<story><title>Tableau stock down almost 50%</title><url>http://www.google.com/finance?q=NYSE%3ADATA</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tomasien</author><text>I don&amp;#x27;t know what Tableau Software is and I found it pretty amazing that when I Google it I could still not figure it out because all the results were about the stock price. I think people might be focusing too much on stock price is Googling a company&amp;#x27;s name doesn&amp;#x27;t result in seeing the company&amp;#x27;s website on the first page of results.....</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gomox</author><text>Tableau is a surprisingly good desktop application for business intelligence and analytics that, IMO, grew too big for its own good. You plug it into data (spreadsheets, databases, you name it) and it makes it very simple (drag-and-drop simple) to crunch some numbers and produce interesting graphs, visualizations and analysis.&lt;p&gt;Some clever stuff they had was (early-RoR-style) guessing of data semantics based on heuristics (Column labeled &amp;quot;date&amp;quot;? probably worth grouping by months. Number pairs like -0.3242,0.12345 ? probably worth plotting on a map).&lt;p&gt;I have used trial and educational versions in the past and was always pretty impressed with the ease of use and the results. The product itself was &amp;gt; $1k so I never actually purchased a license.&lt;p&gt;Even though I didn&amp;#x27;t follow the strategy very closely, from what I&amp;#x27;ve run into it seems lke their offerings were all over the place. I saw a local newspaper using a hosted Tableau product to display data visualizations on their pages (the kind of visualizations made by a company whose DNA is desktop apps, so kind of underwhelming). Their website is all about Gartner and enterprisey lingo.&lt;p&gt;The product itself is, well, some advanced version of Excel. This means you either sell a lot of it very cheap, or very little of it for a lot of money. Website design suggests the latter. Too bad it seems to not be working.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m honestly sad to see them do badly as I think the product was really innovative and it really changed my way of thinking about report building and analytics tools.</text></comment>
<story><title>Tableau stock down almost 50%</title><url>http://www.google.com/finance?q=NYSE%3ADATA</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tomasien</author><text>I don&amp;#x27;t know what Tableau Software is and I found it pretty amazing that when I Google it I could still not figure it out because all the results were about the stock price. I think people might be focusing too much on stock price is Googling a company&amp;#x27;s name doesn&amp;#x27;t result in seeing the company&amp;#x27;s website on the first page of results.....</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sologoub</author><text>Tableau is a visualization software that you can bolt on top of many different data sources, from spreadsheets to BI tools and even AWS RedShift to get awesome looking dashboards and interactive visuals.&lt;p&gt;They are&amp;#x2F;were extremely popular with many sales organizations for internal dashboarding and even some media outlets used their stuff for public websites.&lt;p&gt;Sad to see this state of things for them, as the product was true good at one point. That said, I have not touched it in 3-4 years, so not sure how competitive it is now.</text></comment>