The document provides an overview of Tableau, a business intelligence software that facilitates data visualization and analysis for users across various industries. It outlines its ease of use, advantages over other BI tools, and its timeline of development, as well as the significance of dashboards in today's data-driven decision-making. Tableau connects to a wide range of data sources and features a user-friendly interface, making it a popular choice for large organizations worldwide.

1. INTRODUCTION
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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

5. ADVANTAGES OF TABLEAU
Beyond
Reporting
Step 3
See the
Answer
Step 2
User
Interface
Step 1Plug and play
Beyond
reporting
User Interface
See the
answer

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

7. GARTNER MAGIC QUADRANT FOR BI

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

11. DASHBOARDS
SUFFER FROM
POOR
VISUALIZATION

12. EVERYDAY
BUSINESS
INTELLIGENCE

13. DATA EXPLORATION

14. INTELLIGENT VISUALIZATION

15. ANALYTICS EVERYWHERE

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

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

23. TABLEAU DESKTOP START PAGE

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)

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