Research Guides: Data Visualization: Getting Started with Tableau: Tableau

About Tableau

Tableau is a software company that makes a suite of software for creating and publishing data visualizations including Tableau Public, Tableau Desktop, Tableau Server, and Tableau Prep.

WVU Students & Faculty: Tableau offers a one year free subscription to Tableau Desktop for accredited institutions.

Tableau for Students Program

Tableau for Teaching Program (Individual License & Course Software Available)

Tableau Public (Note: Public is a free version of the Tableau platform. To save your work, you must upload visualizations to Tableau's cloud-based Tableau Public service. If you wish to prevent data from being public and freely accessible, you will want to use the full-featured Tableau Desktop software).

Tableau Reader (Note: Reader is free desktop application that you can use to open and interact with data visualizations built in Tableau Desktop. Filter, drill down and discover).

Tableau Desktop Certification

The process usually takes ~2 business days.

How can I learn more about Tableau?

Videos and Tutorials

Free Training Videos from Tableau
Safari Online Learning Platform
- Directions: In the "Find a Solution" bar, type Tableau and select search. On the search results page, narrow the FORMATS field to Video.

eBooks

Tableau Your Data! by Daniel G. Murray
ISBN: 9781119001218
Publication Date: 2016
Transform your organization's data into actionable insights with Tableau. Tableau is designed specifically to provide fast and easy visual analytics. The intuitive drag-and-drop interface helps you create interactive reports, dashboards, and visualizations, all without any special or advanced training. This all new edition of Tableau Your Data! is your Tableau companion, helping you get the most out of this invaluable business toolset. Tableau Your Data! shows you how to build dynamic, best of breed visualizations using the Tableau Software toolset. This comprehensive guide covers the core feature set for data analytics, and provides clear step-by-step guidance toward best practices and advanced techniques that go way beyond the user manual.
Pro tableau : a step-by-step guide
ISBN: 1484223527
Publication Date: 2017
Leverage the power of visualization in business intelligence and data science to make quicker and better decisions. Use statistics and data mining to make compelling and interactive dashboards. This book will help those familiar with Tableau software chart their journey to being a visualization expert. Pro Tableau demonstrates the power of visual analytics and teaches you how to: Connect to various data sources such as spreadsheets, text files, relational databases (Microsoft SQL Server, MySQL, etc.), non-relational databases (NoSQL such as MongoDB, Cassandra), R data files, etc. Write your own custom SQL, etc. Perform statistical analysis in Tableau using R Use a multitude of charts (pie, bar, stacked bar, line, scatter plots, dual axis, histograms, heat maps, tree maps, highlight tables, box and whisker, etc.) What you'll learn Connect to various data sources such as relational databases (Microsoft SQL Server, MySQL), non-relational databases (NoSQL such as MongoDB, Cassandra), write your own custom SQL, join and blend data sources, etc. Leverage table calculations (moving average, year over year growth, LOD (Level of Detail), etc.

Browse all WVUL books on Tableau here.

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Data Visualization: Getting Started with Tableau

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