Speaking Tableau
Rather than a big list of all the terms, let's go through the basic Tableau life cycle.
When you open Tableau Desktop, you start working on a Workbook. After you've finished working, you will save your work in a .twb
or .twbx
file. You can open multiple instances of Tableau, each of them being a different Workbook.
The first page you see when you open Tableau Desktop is the Start page. Here, you can connect to data, open recent workbooks, discover the Viz of the Week, and open your saved data sources quickly.
After choosing your connector (a Comma Separated Values (CSV) file, an Excel file, or a database on a server), Tableau opens the data source workplace. On this page, you create the data source by choosing tables (or sheets) and creating joins, unions, or other transformations. The following screenshot illustrates the Data Source workplace:
When you're done with the Data Source, you can start building a visualization in a Worksheet. Sheet 1 is your first...