ten tools for ten big data areas 02_tableau

Tableau OverviewTen Tools for Ten Big Data AreasSeries 02 Big Data Visualization

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Ten Tools for Ten Big Data Areas – Overview

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10 Tools10 Areas Data Warehouse

Data Platform

Data Bus

Programm

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Data A

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Sear

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Visualization

Data Integration

Streaming

Data

base

First ETL fully on Yarn

Data storing platformData computing platform

SQL & Metadata

Visualize with just few clicks

Powerful as JavaSimple as Python

real-time streamingMade easier

Yours Google

Lightning-fast cluster computing

Real-time distributed data store

High throughput distributed messaging

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Agenda


About data visualization

2 About Tableau company and its approach

3 Tableau architecture, client, server components, tool overview

4 Tableau why and why not

5 Tableau job trend

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Little About Data Visualization

• A graph is worth a thousand words• The key to make sense of data is visualization• Visualization make people see and understand data


About Tableau Software Company

• Found in 2003• 2014 revenue – US$412 million• Average growth rate 10% per year• Employee – 2400+• Customers – 10,000+• Partners – 500+• Cover various business, industries and government organizations

including telecommunications, health care, financial and insurance services.

• #1 for ease of use, fastest development times, and unmatched big data visualization


The Tableau’s Approach


Tableau Core Technology

• Visual analytics Based on visual query language - VizQL Unifies computer graphics and databases

• In-memory data engine Column database technology Extremely optimized data extract format

• Live query engine Great support various database and data type Native support SPSS, SAS, R files


Tableau Products v9.0 - Desktop

• Desktop tool to create data connection, visualization, chart, dashboard


Tableau Products v9.0 - Server

• Web-based reporting, data extract scheduling, sharing tools.


Tableau Products v9.0 - Online

• Cloud-based BI and dashboard solution


Tableau Products v9.0 - Public

• Free tool to publish and share the visualization on the cloud with limit of data source format, storage


Tableau Products v9.0 - Reader

• Free desktop tool to read and interact with the visualization of tableau


Why Tableau

• Various of visual analytics - forecast, group, tree maps, bubble charts, dynamic maps, data blending, free form dashboard etc. with great user experience.

• Fast visualization – parallelized dashboards, quick filters, data engine and extract performance, fast calculations, performance recorder.

• Support various of data source – salesforce.com, big data, API, Google analytics and big query, etc.

• Business integration – javascript API, distributed data server, auditing, security, mobile BI, self-BI, web-BI, etc.


Why Tableau – Inspirational Samples


Side Effect - When May Not To

• Little high price: 2000 a seat to start

• Lack of data shaping and transformation function, so it has to use with other ETL tools

• Lack of semantic layers definition, so it leverages the mart/view in the data source

• Lack of support of user defined function in the tool.

• Alternatives - MS SSRS/PowerBI, Microstrategy, QlikView, SAP BO, D3 library


Tableau Job Trends

Level Junior Level(20%)

Middle Level(40%)

Expert Level(40%)

Position Report developerData analyst

Sr. BI developer BI consultantTableau consultant


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