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Gearhead This Week: Tableau: PivotTables on Steroids

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Dec 11, 20061 min

This week in Gearhead we fall in love with Tableau, a tool that makes Excel’s PivotTables and PivotCharts look anemic and underpowered. It is to PivotTables what the Hope diamond is to a cubic zirconium sold in Zales post-Thanksgiving fire sale. Here’s the chart discussed in the column – click on it for the full size:

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Mark Gibbs is an author, journalist, and man of mystery. His writing for Network World is widely considered to be vastly underpaid. For more than 30 years, Gibbs has consulted, lectured, and authored numerous articles and books about networking, information technology, and the social and political issues surrounding them. His complete bio can be found at http://gibbs.com/mgbio

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