UNIVERSITY INSTITUTE OF COMPUTING

MASTER OF COMPUTER APPLICATIONS

DATA ANALYTICS
23CAH-725

UNIT-1 DISCOVER . LEARN . EMPOWER

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 Introduction to Tableau
Course Outcome
CO Number Title Level
CO1 Identify the core concepts and tech- Remember
nologies of data analytics

Will be covered in this

lecture

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Tableau is a powerful data visualization
software that allows users to create
interactive and shareable dashboards,
reports, and visualizations. It's widely
used across industries for its user-
friendly interface and robust analytical
capabilities.
Data Connection: Tableau can connect to various data sources, including
databases, spreadsheets, cloud services, and big data sources. It allows you to
bring in data from multiple sources and combine them for analysis.

Data Visualization: Tableau offers a drag-and-drop interface for creating

visualizations. Users can simply drag fields onto shelves to create charts,
graphs, maps, and other visualizations. It provides a wide range of visualization
options to represent data effectively.

Dashboard Creation: Users can combine multiple visualizations into interactive

dashboards. Dashboards allow stakeholders to explore data dynamically, filter
information, and gain insights at a glance. Tableau's dashboard interface is
intuitive and allows for customization to suit specific needs.
Analytics and Calculations: Tableau enables users to perform complex calculations, statistical
analysis, and predictive modeling directly within the software. It offers a variety of built-in
functions and advanced analytics capabilities to derive insights from data.

Sharing and Collaboration: Tableau allows users to share their visualizations and dashboards
with others through Tableau Server or Tableau Online. This facilitates collaboration and
ensures that insights are accessible to relevant stakeholders across an organization.

Mobile Compatibility: Tableau visualizations are responsive and can be viewed on various
devices, including desktops, tablets, and smartphones. This ensures that insights are accessible
to users on the go.

Community and Support: Tableau has a large and active user community, providing resources
such as forums, user groups, and online tutorials. Additionally, Tableau offers comprehensive
support resources, including documentation, training programs, and consulting services.
Why use Tableau?

• Tableau is the fastest and most powerful visualization

tool. It is very easy to use. There are no complex
formulas like Excel and other visualization tools. It
provides the features like cleaning, organizing, and
visualizing data, it easier to create interactive visual
analytics in the form of dashboards. These dashboards
make it easier for non-technical analysts and end-users
to convert data into understandable ones.
Tableau Features
• Tableau supports powerful data discovery and
exploration that enables users to answer important
questions in seconds
• No prior programming knowledge is needed; users
without relevant experience can start immediately with
creating visualizations using Tableau
• It can connect to several data sources that other BI
tools do not support. Tableau enables users to create
reports by joining and blending different datasets
• Tableau Server supports a centralized location to
manage all published data sources within an
organization
Values in Tableau
There are two types of values in the tableau:
• Dimensions: Values that are discrete(which can
not change with respect to time) in nature called
Dimension in tableau. Example: city name, product
name, country name.
• Measures: Values that are continuous(which can
change with respect to time) in nature called Measure in
tableau. Example: profit, sales, discount, population.
Advantages of Tableau
• Quick calculation- All the calculations on the tableau done by the
backend, so it is relatively faster than any other tool.
• Interactive dashboards– Tableau dashboards are very interactive and
easy to draw.
• No manual calculation- All the calculations are done by the tableau
only. There is no manual calculation, but in some specific cases, we
used calculated fields for calculation.
• A large amount of data- Tableau can handle a large amount of data.
Different types of visualization can be created with a large amount of
data without impacting the performance of the dashboards.
Disadvantages of Tableau
• High Cost- tableau is a paid tool for visualization, and it is
a reason why people are not using tableau so much.
• Static and single value parameters- Tableau’s parameters
are static and always single value can be selected using a
parameter. Whenever the data gets changed, these
parameters need to be updated manually every time.
• Limited Data Preprocessing- Tableau is strictly a
visualization tool. Tableau Desktop allows you to do very
basic preprocessing.
Start Page

The start page in Tableau Desktop could also be a

central location from which you’ll do the following:
• Connect to your data
• Open your last used workbooks, and
• Discover and explore content produced by the Tableau community.

The start page consists of three panes: Connect, Open,

and Discover.
Connect
• Connect to data and open saved data sources.
• On the Connect pane, you’ll do the following:

Connect to data:
• Under To a File, attach with data stored in Microsoft Excel files, text files, Access files, Tableau extract files,
and statistical files, like SAS, SPSS, and R.
• Under To a Server, attach with data stored in databases like Microsoft SQL Server or Oracle.
• The server names listed during this section change supported which servers you attach with and therefore
the way often.

Open saved data sources:

• Quickly open data sources that you simply have previously saved to your My Tableau Repository directory.
• Also, Tableau provides sample saved data sources that you simply can use to explore Tableau Desktop
functionality.
•· To follow in conjunction with examples within the Tableau Desktop documentation, you’ll usually use
the Sample – Superstore data source.
Open
• Open recent workbooks, pin workbooks to the start page, and explore
sample workbooks.
• On the Open pane, you’ll do the following:

Open recently opened workbooks:

• Once you open Tableau Desktop for the primary time, this pane is empty.
• As you create and save new workbooks, the foremost recently opened
workbooks appear here.
• Click the workbook thumbnail to open a workbook, or if you are doing not
see a workbook thumbnail, click the Open a Workbook link to hunt out
other workbooks that are saved to your computer.
 Pin workbooks:
• You’ll pin workbooks to the beginning page by
clicking the pin icon that appears within the top-left
corner of the workbook thumbnail.
• Pinned workbooks always appear on the start page,
albeit they weren’t opened recently. to get rid of a
recently opened or pinned workbook, hover over the
workbook thumbnail, then click the “x” that appears.
• The workbook thumbnail is removed immediately
but will show again alongside your last used workbooks
subsequent time you open Tableau Desktop.
Explore sample workbooks:
• Open and explore sample workbooks.
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