Tableau data Visualization (1) Overview of Tableau

1. Overview of Tableau 1. Data visualization

Data visualization includes scientific visualization, information visualization and visual analysis. In a narrow sense, data visualization can be understood as chart presentation, "telling stories with charts". Using chart analysis has the following characteristics:

Convey the information quickly, pay attention to the focus, show the relevant relationship more clearly, make the expression of the information vivid and vivid.

Through data visualization, in order to find three things:

Pattern: that is, a certain regular relationship in the data: that is, the correlation between the influencing factors, but also refers to the abnormal association between the graphs: that is, problem data 2. Tableau introduction

Tableau is a business intelligence analysis software. Official website address: https://www.tableau.com/

The five products of the Tableau family:

Tableau desktop: suitable for individual users Tableau server: suitable for cooperation between organizations Tableau online: suitable for cloud business intelligence Tableau reader: read saved files on Tableau desktop Tableau public places: suitable for news writers or any user to publish interactive data online 3. Tableau design process

Step 1. Connect to the data source

Step 2. Build a data view

Step 3. Enhanced view

Step 4. Create a worksheet

Step 5. Create and organize dashboards

Step 6. Create a story