Tableau Software: The Good, the Tech, and the Bad »
VizQL…?!
The good:
Christian Chabot[1]: “Every instance of people turning raw data into something useful includes turning it into a picture”
The tech:
VizQL, the visualization query language that powers the software, was developed at Stanford University by Chris Stolte and Pat Hanrahan, a founding employee at Pixar and the chief architect of that company’s RenderMan visualization and 3D rendering software—an effort that won him two Oscars.
The bad:
Unlike many emerging data technologies, Tableau was built for structured data—whatever fits nicely into rows and columns […]
As a final note, Tableau is able to draw some of the most beautiful graphics I’ve seen. They are much nicer even than Horace Dediu’s graphics.
Christian Chabot: CEO and co-founder of Tableau Software ↩
Original title and link: Tableau Software: The Good, the Tech, and the Bad (NoSQL database©myNoSQL)
