Tableau is my favorite data visualization tool
September 07, 2016

Tableau is my favorite data visualization tool

Alex Garnes | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Tableau Desktop

As a small company, we're only currently using Tableau Desktop for ad hoc analyses and occasional charts for projects and proposals.

Pros

  • Tableau's charting is its best functionality, at least for what we need.
  • A second, critically important feature is the ability to pull data from a variety of sources, without requiring ODBCs.

Cons

  • I'd like Tableau to increase its data analysis functionality. I always start an analytics project with visual analysis, and Tableau does that really well. But when I have to go deeper in the analytics (regression testing, ANOVA, means testing, etc.), I have to switch products.
  • Excel
Tableau is far superior to Excel in the display and visual analysis of data. Charts in Tableau are more professional looking than Excel.
Tableau is perfectly suited for visual analysis. It also excels at canned reports if you have an Enterprise setup. I do not use Tableau for analysis other than visual.

Tableau Desktop Feature Ratings

BI Platform ()
Not Rated
Supported Data Sources ()
Not Rated
10.0
Pixel Perfect reports
10
Customizable dashboards
10
Report Formatting Templates
10
9.3
Drill-down analysis
10
Formatting capabilities
8
Integration with R or other statistical packages
Not Rated
Report sharing and collaboration
10
10.0
Publish to Web
10
Publish to PDF
10
Report Versioning
Not Rated
Report Delivery Scheduling
10
8.0
Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)
10
Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization
10
Predictive Analytics
4
10.0
Multi-User Support (named login)
10
Role-Based Security Model
Not Rated
Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)
10
10.0
Responsive Design for Web Access
10
Mobile Application
Not Rated
Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile
Not Rated
Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding ()
Not Rated

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