At its core, Tableau is an implementation of a really elegant formalism to specify visualizations, and it's much more organized and declarative than something l

At its core, Tableau is an implementation of a really elegant formalism to specify visualizations, and it's much more organized and declarative than something like Grammar of Graphics. http://graphics.stanford.edu/papers/cstolte_thesis/ http://graphics.stanford.edu/papers/cstolte_thesis/