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Tableau Public Reviews and Ratings

Rating: 9.3 out of 10
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9.3 out of 10

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Pros

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.

Reviews

14 Reviews

Tableau Public - No fuss dashboarding for non-techies

Rating: 8 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Tableau Public as part of our reporting and dashboarding toolset within our agency's marketing team. We use it both for internal and client dashboards and find it is a pretty helpful and wide-ranging dashboarding and data visualization tool, the fact that it is free is only an added bonus despite the limitations of the free account.

Pros

  • Data visualisation
  • Sharing visualisations
  • Importing data from Multiple sources, both online and local data
  • Creating Dashboards
  • Pre built visualisations
  • Data sharing

Cons

  • Haven't seen any as it currently meets all of our requirements and expectations for a free tool

Likelihood to Recommend

Tableau Public is a great data visualization tool for its price and the functionality it offers you when it comes to creating and maintaining dashboards. Compared to the other tools we had used, with Tableau we were able to process larger datasets. The community visualizations also help save time when building new dashboards.

Vetted Review
Tableau Public
2 years of experience

Can't go wrong with Free Subscription

Rating: 10 out of 10

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I use Tableau Public for my personal use, its easy to create dashboards and share them with everyone who would like to see new visuals and some workaround hacks to achieve desired visual. if we are using public data it's easy to publish in Tableau public as there won't be any data restrictions. Tableau public has a lot of make-overs Monday dashboards for more ideas and suggestions from people across the world.

Pros

  • Sharing Dashboards with public.
  • All feature like desktop.
  • No data restrictions and safe to share.

Cons

  • Version controlling.
  • Better URL to share with people.
  • Create a snapshot video option is good to have.

Likelihood to Recommend

Tableau public is the best platform to build dashboards for your personal profile and share with recruiters. It's always good to keep ourselves updated on the latest features, create sample dashboards and save them to a personal profile. Tableau public is free and doesn't need any subscription. anyone can create an account and start building reports.

Vetted Review
Tableau Public
5 years of experience

The best tool to develop actionable insights

Rating: 10 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I used Tableau Public to develop the visualization using road safety data to transform data into insights in a public space.

Pros

  • Easy to use
  • Many visuals to use and have variety
  • Highly secure
  • Very popular

Cons

  • Overlaying of the number maps

Likelihood to Recommend

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Tableau Public: A Bargain You Can't Beat

Rating: 10 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Tableau Public is used within our organization to make publicly-available data dashboards and visualizations for public consumption. We do internal data analysis and then publish to Tableau Public's servers; additionally, we'll use its sharing features to distribute our visualizations to other organizations, as well as embed the visualizations on our own content on our site and publication sites we work with.

Pros

  • Free
  • Integrated with Tableau Desktop
  • Easy to use visualizations
  • User friendly for the consumer

Cons

  • Tableau Public could use a bit of access control
  • Integration with Google Analytics would be nice

Likelihood to Recommend

Tableau Public is ideal for sharing any visualization that is intended for the public. It is inappropriate for use with any proprietary or confidential data.

Review of Tableau Public for reports and dashboards serving banking clients

Rating: 8 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Tableau is being used to make sense of the plethora of data to CxO team and bank-clients. It is used across the organization. It solves the problem of generating insights and aids in making a quick decision. Internally, it helps discover data patterns such as customer purchase behavior, sales trends, or production bottlenecks.

Pros

  • Excellent, mind-blowing variety of visualization wizards
  • Lightweight and secure
  • Variety of data sources supported by its connectors, from plain file, Excel, RDBMS, and Hadoop to NoSQL databases.
  • Easy deployment to production.

Cons

  • Padding and working with null or missing values.
  • Expensive Licenses
  • Slow rendering when the data volume is huge.
  • Real-time changes in visualization as the underlying data changes.

Likelihood to Recommend

For a data warehouse environment, where a post-facto analysis is done, Tableau is well suited. For generating insights or summary analysis and for predictive analysis. The visualization, coupled with critical thinking, aids in data storytelling. For real-time dashboards, where refresh rates are high coupled with high data volumes, Tableau is less suited.

Active platform for data analysis

Rating: 9 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Tableau Public is not used as popular as MS excel by students on campus in terms of data analysis and visualization. However, lots of engineering students and those who are dealing with data analysis have been using Tableau for many projects and research. Tableau Public, together with Tableau desktop, is available on computers for students from the engineering departments, the statistics department, and the business school. Using Tableau Public can create a viz that makes results from data analysis more approachable to your audience and the data can be obtained from any engineering experiments, statistic analysis, market surveying, etc.

Pros

  • Tableau Public can work with data that are differently formatted, such as MS Excel, .txt file, Google Sheets, not sure about MS Access.
  • GUI interface of Tableau Public is not that hard to start working on; Also, it can generate codes for the operations and so it is relatively easy to visualize and correct mistakes.
  • Lots of Tableau Public users upload their work to the online community, users can easily find very good figures/graphs that are similar to their problems and so they can use these figures/graphs as templates to modify and make their own ones.

Cons

  • Tableau Public is a free version which has limited space for data importing. Upgrade the software involves a large fee.
  • When importing data to Tableau Public, data file needs to be filtered out clearly, which means all columns need to be consistent, no extra space. Otherwise, it will cause problems in the dataset in Tableau Public.

Likelihood to Recommend

Tableau Public has a variety of templates to create a visualization for data, which is much better than MS Excel. I also find that the way it presents the results from data analysis is more intuitive than other similar programs. If many workbooks are open in Tableau Public, the computer is easy to freeze sometimes.

Vetted Review
Tableau Public
1 year of experience

Tableau Public is a great community-driven dashboard program

Rating: 10 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Tableau Public was used during the initial onboarding stages of the Tableau platform (when we were making decisions about what dashboard program to implement organization-wide). It was used across the entire organization in different capacities: as an analyst, I primarily worked on requirements gathering for dashboards from clients and internal teams, and then built the dashboards to the gathered specifications. Data engineers built APIs and data pipelines to provide the requisite data to test the platform. Clients and internal team members used Tableau Public to view and present different reports based on the data from different platforms. Tableau Public, like Tableau (corporate or enterprise), is a dashboard program meant to work with large datasets and visualize and present that data in digestible formats. In this sense, it addresses the issues of understanding the story data tells: its viz capabilities are great for summarizing data (say, monthly spending performance), and identifying trends using different visualizations.

Pros

  • Data visualization: lots of different options, including bar, scatter, pie, waterfall charts to explore relationships between variables, and to present findings/trends to different teams
  • Integrates readily with limited, though different data sources: TXT, CSV, TDE, Access
  • Exports reports for review of different dashboards: client-ready/team-ready, with a clean and tidy presentation in PDF format (or hardcopy)

Cons

  • The biggest drawback to the Public version of Tableau is that any data used in the program is 'public' and therefore not secure: workbooks are saved to the cloud, rather than locally
  • Tableau Public limits data ingestion to 10 million rows per source
  • Limited connections - can't connect to SQL databases to ingest data (must be through CSV, Access, TDE, or text files)

Likelihood to Recommend

Tableau Public is great, especially if you're new to the platform or considering implementing it within an organization. The Public version has most of the capabilities of the full version, with extensive community documentation to troubleshoot issues you may run into. Additionally, there are many resources to check out Public workbooks from other users and communities: a GREAT learning resource to figure out new, innovative ways to visualize and present data. It is perfect for evaluating public datasets, for doing exploratory data analysis, or contributing to cross-organizational or extracurricular projects that may benefit from more sophisticated data analysis and exploration. Tableau Public, because it stores to the cloud and has limitations on connectivity (ie, cannot connect to SQL servers) is not suited for confidential, financial, PII, etc., data, and care should be taken to avoid including sensitive data in any of the Tableau Public workbooks used by an individual or organization.

To organize and plan the data: Tableau, an option for daily data jobs

Rating: 10 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Tableau has helped us to organize all our information in order to make our planning much easier. We started using it when we realized we needed to know all the details that the sales team was telling us, so we can make an emphasis on the most important products to offer, for example.

This software has been used by the whole organization; we all learned to use it and understand the meaning of every data, to use it for our daily jobs. In this way, we have used Tableau to organize our information and make our plans.

Pros

  • Data procesing
  • Business intelligence
  • Data organization
  • Visualization
  • Decision making

Cons

  • Dynamic graphics
  • Integration with other software
  • More options with the maps

Likelihood to Recommend

If we want to know how our sales are going, Tableau helps us with this. Also, it lets us know what product is more popular and where our strength is. It's useful with inventory but it's not the best option, because it only shows you some things but not everything that you need.

Great for data visualization in blogs, reports, and other documents

Rating: 9 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

It is used to visualize data to use in blog posts, periodic reports, white papers, emails, and social media posts. It makes it easy to share data visualizations with the public, or to add them to documents intended for a specific audience. The platform is useful in keeping all of our data and reports consolidated in one place across multiple devices. It is used in both communications and development.

Pros

  • Integration with Goodle Drive
  • Allows you to highlight specific data points
  • Optimizes visualizations for viewing from different devices

Cons

  • In order to keep your data private, you have to buy a subscription
  • Problems with embedding on some websites
  • Must have a professional subscription to share with your network

Likelihood to Recommend

Generating data-based reports for donors or board of directors. However, note that the public version should not be used for any data that you would like to keep private. Also good for creating unique data visualizations to use in presentations, or simpler visualizations to use in the text of a blog post or in a social media post. <style></style>

Vetted Review
Tableau Public
2 years of experience

Tableau sets the standard for Business Analytics tools

Rating: 10 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Tableau is primarily used as an analytics tool for managerial accounting decisions regarding costing, inventory, and product performance. In addition, it is used for generating presentation content and segmenting regional target lists and performance results. This tool solves an array of business problems including effective content generation and acts as a user friendly, centralized financial information database.

Pros

  • Generates heat maps to segment product performance and volumes for each state if needed. This helps to allocate focuses on growth opportunities for particular states.
  • Quickly reads large files and increases productivity exponentially.
  • User interface is simple to use - great supporting resources if you're not understanding a specific area.

Cons

  • Simpler first time integration. Labor intensive first steps in order to get data to operate effectively. I needed to keep re-verifying numbers until I felt the integration was operating correctly.

Likelihood to Recommend

General Management, Demand Planning, Product Management, Pricing Management, Financial Accounting, Managerial Accounting, Cost Management, Manufacturing or Operations Management, Business Development Management, and Marketing Support Services are some of the internal users within my environment which use Tableau's capabilities to an extent. In addition, integrating regional sales managers is essential for providing scorecards and reports to their field agencies.

Vetted Review
Tableau Public
3 years of experience