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What is Tableau used for?

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Tableau is a data visualization tool that enables you to create interactive and apt visualizations in the form of dashboards, worksheets to gain business insights for the better development of your company. It allows non-technical users to easily create customized dashboards that provide insight to a broad spectrum of information.

  • Tableau is a powerful and fastest-growing data visualization tool used in the Business Intelligence Industry
  • The Tableau Product Suite consists of 1) Tableau Desktop 2) Tableau Public 3) Tableau Online 4) Tableau Server and Tableau Reader
  • Tableau Desktop has a rich feature set and allows you to code and customize reports
  • In Tableau public, workbooks created cannot be saved locally, in turn, it should be saved to the Tableau's public cloud which can be viewed and accessed by anyone
  • Tableau server is specifically used to share the workbooks, visualizations that are created in the Tableau Desktop application across the organization
  • Tableau online has all the similar functionalities of the Tableau Server, but the data is stored on servers hosted in the cloud which are maintained by the Tableau group.
  • Tableau Reader is a free tool that allows you to view the workbooks and visualizations created using Tableau Desktop or Tableau Public.
  • Tableau connects and extracts the data stored in various places. It can pull data from any platform imaginable.
  • The spreadsheet application used for manipulating the data while Tableau is a perfect visualization tool used for analysis

You can find all the Tableau basics and features of Tableau that enable you to do some amazing things in this blog. Kindly go through the blog if you haven’t yet. I am pretty sure that you will find it quite useful.

You can refer to Tableau Training as it will help you in preparing for a career as Software Developer, BI Professional, System and IT Administrator. Most data Scientists appreciate the horsepower of Tableau Desktop paired with the Online or Server versions of the software. Also, you can take a look at this video too.

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