Google BigQuery & Tableau: Best Practices

Tableau and Google BigQuery allows people to analyze massive amounts of data and get answers fast using an easy-to-use, visual interface. Put the power of Google BigQuery into the hands of everyday users for fast, interactive analysis.

Analyze billions of rows in seconds using visual analysis tools without writing a single line of code and with zero server-side management, share reports and insights on the web using Tableau Server and Tableau Online to allow anyone to connect from any device, create stunning dashboards in minutes that connect to your Google BigQuery data keeping your organization up to speed and a lot more!

Optimizing the two technologies together will yield significant performance gains, shorten design cycle, and help users and organizations become more successful. In this paper, we will discuss techniques to optimize data modelling and query formation to maximize the responsiveness of visualizations. We will also discuss techniques to get the best cost efficiency when using Tableau and BigQuery together.