Tableau Workshop Handout

90 minutes
E. Patrick Rashleigh, Data Visualization Coordinator, patrick_rashleigh@brown.edu

Outline

1. Tableau in action: gallery
2. Load some data (together)
   (CIA World Factbook)
3. Put together a simple visualization (together)
4. Bring in some more data (together and on your own)
5. Explore using filters (together and on your own)

Links

• Tableau home
• Brown Tableau links (courtesy CIS):
  • Get Tableau @ Brown
  • Tableau Knowledgebase articles
• Tableau (non-campus) pricing
  • Note that students and instructors are free, and there is educational pricing.
  • Tableau Public
    Free. Only saves to Tableau servers (in the cloud) – up to 10 GB of space. All saved visualizations have a public URL, but you can choose to hide it. Still, if you have sensitive data, this would be an issue.
  • Tableau Creator
    Includes Tableau Desktop (can save locally on your hard drive) and Tableau Prep (data cleaning).
• Tableau training — also see the Starter Kit