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Compare the strengths of Tableau and R

Compare the strengths of Tableau and R

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Compare the strengths of Tableau and R

- Tableau is one of the best data visualization software packages around, while R is a powerful command-line driven analytical language. The two environments have more in common than you would think, but their strengths lie in two different areas. Taking a look here at R, you can see that unless you put a graphical user interface on top of it, you are working with a command line environment. I've already loaded in a table using the read.table method. If I want to find out information about that data, I have a lot of analytical commands at my disposal. If I want, I can just see a quick summary. So I would type in summary, and then revenue in parentheses, and enter, and I get information about the data that I loaded into my revenue dataframe. There are ways to visualize data in R, but you have to add a lot of commands, and it's not as intuitive as it is in tableau. To show you what I mean, let me switch to Tableau…

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