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Tableau and Power BI Shouldn’t Be Your Go-to Data Analysis Tool | by Brandon Southern - AnalyticsMentor.io | Medium

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Visualization tools such as Tableau and Power BI are incredibly popular, and they are what many people think of when they hear the term analytics. However, analytics is much more than dashboards created in these tools. Yet the real details of analytics seem to go unnoticed and even disregarded by most analytics departments. Analysts and teams frequently view the dashboard, the front-end visualization, as the product as opposed to the entire architecture. This leads to multiple sources of truth, massive inefficiencies, large amounts of technical debt, and a lot of bugs. Yet all of this goes largely undetected in most organizations. There are two common things that happen in the day-to-day life of the data analysts and each of these areas have opportunity for improvement. First, analysts will frequently receive ad-hoc analysis requests from stakeholders, and the analysis will be performed inside of Tableau or Power BI as the go-to analysis tool of the data analyst. Second, analysts will

Tableau and Power BI Shouldn’t Be Your Go-to Data Analysis Tool Brandon @ AnalyticsMentor.io 5 min read · May 13, 2023 -- 13 Listen Share Press enter or click to view image in full size Photo by Cesar Carlevarino Aragon on Unsplash Visualization tools such as Tableau and Power BI are incredibly popular, and they are what many people think of when they hear the term analytics . However, analytics is much more than dashboards created in these tools. Yet the real details of analytics seem to go unnoticed and even disregarded by most analytics departments. Analysts and teams frequently view the da

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