Tableau has significantly expanded its custom mapping capabilities in version 10.2, allowing for importing your own geospatial files in GeoJSON, shapefile, KML and MapInfo formats. I finally had a ...

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Tableau’s headquarters in Seattle’s Fremont neighborhood. (GeekWire Photo / Todd Bishop) Tableau will enable local file-saving for the free version of its data visualization software, no longer ...