Visualization using Tableau

Whichever method we use to perform distributed computing on big data, its very hard to comprehend the meaning of the data without the aid of tools such as Tableau, which can provide an easy to understand visualization of data.

We can do visualization using many tools such as Cognos, Tableau, Zoom data, KineticaDB, Python Matplotlib, R + Shiny, JavaScript, and so on. We will cover visualization in more detail in Chapter 10, Visualizing Big Data.

The following is a simple horizontal bar chart in Tableau:

Figure: Screenshot showing a simple horizontal bar chart in Tableau

The following is a geospatial view of data in Tableau:

Figure: Screenshot of a geospatial view of data in Tableau