Forum Discussion
DAX vs. Tableau
Thank you all!
It's very helpful.
Just a small drill down - in term on filter and ro context - once you master the understaning of the concepts, you pretty much master DAX (roughly).
Where does it meet Tableau? Do these concepts exist in the same manner?
You cannot learn DAX for 5 minutes without hearing about it, and calculate in particular. Is it the same in Tableau or do they emphaise a different concept?
Hmm, I don't think I'll be of much help in that regard.
I only evaluated Tableau, before deciding on BI tool of choice for the company, and didn't delve deep into their function language.
One of the deciding factor was lack of ETL and modeling feature in Tableau for me. I routinely have to connect to multiple sources ranging from zipped file, text file, db, to API and wanted ETL that handled all these situations, without need for integration with other sofware. Though visualization tools in Tableau was much more appealing.