization Shared on the Web
Popular Features
- Customizable dashboards (12)10.0100%
- Drill-down analysis (12)9.898%
- Report Formatting Templates (12)9.797%
- Formatting capabilities (12)9.797%
Pricing
What is Tableau Public?
Tableau Public is a free edition of the Desktop product. With this edition, data can only be published to the Tableau public website and does not allow work to be saved or exported locally.
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Features
BI Standard Reporting
Standard reporting means pre-built or canned reports available to users without having to create them.
- 9.7Pixel Perfect reports(10) Ratings
Pixel Perfect reports are highly-formatted reports with graphics and ability to preview the report before printing.
- 10Customizable dashboards(12) Ratings
Customizable dashboards are dashboards providing the builder some degree of control over the look and feel and display options.
- 9.7Report Formatting Templates(12) Ratings
Ad-hoc Reporting
Ad-Hoc Reports are reports built by the user to meet highly specific requirements.
- 9.8Drill-down analysis(12) Ratings
Drill down analysis is the ability to get to a further level of detail by going deeper into the hierarchy.
- 9.7Formatting capabilities(12) Ratings
Ability to format output e.g. conditional formatting, lines, headers, footers.
- 9.5Integration with R or other statistical packages(9) Ratings
Integration with the open-source R predictive modeling environment.
- 9.8Report sharing and collaboration(11) Ratings
Report sharing and collaboration is the ability to easily share reports with others.
Report Output and Scheduling
Ability to schedule and manager report output.
- 10Publish to Web(11) Ratings
- 10Publish to PDF(9) Ratings
- 9.8Report Versioning(9) Ratings
Report versioning is the assignment of version numbers to each version of a report to help in tracking.
- 9.5Report Delivery Scheduling(9) Ratings
Report Delivery Schedule is the ability to have reports delivered to a destination at a specific data and time.
- 8.1Delivery to Remote Servers(7) Ratings
Ability to deliver reports to remote servers
Data Discovery and Visualization
Data Discovery and Visualization is the analysis of multiple data sources in a search for patterns and outliers and the ability to represent the data visually.
- 9.8Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)(11) Ratings
Pre-built visualization formats are canned visualization types that can be selected to visualize different kinds of data.
- 9.8Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization(11) Ratings
Location analytics is the visualization of geographical or spatial data.
- 9.7Predictive Analytics(9) Ratings
Predictive Analytics is the ability to build forecasting models based on existing data sets.
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Tableau Public has found its place in a variety of use cases, proving to be a versatile tool for data analysis and visualization. Analysts rely on Tableau Public to gather requirements and build customized dashboards that meet their specifications. With the ability to visualize and present large datasets, Tableau Public enables users to summarize data and identify trends using various visualizations. This makes it an invaluable asset for organizations, allowing them to make sense of complex data sets and generate insights that aid in quick decision-making. Its capabilities extend beyond internal use, as Tableau Public also serves as a platform for creating publicly-available data dashboards and visualizations. The tool enables organizations to publish and distribute these visuals, whether through embedding them on their own websites or sharing them with other organizations. Furthermore, students leverage Tableau Public for educational purposes such as data analysis projects and research, while agencies utilize it both internally and for client reporting and dashboarding. Personal users have also found value in Tableau Public, using it to create and share dashboards with others. Ultimately, Tableau Public offers a wide range of applications across industries and user types, making it an indispensable tool for anyone seeking to unlock insights from data.
Great training tool: Many users have found Tableau Public to be a valuable training tool for understanding the basics of Tableau before purchasing the full software. This has allowed them to familiarize themselves with the platform and its features, making it easier for them to transition to using the complete version effectively.
Extends visualization capabilities: Reviewers have praised Tableau Public as an excellent tool for extending the visualization capabilities of Excel. They appreciate how it enables them to create more advanced and interactive visualizations, allowing them to present data in a more engaging and accessible way. Additionally, Tableau Public's ability to publish data for others to access has been highly valued by users.
User-friendly interface with easy customization: Users have consistently highlighted Tableau Public's user-friendly interface, which makes it simple and intuitive to create and reformat visualizations. The availability of various visualization wizards has also been mind-blowing according to reviewers, enabling users to easily explore relationships between variables and present findings effectively. Furthermore, users appreciate the customization capabilities offered by Tableau Public, allowing non-developers to make on-the-go changes and tailor their visualizations without difficulty.
Limited data sharing and security options: Several users have expressed the need for better options for public sharing of visualizations and data, as well as concerns about the lack of security in Tableau Public. Some reviewers feel that the fact that any data used in the program is public and not secure is a significant drawback.
Restrictive storage space limitation: A common concern among users is the 1 GB storage space limitation per user ID and password. This constraint is seen as limiting by several reviewers, especially for those who work with large volumes of data.
Limitations in data ingestion and compatibility: Many users have mentioned the limitations in terms of data ingestion in Tableau Public. The software only allows a maximum of 10 million rows per data source and does not support direct connections to SQL databases. Additionally, some users have found it unable to read Excel workbooks with multiple pages, which can be restrictive when working with complex datasets.
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(1-3 of 3)Getting Started With Tableau? Try Public
- Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)
- 100%10.0
- Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization
- 100%10.0
- Predictive Analytics
- 100%10.0
- Customizable dashboards
- 100%10.0
- Report Formatting Templates
- 100%10.0
- Pixel Perfect reports
- N/AN/A
- Drill-down analysis
- 100%10.0
- Formatting capabilities
- 100%10.0
- Integration with R or other statistical packages
- 100%10.0
- Report sharing and collaboration
- 100%10.0
- Publish to Web
- 100%10.0
Create, Interact and Share your Insights with Tableau
- Tableau Public offers free tools for creative people to learn the products with minimal investment "up front", as well as providing a place to share data visualizations and insights with the world. Visualizations are hosted (for no charge) by Tableau Software and may be accessed by members of the local community (via links from an organization's website) or from anywhere in the world. Workbook(s) published to Tableau Public may be downloaded by viewers to see techniques used by the creator, and get good ideas.
- Tableau Public Premium is similar but removes the download functionality. This works well when the publisher wants to share access to the visualizations (e.g. on the organization's website) but NOT share the underlying workbooks nor data, keeping both confidential.
- Tableau Public (both Desktop and Server) like their "for a fee" counterparts offer very easy to learn and use tools to transform data into pictures and gain insights into your data. Most organizations report a reduction in development time of 10x vs. other similar tools, due to the intuitive user interface. That said, with Tableau Public, published workbooks are "disconnected" from the underlying data sources and require periodic updates when the data changes. Users are limited to 1 Gb of storage space per user ID and password as well.
- I would like to see better options for public sharing of visualizations and data from within the "for a fee" products as more and more organizations are moving in the direction of data sharing with partners and their communities.
- Internally, we use Tableau to monitor support call staffing and usage, monitor training class evaluations (by trainer and by topic), manage development projects, and visualize customer data (products by geographic location).
- K-12 Education customers use Tableau for analyzing assessment data, attendance, grades, behavior (discipline), demographic data and trends. Many visualizations integrate multiple data sources to understand the "big picture" of what factors affect student performance, risk of dropping out of school, etc.
- Government users have visualizations for financial, payroll and human resource applications, tax collections, appraisals, and records management.
- One recent example is tracking support call data. Our company delivers 25,000+ support call tickets in a given year, and the workload varies dramatically during the year, with different peaks and valleys for K-12 Education and Government customers. We created a visualization where we report prior calls by month and project out staffing needs for the next 6 months using Tableau. Since we deployed this about 6 months ago, our staffing numbers have matched our workload requirements signficantly better, leading to improved customer service and reduced wait times.
- K-12 Education - we are developing some new Balanced Scorecard visualizations for school districts to set district goals / targets and use Tableau to monitor progress against these targets throughout the year.
- Price
- Product Features
- Product Usability
- Analyst Reports
- Third-party Reviews
- Implemented in-house
- Getting end users to describe what they want and know what is possible.
- Connecting to data, creating visualizations and dashboards are all significantly easier with Tableau vs. other products.
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Interactive Data Visualization Shared on the Web
- It works easily with Excel (.xls Excel 97-2003) format workbooks (see the related negative comment below).
- It allows quick and easy reformatting of visualizations and charts.
- It facilitates chart building because you can see which charts' input requirements are satisfied by your data, without leading you, lock step through a "chart building wizard" or other nonsense.
- Modern (.xlsx) workbooks are not accepted in the free (public version). The public version accepts only a limited number of inputs from Microsoft Access and Excel (.xls 97-2003 format).
- It seemed unable to read an Excel workbook with more than three pages.
- You MUST post your results to the web. No confidential data here!
- Quick visualizations.
- Clean design. If you are a fan of Edward Tufte or Stephen Few, then you favor a lean, clean look. That seems to be Tableau's default. I appreciate that.
....until I saw that Tableau visualizations on the web were INTERACTIVE! That blew me away. That was the "killer app" for me. Then, when I learned that my visualizations were AUTOMATICALLY shared on the web, that was icing on the cake.
- Tableau helps me to quickly visualize my data and report on it.
- Tableau public lets me (in fact requires me) to post the results in a public forum.
- Tableau allows my viewers to "slice and dice" the data visualization interactively.
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- Online training
- Self-taught