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Tableau Public
Tableau Public is a free service that you can download to create and publish interactive data visualizations to the web. You don’t need to be a programmer or hire one – no language to learn, no Flash, no plug-ins and no API. Tableau Public makes it easy to:
- Make your blog or website stand out;
- Let people explore your data online;
- Share your visualizations
The Tableau Public software saves work to the Tableau Public web servers – nothing is saved locally on your computer. Embed the content in your blog or website, or share it via links on web pages or in emails. Once on the web, anyone can interact with the data, download it, or create their own visualizations of it.
Tableau Public can connect to Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Access, and multiple text file formats. It has a limit of 100,000 rows of data allowed in any single file and there is a 50 megabyte limit on storage space for data.” Source: Tableau Software
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4 comments so far.
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@NovusNous says:
June 22, 2011 at 1:31 pm
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@mcristia says:
June 22, 2011 at 1:30 pm
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Ellie Fields says:
June 22, 2011 at 9:35 am
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Journalism Accelerator says:
April 27, 2011 at 8:44 pm
| ParticipantsRT @journaccel: Data visualization experts @tableau software believe in the power of storytelling w data to enrich public conversation http://cot.ag/jihTy3
RT @journaccel: Data visualization experts @tableau software believe in the power of storytelling w data to enrich public conversation http://cot.ag/jihTy3
This is Ellie Fields from Tableau. We’re a for-profit company that provides Tableau Public for free as a public service, because we believe in the power of storytelling with data to enrich public conversations. Many journalists use it, and it is truly free. No hidden costs.
To use Tableau Public, you download the free desktop tool from http://www.tableaupublic.com and then publish visualizations to our cloud servers. You can then embed live data visualizations on your website or blog, just like a Youtube video.
You can find free training, videos and a discussion forum on tableaupublic.com, or tweet us @tableau.
Thanks for sharing this resource, Sheetal. What sort of things have you used Tableau for? Do you have something we can include in this post to show the software in action?