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Thursday, December 12, 2013

Tableau 8.1 and R Introduction

In exploration for a project that requires the use of some advanced analytical methods developed in R which would then provide access to the results interactively,  I was looking for a method that could provide both capabilities.   I was well acquainted with Tableau for interactive dashboard development and delivery, but it had no way to directly connect to the analytics.  Version 8.1 has changed this:

" .... In this 2nd in a series of posts about the upcoming 8.1 release, I get to introduce one of the most exciting new features in Tableau 8.1: R integration. R has been a very popular language among statisticians but in the past few years, it has become the language of choice for a much broader group of data enthusiasts. .... " 

This is followed by a good introduction to the use of R with Tableau 8.1  With a simple example of classification.  That capability is not available within Tableau, so going out to R makes sense.  Nice addition.

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