Once Narratives for Tableau has generated the text, users can customize it by choosing a paragraph- or bullet point-style for the description, among other things.

Data visualization vendor Tableau Software Inc. hopes to keep the pedal to the metal with the launch of a free service that brings sophisticated dashboards and charts to amateur spreadsheet jocks.

The tableau, measuring 18 by 20 inches, was discovered in 1995 by John Coleman Darnell, a Yale Egyptologist, and his wife, Deborah Darnell, also a specialist in Egyptian archaeology, while they ...