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tableau.com is the company blog at tableau.com, writing about data and programming. Since 2013, 48 different Hacker News readers have linked it 56 times, most often “Tableau: Covid-19 (Coronavirus) Data Resource Hub”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Rarely recommended · 0 of 33 sampled comments recommend it?
Why HN links it
HN readers link tableau.com for its product, pricing, student licence and learn/blog pages on data visualization, such as colour choice. Most comments discuss Tableau's licensing cost and product rather than the pages.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 33 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- /3 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2016-03-01
- Tableau: Covid-19 (Coronavirus) Data Resource Hub3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2020-03-10
- /2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-06-10
- /products/desktop2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-02-23
- /2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2016-10-03
What Hacker News says?
Tableau is free for students and teachers. (1 year license) https://www.tableau.com/academic/students . It's not crippled.
Comment linking /academic/students
on “Salesforce is buying Tableau for $15.7B”Submitted Designing great visualizations [pdf] as a story · 22 points
HN discussionI stopped teaching Tableau because of the licensing costs to my students. Tableau feels more polished than PowerBI although BI has pretty much reached feature parity with Tableau. The problem is the licensing costs. PowerBI is very affordable ($10 a month) while Tableau is not($70 and UP). Tableau is basically saying, unless you have a corporation paying for the license err SAAS subscription do not bother to use us.…
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on “Salesforce is buying Tableau for $15.7B”Submitted How Kimberly Clark hacked Redshift optimization saving over $250k as a story · 11 points
HN discussionFeedback on your homepage, https://meltano.com/ There's no single visual on it :( Please show what kind of results one can get with this product. Contrast with https://www.tableau.com/ , which has a sample graph and "See it in action" right at beginning.
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on “Salesforce is buying Tableau for $15.7B”Submitted Tableau: Covid-19 (Coronavirus) Data Resource Hub as a story · 8 points
HN discussionI dont want to start a rant against Tableau. It's a powerhouse. It's a great superior software. But when it comes to optimizing cost and comparing the total cost of ownership and opportunity to stop paying for Tableau server license we voted in favor of Superset and mix of Reactjs+Echarts widgets. https://www.tableau.com/products/server If you have money, dedicated team of data analytics who are already familiar wit…
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on “Apache Superset”Submitted Porting Tableau Server to Linux, Part 1 as a story · 5 points
HN discussionTableau | Palo Alto, Fulltime | Sr. Engineer/Dev Manager | ONSITE Tableau's ( http://tableau.com ) extensibility team is growing and building a developer platform. Tableau's mission is to help people see and understand data and our team is building the APIs developers can use ( http://developers.tableau.com ) for everything from automation, custom visualizations, and connecting to new data sources. If you're interes…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2016)”Submitted Tableau acquires hyperDB as a story · 4 points
HN discussionTableau | Seattle & Palo Alto USA, Vancouver CAN | Onsite http://www.tableau.com/ Our mission is to help people see & understand their data. I'm not good at marketing, you can Google us & read for yourself. I've been here >3 years and love it - common feeling here, the high retention rate and happy team speaks for itself. Happy customers, too. The customer conference is a lot of fun. We're hiring pretty much every e…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2016)”Submitted Tableau Acquires HyPer as a story · 4 points
HN discussionTableau |Seattle or Vancouver, Fulltime | UX Designer, Senior UX Designer, UX Manager | Tableau's ( http://tableau.com ) design team is growing. We have openings for a UX designer in our Seattle offices and are looking to build up our our newly-opened Vancouver office with a UX manager and Senior UX Designer. Full job descriptions and links for each right here: Vancouver | Manager, User Experience Designer: http://r…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2016)”Submitted Visual Analysis of the Zeroth Kind: Geoffrey Taylor and the Bomb as a story · 4 points
HN discussionTableau | Palo Alto or Seattle, Fulltime | Sr. Engineers | ONSITE Tableau's ( http://tableau.com ) extensibility team is growing and building a developer platform. Tableau's mission is to help people see and understand data and our team is building the APIs developers can use ( http://developers.tableau.com ) for everything from automation, custom visualizations, and connecting to new data sources. Full job descript…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2016)”Submitted Tableau Prep (Project Maestro) is here: Redefining your data prep experience as a story · 3 points
HN discussionYou're right that we don't use Spark as our data engine, but we also don't use hyper yet either (well, we do in beta[0] :). Hyper is replacing our existing data engine (conveniently named "Data Engine" [1]) [0] https://www.tableau.com/products/coming-soon [1] https://research.tableau.com/paper/analytic-data-engine-visu...
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on “Google Data Studio”Submitted Growing the Tableau Economy with New ‘Hire Me’ Button in Tableau Public as a story · 2 points
HN discussionTableau | Palo Alto CA, Austin TX, Vancouver Canada | Sr. Engineers | ONSITE Tableau's ( http://tableau.com ) Sustaining Development team is growing and we need experienced developers focused on addressing current customer issues. Tableau's mission is to help people see and understand data and our team is building the APIs developers can use ( http://developers.tableau.com ) for everything from automation, custom vi…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2016)”Submitted Salesforce Signs Definitive Agreement to Acquire Tableau as a story · 2 points
HN discussionTableau | Palo Alto or Seattle | Sr. Engineers | ONSITE Tableau's ( http://tableau.com ) extensibility team is growing and building a developer platform. Tableau's mission is to help people see and understand data and our team is building the APIs developers can use ( http://developers.tableau.com ) for everything from automation, custom visualizations, and connecting to new data sources. Full job description is at…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2016)”Submitted Linux now supports Tableau Server as a story · 2 points
HN discussionTableau | Palo Alto or Seattle, Fulltime | Sr. Engineers | ONSITE Tableau's ( http://tableau.com ) extensibility team is growing and building a developer platform. Tableau's mission is to help people see and understand data and our team is building the APIs developers can use ( http://developers.tableau.com ) for everything from automation, custom visualizations, and connecting to new data sources. Full job descript…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2016)”Submitted Alberto Cairo’s ‘Little Gems’: 5 Lesser-Known Books on Data Visualization as a story · 2 points
HN discussionThe product is awesome. I made some really neat visualizations and analyses with it during an MBA project using the 15-day trial. But it's ridiculously expensive - $1000 per year with some real limitations on how many data sources you can connect. If I could dabble with it for $50/year I would. $1000 though? That limits their market tremendously to big companies only. It's hard enough to get an $80 tool approved. --…
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on “Tableau stock down almost 50%”Submitted If Data Could Talk: Game Theory and Economic Recovery as a story · 1 points
HN discussionFrom a Tableau terms of service: https://www.tableau.com/tlc-terms 3(g): "publicly disseminate information regarding the performance of the Tableau Beta Products." 3(f) is also identical, but they otherwise don't look that similar. They're both > $50B companies, so you'd think they could get their lawyers to use different verbage..
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on “Atlassian Cloud ToS section 3.3(I) prohibits discussing performance issues”Submitted Access and analyze trusted Covid-19 (Coronavirus) global data as a story · 1 points
HN discussion> The thought that our future relies now more in Google's product decisions is scary. At least in this case, Google's product decisions are counter-balanced by the variety of enterprise contracts Looker is already beholden to. Which should help to temper any abrupt surprises. That said Azure has embedded PowerBI[1], AWS has embedded Quicksight[2], and Tableau even offers an embedded analytics service[3]. So you're f…
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on “Google to Acquire Looker”Submitted Top Retail Dashboards for Better Performance as a story · 1 points
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