Tableau

Tableau is a data visualization tool that focuses on business intelligence and analytics. The visualizations include dashboards, worksheets, KPI tiles, and so forth. The software was created in 2003 on Stanford University campuses. It is now currently located in Seattle and has just recently been acquired by Salesforce in January 2019. Tableau can grab live data or data from flat files (sheets) to create dashboards. Once the data is in Tableau, users can run queries to create rules to view the data.

Tableau is also popular for its built-in mapping tool. This tool makes Tableau a popular choice and one of the best for geo spatial data visuals. Tableau dashboards can also be customized to fit any screen (tablets, phones, desktops, etc.), which makes it perfect for on-the-go real time analysis.

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