{"id":490,"date":"2017-11-29T10:51:33","date_gmt":"2017-11-29T17:51:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lava\/?p=490"},"modified":"2018-03-23T15:51:45","modified_gmt":"2018-03-23T22:51:45","slug":"monday-dec-4-2017-alison-myers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lava\/2017\/11\/29\/monday-dec-4-2017-alison-myers\/","title":{"rendered":"Monday Dec 4, 2017: Alison Myers"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><strong>Power BI vs. Tableau (a totally biased review from a Tableau user)<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p>Alison is a Research Analyst at UBC Sauder School of Business.\u00a0 As part of her role, she is involved in a variety of data analytics and data visualization projects that require adopting different tools and techniques.\u00a0 She writes:<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;I have been recently exploring Power BI as an alternative data visualization tool and would like to share with the group. I\u2019m happy for this to be more of a discussion than a presentation, so anyone with experience with either Tableau or (especially) Power BI please be prepared to chime in. In the comparison, I plan on:<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>1) Showing a quick demonstration of the two tools with a shared dataset<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>2) Highlighting some of the main functionality differences that I have noticed<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>3) Discussing which tool might better suit different needs<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>If anyone has a) any specific questions about functionality in either tool (ie. \u201ccan you build X\u201d) please let me know and I will try to answer\/bring that up for discussion.&#8221; <\/em><\/p>\n<p>You can contact Alison via <a href=\"mailto:alison.myers@sauder.ubc.ca\">Email.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Power BI vs. Tableau (a totally biased review from a Tableau user) Alison is a Research Analyst at UBC Sauder School of Business.\u00a0 As part of her role, she is involved in a variety of data analytics and data visualization projects that require adopting different tools and techniques.\u00a0 She writes: &#8220;I have been recently exploring &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lava\/2017\/11\/29\/monday-dec-4-2017-alison-myers\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Monday Dec 4, 2017: Alison Myers&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50271,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13773,1379071],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-learning-analytics","category-meeting-topics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lava\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lava\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lava\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lava\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/50271"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lava\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=490"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lava\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":530,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lava\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490\/revisions\/530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lava\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lava\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lava\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}