Research Guides: Health Informatics and Information Management : Data Visualization

Visualize your Data with Tableau Public

Tableau Public is a free cloud-based platform to create and share data visualizes online. It contains the largest repository of data visualizations on the internet, allowing you to learn more about analyzing your data and creating an online portfolio.

Why Visualize your Data?

Data visualizations are the graphical representation of information and data. Visualizations allow for cleaner and more direct interpretation of the data itself. It's a more accessible way to see the patterns, combinations, differences, and more within the scope of your data.

Facts about Tableau

Data is shared publicly
- It is for the public and therefore not a private platform
- Published visualizations are available for anyone to see
Free with limitations
- You can explore and create visualizations for free
- Like most free cloud-based platforms, saving locally and refreshing data is limited
Fully hosted
- You do not need to worry about hosting or moving your visualizations off the platform. Tableau takes care of hosting for you

Facts about Tableau Public

Facts about Tableau

Data is shared publicly
- It is for the public and therefore not a private platform
- Published visualizations are available for anyone to see
Free with limitations
- You can explore and create visualizations for free
- Like most free cloud-based platforms, saving locally and refreshing data is limited
Fully hosted
- You do not need to worry about hosting or moving your visualizations off the platform. Tableau takes care of hosting for you

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.

Need data to visualize? Navigate to the Data Sources tabs in the upper left corner of this page. For sample data from Tableau click here.