Tableau Public Announces Massive Growth in 5 Months Since Launch

Tableau Public Announces Massive Growth in 5 Months Since Launch

Tableau Public tool helps data shine on the Web

PR Newswire -- July 26, 2010





SEATTLE, July 26 /PRNewswire/ -- Tableau Software today announced explosive growth in the use of Tableau Public. Launched in February, the company's product lets bloggers and publishers tell stories with data on the web. To date, people have made over 4.5 million visits to web pages enabled with Tableau Public's interactive visualizations, or vizes. This includes news sites like USA Today, blogs like Infectious Greed and websites like Maplight.org.



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Using statistics based on both the Community and Commercial editions of Tableau Public, Tableau also released the first quarterly publication of the Top 100 Visualizations. These are ranked by viewing sessions and online interactions, and show trends across the group.



The most popular visualization is a fantasy baseball tier chart created by CBSSports.com. Creator Al Melchior was thrilled to be first. "The tool allows me to do so many things with data that I was never able to accomplish before."



Among the Top 100, the most commonly viewed category is sports and the most interactive category is travel and lifestyle. Interactivity lets viewers explore the data within the visualization. People have created vizes on a wide range of topics, including worldwide alien abductions, the hottest U.S. cities for muscle cars and the all-time best basketball players.



"In just a short time, we've served millions of interactive visualizations to the public. It's been fascinating to see how people have used Tableau Public to bring data to life on the web," said Christian Chabot, CEO and co-founder of Tableau Software. "Tableau Public is becoming the go-to resource for telling stories to mass audiences with data."



Tableau Public users concur with Chabot.