Chapter 1
Learning Tableau Lingo
IN THIS CHAPTER
Differentiating among business intelligence, data analytics, and data visualization
Grasping key Tableau terminology
Discovering Tableau Desktop and Tableau Prep installation prerequisites
Tackling data selection fundamentals
There is much hype about data, and the use of business intelligence, data analytics, and data visualization tooling gets plenty of hype as well. Although there are many enterprise business intelligence tools on the market, Tableau stands out among the leaders for being bundled as a single platform for business intelligence, analytics, and visualization.
In this chapter, you start exploring the Tableau landscape by discovering the main Tableau terminology you need to familiarize yourself with regarding business intelligence, data analytics, and data visualization functionality. In addition, you can dip your toes into what it takes to install Tableau applications and the various file-based output types produced depending on the Tableau product.
What Is Tableau?
Tableau is a business intelligence platform that ...
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