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I’ve played with Tableau a few times and the issue I run into (with geographic data) is that it needs you to either: 1. Have Lat/Longs in your dataset or 2. Associate your data with known geographies (towns, counties, census tracts, etc.) Since we use linear referencing to locate all of our data it isn’t immediately available for use in Tableau. I don’t want to Extract-Translate-Load my data every time I want to visualize it. Additionally, Tableau Public only lets you connect to spreadsheets or Access databases. In the cases where I used it to visualize data in spreadsheets, it’s not extremely intuitive. Simple things like removing or formatting columns or colors aren’t very straightforward. But, to be fair, I haven’t used it recently so things may have changed. Stephen Smith GIS Project Supervisor From: Northeast Arc Users Group [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Jill Tremblay Sent: Friday, July 15, 2016 10:51 AM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Mapping with Tableau Have any of you done work in mapping in Tableau? How does it compare to ArcMap basic? Can you do any actual analysis or just data visualization? Pros/Cons? Worthwhile to learn for a GIS analyst? ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This list (NEARC-L) is an unmoderated discussion list for all NEARC Users. If you no longer wish to receive e-mail from this list, you can remove yourself by going to http://s.uconn.edu/nearcsubscribe. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This list (NEARC-L) is an unmoderated discussion list for all NEARC Users. If you no longer wish to receive e-mail from this list, you can remove yourself by going to http://s.uconn.edu/nearcsubscribe.