Tableau 2020.4 crams pretty chart chops into browser so you can evict chunky client from storage real estate

Data visualisation big fish Tableau is promising users the ability to get their hands dirty without having to download its seriously weighty desktop client. The popular show-and-tell data tool provider said that allowing customers access to data prep via a browser would help them "combine, shape, and clean" their data before …

[Pascal Monett]

"download its seriously weighty desktop client"

And just how weighty is that ?

My Lotus Notes installation is a hair under 13GB - and that's just the program, the data is in another folder.

Diablo III weighs in at 16GB. My Lord of the Rings Online install tops 27GB.

So how weighty is this Tableau application ?

[Anonymous Coward]

Re: "download its seriously weighty desktop client"

My 2020.3 Tableau program folder is just shy of 2GB, so not that weighty in the grand scheme of things. Why, it could fit on a DVD with no trouble!

[Anonymous Coward]

It's the new innovation.

1. Replace old feature-rich desktop application with new minimum-viable cloud application

2. Now you have a new cool thing that does less than the old uncool thing.

3. Add some of the features from the desktop application into the cloud application.

4. Now it's even cooler, even though it does less than what you had to begin with.

[Gordon 10]

The IDC Spokeshead is way off base

Data Scientists have very little business messing with Tableau - its poor value for their time, when you can get a Data Analyst at thrid/half the rate to work with Tableau.