Introduction to Tableau Desktop
Now, that you have identified and chosen Tableau Desktop for the creation of your visuals and dashboards, let's dive deeper into the product, its interface, and its functionality. So, once you have downloaded and installed the product, you will be able to use the products to connect to your data and start building your visualizations.
The landing page of Tableau Desktop is shown in the following screenshot:
Review the following list for explanations of the highlighted sections in the screenshot:
- Connect: The list of data sources you can connect to. You can connect to data residing on Tableau Server (the
Search for Data
option); to flat files, such as Excel and CSVs (theTo a File
option); or to databases (theTo a Server
option). Tableau has native in-built connectors for a lot of the data sources, which makes the interaction with data from...