Tableau on H₂O¶

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.