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Re: Tableau stock down almost 50%

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Post by kgwgk »

chollida1 wrote: post #50

Though the outcome is a bit worse than I think most predicted, this has been telegraphed since about November of last year. Tableau has had a very high short interest ratio for sometime, everyone was expecting poor results. What really exacerbated their issue was that they didn't get out in front of this and let people know how bad they were going to miss. So when they released earnings everything went to shit on the…

> everyone was expecting poor results.

Maybe the people buying yesterday didn't expect poor results. Or at least they expected the kind of poor results that would make the stock go up. Definitely it did come out "a bit worse" that they predicted.

Re: Tableau stock down almost 50%

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Post by sologoub »

vailripper wrote: post #74
sologoub wrote: post #59

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Tableau is a visualization software that you can bolt on top of many different data sources, from spreadsheets to BI tools and even AWS RedShift to get awesome looking dashboards and interactive visuals. They are/were extremely popular with many sales organizations for internal dashboarding and even some media outlets used their stuff for public websites. Sad to see this state of things for them, as the product was t…

We're using them for a client, and pretty much every client I've worked with lately is using them. I think they'll be just fine, it's still a good product.

The AWS RedShift integration was a really good move, as one of the reasons we did not adopt them at my previous company was the requirement that the data set fit in memory of the server.

With RedShift, you offload the actual crunching to the db that can handle billions of rows, and then visualize the results.

Re: Tableau stock down almost 50%

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Post by karmawitch »

untog wrote: post #126
karmawitch wrote: post #106

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five people telling in detail horror stories that make every other devop feel the pain? (except those seasoned exchange-experts of course) did you ever consider there might be valid reasons some folks prefer *nix based servers?

five people telling in detail horror stories that make every other devop feel the pain? Check the timestamps of those messages vs mine. At the time there were only the two responses I mentioned.

you have a point there

Re: Tableau stock down almost 50%

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Post by TheLogothete »

jonknee wrote: post #127
chollida1 wrote: post #50

Though the outcome is a bit worse than I think most predicted, this has been telegraphed since about November of last year. Tableau has had a very high short interest ratio for sometime, everyone was expecting poor results. What really exacerbated their issue was that they didn't get out in front of this and let people know how bad they were going to miss. So when they released earnings everything went to shit on the…

It would make a nice acquisition for Microsoft...

Not after all the investment in powerbi, sadly.

Re: Tableau stock down almost 50%

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Post by TheLogothete »

chebum wrote: post #123
gomox wrote: post #88

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Honestly I have never used anything similar to Tableau in the balance of "straight-forwardness" and quality of results. My use case is: here's some data, let's take a look at it and make some decent graphs including any sort of comparative analysis. Excel is... well, Excel. The kitchen sink bundled in it contains pivot tables. Graphs are hideous out of the box, and very limited. Apple Numbers makes cute looking graph…

Klipfolio?

Comparing Klipfolio to Tableau is like comparing Notepad to Visual Studio.

Re: Tableau stock down almost 50%

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Post by click170 »

walker7734 wrote: post #39
andrewvc wrote: post #4

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If you've ever run tableau server, you know why.

I would very much like to know what particular issues you are having as well? I work at Tableau and I would like to make sure that issues people are seeing are on our radar, if they aren't already.

I'm elated to see that your responding here. Please please see my comment below: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11043082

There is so much low hanging fruit, I feel like anything related to actually running and maintaining tableau is ignored and I don't seem to be the only one judging from comments here.

I would add that I'm disappointed the only way these issues get attention are articles and threads like this.

Re: Tableau stock down almost 50%

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Post by TheLogothete »

cscharenberg wrote: post #71
sologoub wrote: post #59

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Tableau is a visualization software that you can bolt on top of many different data sources, from spreadsheets to BI tools and even AWS RedShift to get awesome looking dashboards and interactive visuals. They are/were extremely popular with many sales organizations for internal dashboarding and even some media outlets used their stuff for public websites. Sad to see this state of things for them, as the product was t…

The product is awesome. I made some really neat visualizations and analyses with it during an MBA project using the 15-day trial. But it's ridiculously expensive - $1000 per year with some real limitations on how many data sources you can connect. If I could dabble with it for $50/year I would. $1000 though? That limits their market tremendously to big companies only. It's hard enough to get an $80 tool approved. --…

Tableau is an enterprise product and it's one the cheaper ones out there. You can't offer that kind of a product for $50/year.

Re: Tableau stock down almost 50%

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Post by wyck »

brooklyndude wrote: post #98

I can hack d3js. Can crunch billions of records in a flash of the eye, can wrangle most any DB (NoSQL, et al) out there, why would I need Tableau? Answer: We want someone stable! Not some crazy hacker. Plus if we don't spend the cash, we don't have it in our budget next year. Oh, I get it now. :-)

Lol, so I use Tableau every week. For example today I had a government request to measure quantity of customers outside a particular business radius of 40km. Meaning what percent of total visits are in the radius vs outside it. I had 8k postal codes.

This took me literally 5 minutes in tableau, I would hate to see how long this would take you writing code.

..Just the tip of the example iceberg.

Re: Tableau stock down almost 50%

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Post by topogios »

physcab wrote: post #90

Tableau is a good product. I use it daily. There simply is no better alternative for quick ad-hoc, enterprise-level, intuitive graph and dashboard making. I've been at large orgs where we evaluated all the cloud services like Mixpanel and the ilk, but they are very different use cases. Tableau + Redshift (or Vertica but Redshift is way less expensive) is the typical BI tech stack. When I go a client or a new job and…

Asking out of curiosity:

What does Tableau offer that I can not quickly set up in either Mondrian coupled with a frontend like Saiku or Pentaho or eg. R and a Shiny server?

Re: Tableau stock down almost 50%

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Post by wyck »

Honestly I don't care about stock rhetoric, it's an awesome product I use every week. I evaluated lot's of BI's options because it's a pricey product and I'm super happy with it, Tableau is actually fun (because its so easy yet powerful) and meaningful. The only other decent alternative was Qlik but it was more pricey for the options I needed.
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