Tableau Data Visualization

Tableau is a data visualization and business intelligence platform for creating interactive dashboards and reports. Founded in 2003 by Christian Chabot, Chris Stolte, and Pat Hanrahan (Stanford computer science professor, two-time Academy Award winner for technical achievement) in Mountain View, California. Went public on NYSE in 2013, acquired by Salesforce in July 2019 for $15.7 billion. Serves over 86,000 organizations. Key features: drag-and-drop analytics: create visualizations by dragging fields onto shelves. The VizQL engine auto-determines the best chart type. Connect to data: 90+ data sources including Excel, CSV, SQL databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQL Server, Oracle, Snowflake, Redshift, BigQuery), cloud services (Salesforce, Google Analytics, Amazon Athena), and web data connectors. Live and extract connections. Desktop: authoring tool for dashboards and worksheets. Maps, charts (bar, line, scatter, bubble, treemap, heatmap, box-and-whisker), custom geocoding. Server and Cloud: publish and share dashboards organization-wide. Row-level security, scheduled refreshes, subscription alerts. Prep: data preparation tool for cleaning, shaping, combining data. Visual pipeline builder. Public: free platform for publishing public visualizations. Dashboards: interactive with filters, parameters, actions, drill-down navigation. Device-specific layouts. Extensions: extend with custom JavaScript extensions. Ask Data: natural language querying. Explain Data: AI-powered explanations for outliers. CRM (formerly Einstein Analytics): AI-driven analytics integrated with Salesforce. C++/JavaScript. Proprietary.