Downloading and installing Tableau Public.
If you don't already have access to Tableau you can get a free version of Tableau called Tableau Public
which has most of the features of Tableau Desktop.
It's available for Windows and Mac and the only thing you need to do to install it is to enter your
email.
Click download the app and you need to have administrator access to your computer.
So some people who have work computers may find that their I.T. department doesn't allow them to install
software.
And so in that case you either have to work with your I.T. department or find a different computer.
I go here to this public dot tablet com website and I'll put the link in the resources for this video
and I click download the app and then I just wait for the download while I'm waiting for that download
to complete.
I'm going to go over to a different browser tab and look at this tableau for students.
And so here it says that I can get Tableau Desktop and Tableau prep for free if I'm a student and so
when you click this button then basically you need to give tableau information to demonstrate that you
really are a student and then you'll be able to get a one year license to activate Tableau Desktop and
Tableau Prep.
So those are the three options.
You can obviously also pay for a license but I'm thinking that most people would prefer to start with
a free option
once the download finishes I double click and then just go through the prompts
and so once the download and installation are complete I go to my start menu and startup Tableau Public.