Tableau Introduction

Tableau is a data visualization platform that lets you connect to data from almost any source and turn it into interactive charts, dashboards, and stories - without writing code.

Why Tableau?

• Drag-and-drop interface for building charts quickly.
• Connects to spreadsheets, databases, cloud warehouses, and web data.
• Interactive dashboards that update as underlying data changes.
• Widely used across business intelligence, analytics, and reporting roles.

The Tableau Product Family

• Tableau Desktop - the authoring application used to build workbooks and dashboards.
• Tableau Server / Tableau Cloud - platforms for publishing and sharing dashboards with others.
• Tableau Public - a free version for publishing visualizations publicly online.

Core Building Blocks

A Tableau file is called a workbook, made up of one or more sheets (individual charts), which can be combined into dashboards and sequenced into stories.