Introduction and installation

What is Tableau

Tableau is a data analysis and visualisation software. To get a sense of what you can do with Tableau you can browse this library.

Generally speaking, Tableau can be used to for these tasks:

Read relatively large datasets of different formats;
Clean (or prepare) your data;
Explore your data;
Connect your data (so this table with city population with that table with city pollution);
Visualise your data through static or interactive (on a website) visualisation;
Reporting and story telling with your data.

You can download and install your educational copy following this instructions.

A great way to get started is

Ryan Sleeper. (2018).* Practical Tableau*. O’Reilly Media, Inc. (access it from the UTS Library website)