1. Baxter Shandobil Adele Rife
Tableau
Baxter Shandobil
Adele Rife

2. Data/tile creation

3. “Create and share interactive charts and graphs, stunning maps, live dashboards and fun applications in minutes, then publish anywhere on the web. Anyone can do it, it’s that easy—and it’s free.”

4. Importing Data Tableau can connect to stored files or servers.
Supports many file types
Including Excel, text, KML,
ESRI Shapefiles, JSON.

5. Automatic Geocoding
Tableau will recognize city, state, and country names and do its best to geocode them
Seems to have trouble with cities that share a name.

6. Templates Tableau has a light or dark map template.
You can add a few layers like streets, water, etc., but it is pretty limited.
Integrates with MapBox, so you can import a custom design.

7. Drag and Drop
Tableau has an intuitive user interface that does not require any coding

8. Student License

9. Programming Languages and “mash-up” capabilities
Not necessary to use any programming languages
Mash-up capabilities R
Native support for Google BigQuery API (detailed analytics)

10. Documentation How-to Videos Sample datasets Live training User forums
“The Tableau community is notoriously enthusiastic and engaging. If you need a question answered, you’ll have a wealth of resources to turn to with Tableau.”
How-to Videos
Sample datasets
Live training
User forums
8 languages!

11. Examples