http://sdrr.stanford.edu/#sessions

Slides presented by Joy and Laissa

• Start with Design Questions
• Visualization Tools
• Use Data Visualization to Create Insights
• D3 or Tableau?- How to Decide Which One to Use

Tableau
A fast analytics tool, allowing non-IT business users to perform data discovery, develop insights, and create interactive visualizations for management decision making and performance monitoring.

• Drag and drop reporting
• Interactive dashboards with drill down capabilities
• Quick table calculations
• Geospatial intelligence

Tip: Avoid using Tableau to replicate tabular Excel reports.

Good to use Tableau to get a sense of data
Easy to use for non-programmers, “Show Me” feature recommends visualizations/views of data

Tableau Examples and Resources

Use Tableau Desktop App to create workbooks (to share would need to publish on a server)
Kimberly Shay Morton – Tableau Account Manager for Stanford (kimorton@tableau.com)

Stanford has a site license for Tableau server
Kumar Priyadarshi, Stanford Administrative Systems, Tableau Server Administrator (kumarp05@stanford.edu)
Info needed to set up Stanford Tableau Server account

Stanford Tableau User Group – subscribe to mailing list

Tableau Public Server

D3
D3 (or D3.js) is a JavaScript library for visualizing data using web standards

• Open Source
• Web standards – HTML SVG CSS
• Powerful visualization components
• Highly customizable
• Fast, support large datasets, dynamic behaviors for interaction and animation
• Lots of online resources and examples

D3 Examples & Demo

• Irina Zaks – showed Stanford Securities Litigation Analytics D3 and Drupal site
  
• Developed in response to Law School faculty requests for a platform for data research
  
• Drupal – CMS – made it easy for faculty to submit info (upload .csv), share and collaborate
  
• D3 – support for customized visualizations