2. DATA VISUALIZATION
• What is Tableau?
• Advantage of Tableau
• How Tableau is compare with other BI?
• Which Industry using Tableau?
• Tableau timeline
• 3 requirements for today’s dashboards
• Tableau components
• Tableau architecture
• How to work with Tableau?
3. Data visualization is the presentation of data in a pictorial or
graphical format.
A visual can communicate more information than a table in a much
smaller space.
Businesses around the globe realize that the ability to visualize data
effectively leads directly to better understanding, insight and better
business decisions.
Spreadsheets are hard to Understand
Data visualization makes interpretation easier
DATA VISUALIZATION
4. WHAT IS TABLEAU?
Tableau is the business intelligence software
Any user can connect to the Tableau and
perform the analysis and reporting very
efficiently and accurately
Tableau is easy to use as MS-excel, so that
any user can learn it without any
prerequisites and it is very powerful to solve
the most complex analytical problems
Tableau is having its own patent query
language called as “ViZQL” (visualization
query language)
ViZQL=SQL+ Visualization
6. HOW TABLEAU IS
COMPARE WITH OTHER BI?
Visual analysis
•Tableau perform
the analysis in
the form of
visuals every
time with the
help of ViZQL
Any data source
•Tableau can
connect to any
kind of data
source right
from the text
file to database
Fast performance
•Tableau is
having faster
performance
than any other
BI tool in the
market because
of its state of art
features like
Tableau data
engine, marks
card and
dashboards
Business
integration
•Tableau is the
platform, which
is tightly
coupled with
any kind of
business
Web and mobile
authoring
•After the
development of
data view, we
can share the
report over the
mobile and web
8. WHICH INDUSTRY USING
TABLEAU ?
Every industries started
using Tableau starting
from transportation to
retail
Tableau is used by more
than 25,000 organizations
worldwide because of its
features like drag-and-
drop interface.
Mostly, Tableau is used by
the large companies such
as WalMart, Coca Cola,
Yahoo, ,Ferrai and T-
Mobile.
Tableau
Retail
Banking
Transport
ation
Health
care
Insurance
Manufact
uring
Oil and
gas
Telecom
IT
9. TABLEAU TIMELINE
2005 2006
Achieves 8th
consecutive
quarter of
record growth
Named “Product
of the Year” by
PC Magazine
Achieves 20th
consecutive
quarter of
record growth
Adds 1000
customer
accounts
Launches
Desktop 5.0 &
Server 5.0
#400 on Inc 500
#132 on
Deloitte
Technology
Fast500
20091991
Three
professor
s (Chris,
Pat,
Chabot)
in the
Stanford
university
started
research
to build
visual tool
Achieves 4th
consecutive
quarter of
record sales
Launches
Desktop1.0 –
customers in
every industry
2012
Launches
Tableau 8.0
Launches
Tableau 8.1
2013
Launches
Tableau 8.2
Launches
Tableau 8.3
Launches
Tableau 7.1
Launches
Tableau 7.2
Launches
Tableau 7.3
2014
Launches
Tableau 9.0.1
to
9.0.5
2015
10. 5 REASONS WHY DASHBOARDS MATTER
NOW
1 Right Information to the Right Person
2 Distributed Decision-Making
3 Drill-up and Drill-down
4 Domain Experts Build Analytics
5 Visual, Easy to Understand
16. TABLEAU COMPONENTS
Tableau Desktop
Create
Tableau Server
Share - Web
Tableau Reader
Share - Local
+ Publish interactive
analytics or dashboards
+ Secure information
+ Share visualizations and
dashboards on the
desktop
+ Filter, sort, and page
through the views
+ Free download
+ It is the place where the
complete project
development in the
Tableau will take place
+ Explore, visualize, and
analyze your data
+ Create dashboards to
consolidate multiple
views
Tableau Public
Share - Everyone
+ It is used to share the
report publicly to every
one
+ Free download
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21. TABLEAU ARCHITECTURE
DATA SOURCE
TABLEAU DESKTOP TABLEAU SERVER User
Any database
Creating the
data
views/work
books/dashbo
ards
DATACONNECTION
PUBLISH
Creating the
project
/users/group
s and assign
the
permissions
22. HOW TO WORK WITH TABLEAU
1
•Connect to the data source
2
•Drag and drop the required dimensions
and KPI’s in to rows and columns
3
•Select the required chart in the “Show
me”
4
•Click on Abc
5
•Publish the data views or work book in to
the Tableau Server
24. TABLEAU FILE TYPES
Tableau Workbook (.twb)
Tableau's default way to save work
This includes Information to visualize the data
No source data saved with this file
Tableau Packaged Workbook (.twbx)
This file includes extracted data and workbook information to build visualizations
This file can be shared with others without access to source data
Tableau Data Source (.tds)
This file saves the server address, password, and other metadata related to data source
It will used to access frequently used data sources
Tableau Data Extract (.tde)
Get the data into tableau in memory data engine
This file includes the source data as filtered and aggregated.
It improves the performance and enables more functions
Tableau Bookmark (.tbm)
Sharing worksheets from one workbook to others
This file contains information to visualize and data source if the workbook is packaged workbook
25. TABLEAU DATA TYPES
Text values
Date values
Date and time values
Numerical values
Geographic values (latitude and longitude used for maps)
Boolean values (true/false conditions)