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Omkar
Omkar

Reputation: 2149

Curious question about Tableau software

Tableau software presents nice graphs for data visualization. I am curious to know how such nice interactive graphs are generated? Are they support HTML5? What could be nice graphical library for this?

Any help?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 2346

Answers (2)

AustinDahl
AustinDahl

Reputation: 852

Tableau Desktop and Tableau Server share a lot of the same back end code to generate images. Tableau Desktop draws images on the screen and Tableau Server draws into off-screen image buffers and then sends the data as a series JPEG tiles to the browser.

The shared code is custom C++ created by the developers at Tableau Software. For versions 6.1 and earlier, the code used graphics libraries that are part of the MS stack like GDI and GDI+.

Upvotes: 11

Roman Zenka
Roman Zenka

Reputation: 3604

Why don't you look at the source code of the generated page?

Tableau server is worth several K$. I do not hhink their libraries are freely available - they cost them a lot to develop.

Upvotes: 1

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