What is Tableau?
Tableau is a software company and it produces interactive data visualization products, which are focused on business intelligence.
Tableau Software is a Pictorial analytics platform transforming the way to solve problems and organizations to make their data in understandable views(graphical representation).
Tableau is one of the fastest-growing data visualization companies which is currently used in the BI industry. Tableau is one of the data visualization tools that provide the best way to change or transform the raw data into the pictorial analytics format with easily understandable and no technical skills and coding knowledge.
Tableau software is used listed below:
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Business Intelligence
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Data Visualization
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To manage large size metadata
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Data Blending
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Data Collaboration
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To create no-code data queries
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Real-time data analysis
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Query translation into visualization
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To import large size of data
Why use Tableau software when a lot of tools are available to perform data visualization?
By using Tableau we can analyze the data very quickly. Also, by using visualizations we can generate dashboards and worksheets. Tableau allows creating dashboards that help to provide actionable insights and drive the business successfully. Using this software to explore data with infinite visual analytics.
Features of Tableau Software:
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Tableau Dashboard
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Collaboration and Sharing
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Live and In-memory Data
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Data Sources in Tableau
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Advanced Visualizations
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Mobile View
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Revision History
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Licensing Views
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Subscribe others
A Tableau Desktop helps to create interactive workbooks and dashboards, We can publish, share and administrate with the help of the Tableau server.
What is Data Visualization in Tableau?
Data Visualization is a Graphical representation of a dataset or information using Heatmaps, Treemap, Bargraphs, Linegraphs, charts, and other visual elements
Data Visualization helps in easy understanding of the insights, trends, patterns, and other connections in a Dataset.
Connect to Salesforce data
Go to Tableau under Connect, then select Salesforce. Select More under To a Server. Then do the Below:
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Sign-in credentials for Salesforce.com.
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Select Log In.
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Under Allow Access dialog box, then select Allow.
How does Tableau work?
The main advantage of Tableau connecting to a wide variety of data, stored in a variety of places It can Snatch data from any platform.
Tableau can extract any data from any database.
Sample Dashboard in Tableau
https://trailhead.salesforce.com/en/content/learn/modules/learn-about-tableau
