#1 most frequent
United States of America
59.1%2,339 installations of 3,955
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
Product Demos
Top Performing Features
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
Areas for Improvement
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
Who Buys & Uses Tableau Public
#2 most frequent
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
5.1%202 installations of 3,955
#3 most frequent
Canada
3.6%144 installations of 3,955
Tableau Public: A Bargain You Can't Beat
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
The best tool to develop actionable insights
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
Review of Tableau Public for reports and dashboards serving banking clients
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
Tableau Public is a great community-driven dashboard program
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)
Tableau Public - No fuss dashboarding for non-techies
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
Alternatives Considered
Microsoft Power BI
Other Software Used
Microsoft Power BI, Zoho Analytics (formerly Zoho Reports)
