Tableau- software introduction

Table helps people see and understand data

Tableau mission

The softwares started in stanford with a computer scientist, academy professor and business leader with a passion for data. They came together to solve one of the most challenging problems in software- making data understandable to ordinary people. These were the fundamental ingredients for Tableau.

Tableau is the basic program for data visualization it is used for

1. linking various excel sheets to link visualization
2. create data visualization from excel

There are various types of Tableau options

1. Tableau Desktop
2. Tableau Server
3. Tableau Online
4. Tableau Mobile

In my opinion and for the course seek we are going to try on Tableau Desktop/ online/ mobile

Downloading Tableau

https://www.tableau.com/academic/teaching

It seems that Tableau data can be presented via

Tableau is a powerful and fastest growing data visualization tool used in the Business Intelligence IndustryThe Tableau Product Suite consists of 1) Tableau Desktop 2) Tableau Public 3) Tableau Online 4) Tableau Server and Tableau ReaderTableau Desktop has a rich feature set and allows you to code and customize reportsIn Tableau public, workbooks created cannot be saved locally, in turn, it should be saved to the Tableau’s public cloud which can be viewed and accessed by anyoneTableau server is specifically used to share the workbooks, visualizations that are created in the Tableau Desktop application across the organizationTableau online has all the similar functionalities of the Tableau Server, but the data is stored on servers hosted in the cloud which are maintained by the Tableau group.Tableau Reader is a free tool which allows you to view the workbooks and visualizations created using Tableau Desktop or Tableau Public.Tableau connects and extracts the data stored in various places. It can pull data from any platform imaginable.The spreadsheet application used for manipulating the data while Tableau is a perfect visualization tool used for analysis

1. desktop
2. Browser
3. Mobile
4. Embedded

links:

1. http://www.tableau.com
2. http://www.tableau.com/learn (a very good location to learn)