July 2017
Beginner to intermediate
378 pages
10h 26m
English
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The Tableau overview
Tableau is a business intelligence and analytics software tool that allows you to connect to dozens of different database and file types, drag and drop to build visualizations, and easily share them with others. There are two main versions, desktop and server. The desktop is a high-powered tool you install on your laptop to connect and manipulate datasets. A server is a web-based component where you publish your desktop visualizations for others to easily interact with them.
We will only focus on the Tableau desktop in this chapter as our mission is to explore data versus communicating analytic findings. It is free to try for a limited period. You can download it from the company's website (https://www.tableau.com/products/desktop/download ...