New ways of data analysis unveiled by Tableau

In today’s world of Information Technology, it had become as difficult as it can for an IT professional to dig a particular data over the internet. Unlike old days, one cannot pinpoint the required resource with just an internet research. It is not because of the data scarcity but because of the enormous availability. It had become a challenging task to scroll down to the appropriate resource or reference.

And meanwhile, this data complexity is also a deal-breaker for the business intelligence market. The perfect solution that overcomes the data complexity wins the battle. One such provider of complex data processing engine is Tableau. It transformed the data processing methods with its fun-filled and exclusive approaches.

Data Visualizations in Tableau

The Tableau software can work affluently with data visualizations and can display the information in the most innovative way possible. One best example of such viz (data visualization in Tableau) is an effective breakdown of the details of various gadgets. Below example portrays a data chart of smartphones with their respective cost and components.

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Not just technical details of gadgets, you can explore data on everything around the world. For instance, you can render the details of James Bond Movies and the location of each James Bond Movie.

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Tableau can perform such visualization and allows the user to manipulate, process and extract inner details of each information effectively.

Interesting. Isn’t it?

There are five different products released by Tableau to encourage the preference of the user. They are,

Tableau Desktop – it is an application which can be installed in a Windows/Mac machine. It can process the data allows the user to visualize and connect to data sources ranging from web data (such as to Twitter or Google Analytics), Excel, MySQL, financial/custom databases and Hadoop to name just a few. The cost is either $1,000 or $2,000 per license and includes one year of maintenance.

Tableau Server – It is a server system which allows several users to connect with and work on live interconnections, explore trending data, refresh displays with the latest data, schedule actions, and proxy security.

Tableau Public – It is a free online resource which provides platform for interactive data visualizations.

Tableau Online, a cloud-based offering. It can operate the server product and integrate security/data sources. It's "like Salesforce for data visualization." Cost is $500/user/year.

Vizable application – This free application is launched in October 2015 initially for the iPad device and later scattered for various other devices.