Tableau on H₂O¶

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

In H2O’s github repository there are two Tableau demo workbooks: one for Tableau 8.1 and one for the newer version of Tableau 8.2. Both currently only work on the Windows version of Tableau. There is currently an issue running calculating fields on OS X 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: