Tableau Offers its Web Visualization Tools for Charts, Graphs, Maps for Free

I met the Tableau folks at last year’s Location Intelligence Conference. Now word comes the company is making a free trial of its software available. The software and the company, hope to make Web-based charts and graphs and maps more interactive and social and fun. Wired notes that it’s still a complex undertaking for the non- programmers, but applauds, as do I, this aspect:

A major plus for the statistically-inclined or the fact-checkers among us is that anything published using Tableau Public requires that the source data remain accessible and downloadable to everyone.

No browser plug in is needed but the desktop tool to set up the visualizations and the server software is Windows only.

- Wired
- press release