Tableau: The Visual Spreadsheet

Tableau Visual Spreadsheets helps you analyze data. Specifically, it provides a simple query and analysis interface for creating interactive summaries and reports of data. These summaries answer questions you have, for instance, questions about totals, subtotals, calculations, comparisons, rankings, outliers and trends - virtually any question you have about the information in your databases. They work on small MS Access and Excel databases, large corporate warehouses, and everything in between.
If you ever work with “rows and columns” of data, you’ll find Visual Spreadsheets a simple but extremely powerful analysis tool. They are used today by business line managers, consultants, finance professionals, business analysts, market researchers, scientists, engineers and data warehousing professionals in nearly every industry. This has been added to the tools section of the Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog.