

If you are unable to install the software, please contact Lorin Bruckner for help. Please follow the instructions below to download and install Tableau. NOTE: This workshop requires you to bring a laptop with Tableau installed. In this workshop, participants will create basic visualizations and an interactive dashboard in Tableau Public. Tableau’s drag-and-drop interface provides tools to build a variety of visualizations with no coding required, and visualizations can be embedded in websites by copying and pasting embed code.

The Discover side bar provides you with links to the Tableau training videos, blog, forums, and Tableau Prep (a data cleaning and prepping software).Tableau is a user-friendly software application used to create static or interactive visualizations and dashboards. Clicking on “More Samples” will lead you to a gallery of downloadable sample workbooks. This section provides you with sample workbooks that you can open to play around in and see how they were built. This area is where you can find recent workbooks opened and quickly load them in if you want to work on them. *The posts helping you build visualizations in Tableau use Sample - Superstore. When you click the samples, they will automatically load without you needing to find the files.

When you download the software, Tableau also provides you a repository folder which also holds these clean sample data sets as excel files. These are sample data sets that Tableau provides. Tableau can connect to multiple different servers such as Oracle, PostgreSQL, Azure, Dropbox, and more. You’ll usually use this section if you’re working for a company that uses specific servers. If you download, make, or have a data set in an excel file, csv file, or more, this is where you can bring in your data source you want to use. This section on your start page indicates where you can connect to your data files saved on your computer.
