Tableau on H2OΒΆ

Tableau is the frontend visual organizer that utilizes all the available statistic tools from open source R and H2O. Tableau will connect to R via a socket server using a library package already built for R. The H2O client package available for installation allows R to connect and communicate to H2O via a REST API. So by connecting Tableau to R, Tableau essentially can launch or initiate H2O and run any of the features already available for R which is heavily supported.

In H2O’s github repository there is two Tableau demo workbook. One for Tableau 8.1 and one for the newer version of Tableau 8.2, both of which currently only works on a Windows version of Tableau. There is currently an issue running calculating fields on a Mac that has been submitted as a question on Tableau’s forum. Generally it seems like the issue is how states are saved or not saved between a Windows and Mac running on Rserve.

For a walkthrough on creating a dashboard for the airlines data set, choose one of the two versions of Tableau a tutorial is currently available for.