Meet Tableau Desktop and discover its role in the creator BI workflow, from rich data connections and drag-and-drop visualizations to dashboards, stories, and online sharing, plus download and install guidance.

Download Tableau Public or Tableau Desktop to start. Compare free Tableau Public with access to local files and public server publishing, versus the paid Tableau Creator plan for full features.

Explore the Tableau desktop interface across sheets, dashboards, and data sources, connect, filter, and join data in the data source pane, and build interactive dashboards that reveal actionable business insights.

Explore Tableau's platform and roles—creator, explorer, viewer—centered on Tableau Desktop, and access community resources, forums, Zen Masters, and user groups to boost learning.

Compare Tableau 2020.2 and later data connection panes, learn to access the original window with double-click, and perform joins and unions in the underlying physical layer.

Explore Tableau data connection types, from CSV and Excel to database sources, and learn how to add connections, use data interpreter, and create joins with visual SQL options.

Explore the data source interface, the main point for connecting to data, filtering, and shaping visualizations with the connections pane and data grid.

Clean dirty data with Tableau's data interpreter, a one-click AI tool for Excel and CSV files. View the before and after results and the Excel output showing cleansing details.

Explore transforming data in the data source interface by previewing the data grid, adjusting field types and geographic roles, and renaming, hiding, grouping, pivoting, and splitting fields for visualization.

Learn to union and join data in Tableau Desktop by dragging tables, configuring unions, and using inner, left, right, or full outer joins with keys.

Blend data from multiple data sources in Tableau Desktop, using a primary data source and secondary sources, linking on region and segment keys to compare sales against goals.

Compare live connections and extracts in Tableau Desktop, noting how live connections query the data source and how hyper extracts can improve performance and enable incremental refresh.

Explore opening and saving workbooks in Tableau Public and Tableau Desktop, including save and save as, open from public, and creating local copies with profile and export options.

Connect to and blend datasets in a raw Excel file using Tableau Desktop, clean and transform data, extract data, and save your work for maple beasts' 2019 CrossFit games analysis.

Learn to connect to data in Tableau Desktop, clean with the data interpreter, union and left join tables, transform fields, create age groups, and apply a rank filter.

Explore how Tableau desktop organizes data with dimensions and measures, and apply sorting, grouping, and filtering in the sheet interface to create dynamic visualizations.

Explore the core concepts of dimensions and measures in Tableau Desktop, and master discrete versus continuous fields, how they bucket data, aggregate values, and interact in visuals.

Master data sorting in Tableau Desktop to quickly reveal patterns and key insights. Apply axis, quick access, and field sorts, including custom aggregations and nested sorts, across views.

Group data in Tableau to roll up to higher levels of detail, fix inconsistencies, and run what-if scenarios using static or ad hoc groups through standard field grouping and regrouping.

Explore sets in Tableau Desktop, including constant and computed sets defined by conditions or top thresholds, created from fields or the view, and used as filters for top customers.

Discover how to create and manage custom hierarchies in tableau desktop, enabling drill-down from category to subcategory, adjusting order, replacing fields, and using plus and minus to expand views.

Explore how Tableau order of operations controls the sequence of data source filters, context filters, dimension filters, measure filters, and table calc filters in Tableau Desktop and Tableau Server.

Explore data source filters in Tableau Desktop: apply at the data source level, propagate to all sheets, control dates with relative or range filters, and boost dashboard performance.

Explore the filter shelf in Tableau Desktop, learn how to add filters with show filter or drag to shelf, use viz filtering, and understand order of operations and calculated-field nuances.

Explore dimension filters in Tableau Desktop, including general filters, wild card and condition logic, top functions, and the dimension filter card modes that empower flexible, user-friendly dashboards.

Explore how to customize Tableau Desktop filters, including only relevant values, apply button, and multi-value dropdowns, and apply filters across sheets and data sources.

Explore context filters in Tableau, elevate dimension filters above the order of operations, and create dependent top-end filters to produce accurate top five results and faster dashboards.

Choose an aggregation for your measure filter and an interface to set a range for quantitative data, at least, at most, or null values, noting they apply after other filters.

Explore date filters in Tableau, including continuous and discrete options, relative dates, and anchoring techniques, with tips on data freshness and filter behavior for dynamic dashboards.

Use Tableau Desktop to modify field types, sort, group, and filter data from a partial dashboard to help a real estate agent in King County win a sale.

Explore sorting, grouping, and filtering in Tableau by building a bedroom distribution sheet, six plus bedrooms group, a bedrooms hierarchy, and top zip codes by median price with date filters.

Explore how marks represent every visual element Tableau Desktop renders, including charts, labels, legends, and shapes, and learn to count marks and optimize performance by filtering data.

Master two quick methods to add visuals in Tableau Desktop: Show Me gallery and dragging or double-clicking fields to shelves, creating bar charts, treemaps, and pies.

Learn mark types and the marks card in Tableau Desktop, using automatic and Show Me, and tailor visualizations by adjusting the innermost field and discrete versus continuous months.

Create a dual-axis bar and line chart to compare monthly sales and profit, using the marks card, continuous monthly date, and synchronized axis when needed.

Create a geospatial map in Tableau to show sales and profit by city, highlighting top US markets, using a symbol map and the map dash sales and profit sheet.

Learn to create a dual axis bar and Gantt chart in Tableau that compares actual sales to goal with synchronized axes.

Create big aggregated number bands on dashboards to display year-to-date sales, profit, quantity, and average discount, using the marks card and sheet duplication for clean, labeled kpis.

Convert a bar chart to a tree map, rename the tab, and use show me to switch visuals; then drag category to rows to compare subcategories in a part-to-whole view.

Explore marks card properties in Tableau, focusing on color and size controls for measures and dimensions, label options, and preparing visualizations with detail, tooltips, and shapes for effective dashboards.

Learn how detail, tooltips, and shapes on the marks card control granularity, how dropping dimensions affects level of detail, apply viz in tooltips, and use custom shapes.

Explore stacking marks in Tableau Desktop to layer dimensions along a continuous axis, yielding additive totals; turning stacking off reveals unstacked, color-separated values with clearer tooltips.

Explore the dynamic pages shelf in Tableau Desktop to create time-based, animated views using dates, with playback controls, history trails, and page-driven storytelling for data analysis and presentations.

Explore Tableau Desktop's analytics pane with drag-and-drop tools like reference lines, totals, forecasts, and box plots, applied at table, pane, or cell level.

Master a four-step Tableau process to quickly build visuals, from line charts to donut charts, by using Show Me, then adjusting field types, properties, and marks.

Apply the marks card, show me templates, and pages in Tableau Desktop to create dynamic charts that analyze 80,000 UFO sightings for engaging data visualization.

Apply the marks card to build four visualizations: a symbol map, a tree map, a step chart with custom shapes, and a detail text table by following the homework walkthrough.

Learn to use calculated fields in Tableau Desktop to create new data columns from scratch for segmentation and metrics, including basic calculations, level of detail (LOD) expressions, and table calculations.

Navigate Tableau Desktop's calculation options with a decision tree, choosing table calculations for view-based analytics or level of detail expressions to adjust granularity, and use basic calculations when appropriate.

Explore Tableau calculation syntax through a dynamic calculated field that uses a parameter to toggle sales or profit in a chart.

Create calculated fields in Tableau desktop from existing fields or in the view, then materialize them for permanent use, enabling dynamic, aggregated calculations that act like other data source columns.

Explore how Tableau aggregates measures and dimensions by view and calculation type, affecting level of detail and using sum, min, max, count, and count distinct.

Explore row level, dynamic, and level-of-detail aggregations inside calculated fields in Tableau, learn to avoid mixing aggregate and non-aggregate parts, and understand how view context changes results.

Explore common calculation functions in Tableau Desktop, including aggregate, string, logical, date/time calculations, and type conversions, plus how to access them in the calculated field dialog.

Master the core aggregate functions in Tableau Desktop, including sum, avg, max, min, and count. Learn count distinct, null handling, and how level of detail shapes dimensions and measures.

Explore string functions in Tableau Desktop, including contains, length, replace, split, trim, and upper or lower, to parse, clean, and standardize text in calculated fields across data sources.

Explore Tableau desktop logical functions by building if, else if, and case statements to create boolean calculations, handle nulls with tsne, and apply conditional formatting to dashboards.

Master date functions in Tableau Desktop, using today and now anchors, date add and date diff, date name, and truncation to create dynamic year-over-year analyses.

Explore type conversion functions in Tableau to adjust field types within calculations, converting strings to dates, date times, floats, integers, or strings for precise calculations and display.

Explore level of detail expressions in Tableau to control calculation granularity with fixed, include, and exclude lods, and learn how filters affect city and state level metrics.

Learn table calculations in Tableau, a sheet-based computation that runs in the visualization without changing data, with quick table calculations and running totals.

Explore Tableau Desktop table calculation types, including difference from, percent difference from, percent from, percent of total, rank, percentile, running total, and moving calculations.

Learn how table calculation computation works in Tableau, choosing compute using directions (table across, table down) and options (cell, pane, across) to compute percent of total with preview.

Explore addressing and partitioning in Tableau table calculations, defining direction with addressing fields and grouping with partitioning fields to control across, down, and pane level computations.

Explore how parameters in Tableau Desktop provide dynamic values that replace constants in calculations, filters, or reference lines via a user dropdown.

Explore using parameters in Tableau to set dynamic thresholds and top-end filters via calculated fields, enabling end users to adjust values and instantly update colors and views.

Learn to customize parameters in the parameter menu, including naming, data types, and dynamic updates when the workbook opens, with display formats and allowable value options.

Apply Tableau desktop to build calculated fields, table calculations, and parameters for dynamic views. Analyze a recent acquisition to reveal trends and KPIs with level of detail calculations.

Learn to build calculated fields, table calculations, and parameters in Tableau, including distinct policy count, average charge per policy, and top policies with a dynamic parameter.

Design tableau dashboards by combining views, sheets, images, and objects to deliver a holistic data view while balancing purpose, audience, data freshness, and live versus weekly data consumption.

Explore how to build dashboards in Tableau desktop by configuring the dashboard and layout panes, previewing device layouts, and arranging sheets and objects with tiled or floating options.

Explore tiled and floating layouts in Tableau dashboards, compare use cases for mobile and larger canvases, and learn to mix them with containers for efficient, pixel-perfect data visualizations.

Explore dashboard sizing in tableau by comparing fixed, automatic, and range options, and learn to optimize layouts using device designer and a 1200 by 1200 example.

Master dashboard objects in Tableau Desktop by using containers (horizontal and vertical), images, web pages, extensions, export and navigation buttons, text boxes, blanks, and layout techniques.

Master Tableau's formatting options from workbook to worksheet levels, including fonts, shading, alignment, borders, and tooltips. Use right-click to access the format menu and polish dashboards for readability and usability.

Apply workbook level formatting to fonts and lines across all sheets using the format menu, affecting worksheet fonts, tooltips, and titles with options like grid lines and axis rulers.

Master worksheet level formatting in Tableau, applying fonts, shading, borders, and alignment to a single sheet, via format menu or right-click across rows, columns, and totals.

Develop hands-on skills in Tableau Desktop worksheet formatting, including font, alignment, shading, borders, lines, and headers, using the format menu and right-click shortcuts to tailor dashboards.

Learn how to format numbers in Tableau for dashboards, including axis and pane options, currency formats, decimals, display units, and workbook-wide default formatting.

Learn how to use transparent sheets in Tableau to layer visuals over a background image, making sheet backgrounds transparent, and balance design to avoid a cluttered dashboard.

Apply action filters to let end users filter dashboards by selecting visuals. Configure source sheets, target sheets, run on options (hover, select, menu), and clearing behavior.

Explore device designer in Tableau Desktop to create responsive dashboards with desktop, tablet, and mobile views, manage layouts, and optimize for embedded and non-embedded consumption.

Create and tell data narratives by combining dashboards and sheets into stories, using story points, captions, and annotations to drill into data and present an interactive, time-based narrative.

Learn data visualization best practices in Tableau by knowing your audience, keeping dashboards simple and useful, iterating with feedback to deliver clear visuals for end users.

Build a Tableau dashboard and stories to drill down into BEV and PHEV owner data across Washington, with action filters and mobile-ready design for the Washington State Department of Energy.

Walk through the dashboards and stories homework solution, formatting the workbook with Century Gothic and removing grid lines, then building a fixed 1400x800 Washington Bevs and Phevs dashboard with filters.