Tableau

“I like Tableau as a company. It's in Seattle. Unfortunately, they're Windows only.”

“Despite companies like Tableau and others that like to talk about how visualizations tell a story, they actually don't tell stories.”

“Prior to Hortonworks IPO, you could go buy some Splunk, or you could buy Tableau, and there was really nothing else that was big data.”

“The challenge with a lot of these SQL-like languages is they don't really let you use SQL-compliant tools, so you can't use your Tableau directly with it because it doesn't speak sort of standard SQL”

“Tableau extracts are great, but they kind of fall over, either when the extract gets over a hundred million rows, a few hundred million rows, or when you have, like, streaming data doing the system.”

“But when you grow, you have to integrate with the ecosystem the organization is in, and we, for example, we have no feature to have a conversation in the data catalog, right? And that's intentional because we want to integrate with Slack, and that's why there'…”

“I had a strong preference to use tools like mode or looker over a tool like tableau because tableau was pre cloud and it assumed that you were going to be able to download all the data that you needed to operate on into your local cache.”

“And I think that Tableau is wrapping paper in Japan. You really wanted the toothbrush, but somehow what you really got was wrapping paper.”