Comments on: Tableau: Picturing Data on a Virtual Canvas

By: Christine Muser

Christine Muser — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 22:08:32 +0000

Michael:

as promised, just a quick follow-up: extracting the data as you suggested did speed things up considerably. Once extracted, filtering sped things up even more. Thanks for the tip.

Christine.

By: Ellie Fields

Ellie Fields — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 17:30:36 +0000

Christine, glad you like the new version. We’re always working on performance and it would be great to discuss in person. I second Dan’s request for you to come to the Customer Conference if you can– I’d love to meet up there.

By: admin

admin — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 16:17:19 +0000

You are welcome, Dan. I saw a few DMs from you, so I’ll switch to Twitter shortly and get back to you there

By: Dan Murray

Dan Murray — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 14:32:58 +0000

Christine;

Thanks for the mention. You have a very nice blog which I just subscribed to. I also agree with Mike’s comments regarding the MS Jet Engine…it’s a bit clunky. Will you be attending the Tableau User Conference in July? If so, I’d love to meet you and share some data visualization stories.

By: admin

admin — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 15:45:49 +0000

Michael:

thank you for the tip. I will try it and report back.

Christine.

By: Michael W Cristiani

Michael W Cristiani — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 04:19:13 +0000

Christine,

Thanks for the review here.

The slowness with local files (Excel, Access, text) is most likely the responsibility of the MS Jet Engine, not Tableau. One thing you can do with local files to speed things up is Extract the data to using, either as part of the connection process or after the initial load of the data (Data | Extract).

MANY BLESSINGS!
Michael W Cristiani.