MY PERSONAL TABLEAU STORY
I first came across Tableau in 2009, when I was writing my thesis at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research in Geneva. I was exploring the landscape of available tools for the visualization and communication of data because I was not happy with the clunky, inflexible solutions that were commonly used back then.
Like most of my colleagues at CERN, I spent a lot of time aggregating data in Python, a popular universal programming language, only to then visualize it in another tool, the command‐line tool GnuPlot. It was a struggle to keep all the scripts well maintained, and even small changes required a lot of time and effort.
When new data came in, the scripts had to be re‐run. The resulting visualizations were, of course, static and didn't offer any interactivity to the end user. And the software packages I used had a lot of dependencies that had to be resolved every time a new version became available.
When I eventually learned...
