Why do organisations or people keep using Tableau instead of Power BI
March 06, 2017
Why do organisations or people keep using Tableau instead of Power BI
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with Tableau Desktop
I have used Tableau Desktop for various projects related to data visualization and showing data analysis. It is very easy to develop various charts, using colour codes to distinguish various trends and has templates to complete the work.
- Helps spot visual patterns correctly.
- Apart from using an Excel you can also connect to your own data set or database to import large amounts of data and use it to drill down and prepare charts.
- The charts and graphs made with Tableau are very interactive with the right information.
- When data is highly granular Tableau must render and precisely place each element.
- Green data fields are continuous and blue data fields are discrete. It is essential to understand what they do previously or else one can get confused. If you do not take Tableau video lessons or read about how the data fields with green or blue fields are different, it would be confusing. Tableau can improve that.
The reason I selected Tableau desktop was because it is so easy to use. You can easily download it, there are a large number of tutorials provided by Tableau that you can use to familiarise yourself with the tool. The learning curve for Tableau is less. I personally had a project due in morning and I was able to learn to use it in a span of 2 hours maximum. It has a variety of data visualisation techniques that make it very easy to represent large data and communicate its meaning.