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Getting Started With Tableau? Try Public
June 27, 2017

Getting Started With Tableau? Try Public

Clifford Marsiglio | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Tableau Public

Tableau Public is the free/lite version of the Tableau visualization tool intended for publishing public data using public data sources. Unlike Desktop, there are no data connectors with the exception of Excel or CSV text files. And there is no security. It is software that is intended to extend visualization of data for public consumption with both the data and the visualizations freely downloadable by anyone accessing it.
  • Tableau public is a great training tool to understand the basics of Tableau before buying it.
  • Great tool to extend Excel's visualization and to publish data for others.
  • Not useful for anything you need secure.
  • No ability to access databases. Static information only.
Tableau Public lacks data connectors to Oracle/SQL Server or just about any. No ability to share non-public data nor to package into Tableau Reader. No ability to connect to Tableau Server or Tableau Online to secure your information. However, if you want basic visualization -- I would have killed for software like this years ago when I was using Java and PHP libraries to create my own!
If I were still teaching, I would require this of all students. I have been blogging for personal reasons unaffiliated with the mission of my institution pseudo-anonymously and the information is all public sources -- The ability to do this and encourage readers to download the software and find inferences in this data is incredible. I have the full application suite including access to Tableau Server -- but this allows me to post my visualizations to Tableau's own server with up to 10GB of storage for free.

Tableau Public Feature Ratings

10.0
Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)
10
Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization
10
Predictive Analytics
10
10.0
Customizable dashboards
10
Report Formatting Templates
10
Pixel Perfect reports
Not Rated
10.0
Drill-down analysis
10
Formatting capabilities
10
Integration with R or other statistical packages
10
Report sharing and collaboration
10
10.0
Publish to Web
10