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Visual Analytics with Tableau

Visual Analytics with Tableau is a complete journey in Tableau visualization for a non-technical business user. You can start from zero, connect your first data, and get right into creating and publishing awesome visualizations and insightful dashboards.

Learning Tableau : leverage the power of Tableau 9.0 to design rich data visualizations and build fully interactive dashboards

If you want to understand your data using data visualization and don't know where to start, then this is the book for you. Whether you are a beginner or have years of experience, this book will help you to quickly acquire the skills and techniques used to discover, analyze, and communicate data visually. Some familiarity with databases and data structures is helpful, but not required.

What is Tableau?

From connection through collaboration, Tableau is the most powerful, secure, and flexible end-to-end analytics platform for your data. Elevate people with the power of data. Designed for the individual, but scaled for the enterprise, Tableau is the only business intelligence platform that turns your data into insights that drive action. 

Download Tableau Public


Tableau SoftwareTableau Public is a free version of Tableau visualization software. It allows you to use most of the software functions. You can create visualizations and connect to CSV, Text and Excel documents. To begin downloading the app:

  1. Go to the following page: https://public.tableau.com/en-us/s/ 
  2. Enter your email address in the applicable field, and then 
  3. Click "DOWNLOAD THE APP" button.

An .executable (.exe) file will download automatically on your computer and the installation should begin by asking you to agree to Tableau's terms and conditions.  Once you agree to the terms and conditions, you can proceed to install the application and begin your journey to learning Tableau!

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