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AlexDantin
Helper I
11 years ago

Map visualization limits and issues

I have an excel spreadsheet that I am testing out the map visualization with. the total dataset is less than 40K lines in 4 columns (Quarter-Year, State, Zip, and Value). When I import the data into ...
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DHoban
Regular Visitor
8 years ago

I agree, tableau handles the record volume just fine (I'm dealing with about 6M+ records).   I really don't want to invest a huge amount of effort building a PowerBI solution if this issue is not fixed quickly.   Once you see what is possible, you don't like to have to build work-arounds.   What are others using as a work-around?   ~Denise

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kcwilsonii
Helper I
8 years ago

I can't say tableau handles the large record volumes well.

 

Actually had a project recently which it totally balked on. Updates to each page were exceptionally slow and building linked tables proved unusable due to the volume of data.

 

I had to import the into Microsoft Sql Server Developer edition and create a smaller data set for it to work.

This project was for an online class using tableau.

 

If I had the choice I would used PowerBI, better structure for build of your data and display and distribution to various formats

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    DHoban
    Regular Visitor
    8 years ago

    Hi,

     

    Thanks for the response.   I am doing a parrallel comparison.   Our IT wants to use POWERBI, but I already had Tableau, so I am using tableau to proof the PowerBI results.   Both are connected to the same 'normalized' table in an SQL Server database.   

     

    The result so far is that I cant even get PowerBI to include all of the results because it hits overload mode.   Do I really have to create separate views to be able to create small-subsets of data?   Actually...  I haven't even tested if I can use views yet in PowerBI.     Is that doable?

     

    I do feel (from what I have seen so far) that Power BI might have better publishing capability (my company is in the middle of purchasing a server so that we can publish to it).    That is why I need to stick with this, but it is not nearly as user friendly as Tableau.    My fear is that if I can't report accurate/full summary of data, the publishing isn't going to matter.