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by plaidfuji 846 days ago
I use tableau for scientific, engineering and operations data visualization and it’s a breath of fresh air compared to my years spent writing pages of MATLAB/matplotlib/seaborn/bokeh/plotly code just to get something presentable. For many use-cases it’s even better and faster than JMP’s graph builder, and that’s saying something. The major missing feature is stats tooling (t-tests and CI-based error bars), but the number of use cases that don’t require these is large and the time saved from Tableau’s “immediately presentable” defaults is huge.