Tableau Public

Score9.4 out of 10

288 Reviews and Ratings

What is Tableau Public?

Tableau Public is a free edition of the Desktop product. With this edition, data can only be published to the Tableau public website and does not allow work to be saved or exported locally.

Categories & Use Cases

Data Discovery and Visualization

Customizable dashboards
Customizable dashboards are dashboards providing the builder some degree of control over the look and feel and display options.
Category average: 8.7
Publish to Web
Category average: 8.2
Publish to PDF
Category average: 8.9

Report Delivery Scheduling
Report Delivery Schedule is the ability to have reports delivered to a destination at a specific data and time.
Category average: 8
Integration with R or other statistical packages
Integration with the open-source R predictive modeling environment.
Category average: 6.5
Delivery to Remote Servers
Ability to deliver reports to remote servers
Category average: 8.5

Christopher Penn View profile

Chief Data Scientist in Corporate at Trust Insights (1-10 employees employees)

Pros

Free
Integrated with Tableau Desktop
Easy to use visualizations
User friendly for the consumer

Cons

Tableau Public could use a bit of access control
Integration with Google Analytics would be nice

Return on Investment

Tableau Public visualizations have helped drive traffic to our content and sites
The lack of cost means it's easy to demonstrate our experience to attract paying clients

Alternatives Considered

Tableau Desktop, Tableau Online and Tableau Server

Other Software Used

RStudio, Dataiku DSS

Usability

Suryaprakash Mishra View profile

Senior Data Analyst, Research, Insights and Evaluation, Road Safety Division at Transport Accident Commission (TAC) (1001-5000 employees employees)

Pros

Easy to use
Many visuals to use and have variety
Highly secure
Very popular

Cons

Overlaying of the number maps

Return on Investment

It has served its purpose and is very popular. Local government councils use the reports for the Grant application.

Other Software Used

Microsoft Power BI, Amazon QuickSight

Usability

Hiren Mistry View profile

Enterprise Data Architect in Information Technology at Worldline (51-200 employees employees)

Pros

Excellent, mind-blowing variety of visualization wizards
Lightweight and secure
Variety of data sources supported by its connectors, from plain file, Excel, RDBMS, and Hadoop to NoSQL databases.
Easy deployment to production.

Cons

Padding and working with null or missing values.
Expensive Licenses
Slow rendering when the data volume is huge.
Real-time changes in visualization as the underlying data changes.

Alternatives Considered

QlikView, D3.js and Sisense

Other Software Used

OpenText Analytics, Tableau Server, Qliktag IoT Connected Smart Products Platform

Leah Jakaitis View profile

Senior Data Analyst in Marketing at Tulco Labs (5001-10,000 employees employees)

Pros

Data visualization: lots of different options, including bar, scatter, pie, waterfall charts to explore relationships between variables, and to present findings/trends to different teams
Integrates readily with limited, though different data sources: TXT, CSV, TDE, Access
Exports reports for review of different dashboards: client-ready/team-ready, with a clean and tidy presentation in PDF format (or hardcopy)

Cons

The biggest drawback to the Public version of Tableau is that any data used in the program is 'public' and therefore not secure: workbooks are saved to the cloud, rather than locally
Tableau Public limits data ingestion to 10 million rows per source
Limited connections - can't connect to SQL databases to ingest data (must be through CSV, Access, TDE, or text files)

Alternatives Considered

QlikView, Google Data Studio, Microsoft Power BI and Power BI For Office 365

Other Software Used

Trello, Basecamp, Marketo, Pardot, Google Ad Manager, Google Authenticator, Yahoo! Advertising, Google Marketing Platform (formerly DoubleClick)

Verified User

Consultant in Marketing (1-10 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Tableau Public as part of our reporting and dashboarding toolset within our agency's marketing team. We use it both for internal and client dashboards and find it is a pretty helpful and wide-ranging dashboarding and data visualization tool, the fact that it is free is only an added bonus despite the limitations of the free account.

Pros

Data visualisation
Sharing visualisations
Importing data from Multiple sources, both online and local data
Creating Dashboards
Pre built visualisations
Data sharing

Cons

Haven't seen any as it currently meets all of our requirements and expectations for a free tool

Return on Investment

We have saved costs on Dashboarding tools thanks to the free tools within Tableau Public
Streamlined reporting
Time saved with easier data preparation features
Professional looking dashboards and visualisations

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What is Tableau Public?

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Customizable dashboards

Publish to Web

Publish to PDF

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Report Delivery Scheduling

Integration with R or other statistical packages

Delivery to Remote Servers

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