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Encyclopedia of Big Data

Introduction

Tableau Software is a computer software company situated in Seattle (USA) that produces a series of interactive data visualization products (http://tableau.com). The company offers a variety of products that query relational databases, cubes, cloud databases, and spreadsheets and generate a variety of graph types. These graphs can be combined into dashboards and shared over the internet. The products utilize a database visualization language called VizQL (Visual Query Language), which is a combination of a structured query language for databases with a descriptive language for rendering graphics. VizQL is the core of the Polaris system, which is an interface for exploring large multidimensional databases. Special attention is given to the support of big data sets, since in recent years the demand of big data visualization has increased significantly. Tableau’s users can work with big data without having advanced knowledge on query languages.

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  • Lorth, A. (2019). Visual analytics with Tableau. Hoboken: Wiley.

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  • Milligan, J. (2019). Learning Tableau 2019: Tools for business intelligence, data prep, and visual analytics (3rd ed.). Birmingham: Packt Publishing.

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  • Sleeper, R. (2018). Practical Tableau. Newton: O’Reilly.

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  • Stirrup, J. (2016). Tableau dashboard cookbook. Birmingham: Packt Publishing.

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  1. School of Journalism and Mass Communication, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece

    Andreas Veglis

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  1. School of Policy, Government and International Affairs, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, USA

    Laurie A. Schintler

  2. School of Policy, Government and International Affairs, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, USA

    Connie L. McNeely

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Veglis, A. (2020). Tableau Software. In: Schintler, L., McNeely, C. (eds) Encyclopedia of Big Data. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-32001-4_196-1

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