Hi, everyone.
Welcome back.
So are you ready for part two of the course?
Visualizing data.
The good thing about Tableau is that it is quite easy to learn and not as technical as Python.
So this is a much more easy user interface.
It's designed to actually have your business uses, are developing your dashboards.
So there is very little in terms of programming and coding.
Now Tableau Public is a 100% free tool.
It is quite limited when you compare it to Tableau as paid product, which is the Tableau desktop edition.
But it does what we wanted to do, which is create a dashboard using the files that we created in our
projects.
So when you're ready, you can open Tableau Public and it just want to give you a tour of this interface.
So generally when you open Tableau public, you'll see this.
If you don't and if you see something like this, you can just click the tableau icon on the left and
this shows you the start page.
Okay, so over here you have your connect section and here you can choose what data sources you want
to connect.
Okay.
There's only about six data sources you can connect.
They're all flat files or static files.
You can also connect to our data, which is a connector, and you can connect to Google Drive, Google
Sheets and the Web data connector.
So in this course, we're just going to be connecting to flight files.
Like I said, Tableau is a free version of the Tableau desktop.
Over here, the limitation with Tableau public is that you can't save your workbook locally.
All right?
You can't save this on your local computer when you're working on it.
You need to save it online.
The other thing to note for Tableau desktop versus Tableau Public.
Tableau Public, like I said, you can only connect to limited data sources or as Tableau desktop.
There's quite a lot of data sources you can connect to.
You can connect to cloud databases like Enterprise and Snowflake and as you as well as many others.
And usually when you start creating files in Tableau dashboards in Tableau Public, there'll be a history
of the dashboards you create, which is why the space is white here.
And on the right hand side is your discovery pane.
So this is where you can discover some more videos and tutorials.
Okay, so this is just some extra learning resources.
There's also a bus of the day, so usually Tableau will choose an interesting visualization from Tableau
Public.
And then some other additional reading material.
It's also some nice sample data sets that you can play around with as well.
If you do want to learn a bit more about Tableau.
Okay.
So that is the tour.
And in the next lecture we'll actually connect to our first project dataset, which is the Value Inc
transactional sales data, and it will start building our charts.
So I'm going to end up here and I'll see in the next lecture by.