Kickstarting Tableau

Explore data visualization with Tableau to create visuals and reports that convey analysis; download a free trial, purchase licenses, and learn about creator, explorer, viewer, and student licenses.

Kickstarting tableau teaches you to connect diverse data sources such as Excel, SQL, Oracle, and Redshift. Preview tables, explore metadata, and switch between live and extract connections for faster queries.

Connect to your data, open the audience sheet, and drag dimensions and measures into columns and rows to build visualizations, then use Show Me to select chart types.

Kickstarting Tableau by enhancing visualizations through color and size marks, enabling labels, formatting data, titles, and axes, and adjusting whitespace for cleaner bar charts with fit height/width.

Learn to sort data and create diverse charts in Tableau, including bar, pie, treemap, bubble, line, stacked bar, and symbol maps, using show me and color by profit.

Create and arrange dashboard sheets for Tableau, enable interactive filters and map-driven views (California, New York), and save or package dashboards as wb and dwbx formats for easy sharing.

Publish your dashboard to Tableau Public by creating or signing into a public account, naming the workbook, and publishing to the web; share, embed, or download the visualizations.

Explore the basics of Tableau, learn how to create visualizations and dashboards, publish on Tableau Public, and engage with the Tableau community including Zen Masters and forums for ongoing support.