Tableau Introduction
What is tableau
Leading tool for interactive data visualization.
Transform raw data into insight.
User friendly, no coding needed.
Tableau features
Live data updates
Mobile friendly
Clear visuals
Interactive dashboards
Easy drag and drop tools
Variety of data sources
Easy sharing with peers
Types of visualizations
Bar chart
Line chart
Pie graph
Scatter plot
Heat map
Tree map
Tableau is a very powerful data visualization tool that can be used by data
analysts, scientists, statisticians, etc. to visualize the data and get a clear
opinion based on the data analysis.
Tableau also allows to prepare, clean, and format data of all types and ranges
and then create data visualizations to obtain actionable insights that can be
shared with other users.
Products Offered by Tableau
Tableau Desktop is a desktop application that is the fundamental offering of Tableau. Tableau
Desktop can be used to create interactive data visualizations, perform unlimited data exploration,
create charts and dashboards from the data, etc.
Tableau Public is a free software provided by Tableau. It is used to create data visualizations and
data charts that can be embedded into blogs, web pages, etc. or transferred using social media.
Tableau Online can be used to create data visualizations, storyboards, data charts, etc. that are
fully hosted on the cloud and not on local servers.
Tableau Server is a server product for an organization that needs to be installed on a Windows or
Linux server.
Tableau Installation Guide
Tableau is a free software that allows user to easily create amazing and
interactive visualizations and that too without any programming.
Tableau is a very popular data visualization tool in the Business industry.
Go to the link - https://www.tableau.com//
Select Tableau Desktop : It is a desktop software for individual use.
Start Page
The start page in Tableau Desktop could also be a central location from which
the following can be done:
Connect to the data
Open last used workbooks, and
Discover and explore content produced by the Tableau community.
The start page consists of three panes: Connect, Open, and Discover.
Connect
Connect to data and open saved data sources.
On the Connect pane, the user can do the following:
Connect to data.
Open saved data sources.
Open
Open recent workbooks, pin workbooks to the start page, and explore sample
workbooks.
On the Open pane, the following can be done:
• Open recently opened workbooks.
• Once the user opens Tableau Desktop for the primary time, this pane is empty.
• As the user creates and saves new workbooks, the foremost recently opened
workbooks appear here.
o Pin workbooks.
o Explore sample workbooks.
Discover
See popular views in Tableau Public, read blog posts and news about Tableau,
and find training videos and tutorials to help you begin.
Tableau - Design Flow
Tableau - Data Types
In Tableau, we have seven primary data types. The function of Tableau is to automatically detect the data
types of various fields, as soon as the data is uploaded from the source and allocate it to the fields. These
seven data types are:
String values
Number/Integer values
Date values
Date & Time values
Boolean values
Geographic values
Cluster or mixed values
