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Data Analysis and Visualizations

John Phillips, MBA Program Administrator / Data Analyst

What is Tableau? - Tableau is an industry leading business intelligence tool that focuses on data visualization, dashboarding and data discovery. - It allows you to work on live data-sets, spend more time on data analysis rather than data wrangling as well as drill down into data while having a visually impactful presentation that can be easily understood by any user.

Utilizing Tableau ◇ Tableau Desktop Fully functional business

intelligence and data visualization tool that can be used by anyone.

Desktop allows users to perform real-time data analytics by directly connecting to a multitude of data warehouses.

◇ Tableau Public Free version of the software

that focuses primarily on creating visualizations.

The main downside to this version is your work has to be saved to the public Tableau server which can be accessed by anyone.

◇ Tableau Online Hosted version of the desktop

version which allows for cloud-based data analysis.

Tableau Desktop dashboards can also be published directly to Tableau Online in order to share with colleagues.

Accessing Tableau ◇ Tableau Reader Fully functional business intelligence

and data visualization tool that can be used by anyone.

Desktop allows users to perform real-time data analytics by directly connecting to a multitude of data warehouses.

◇ Tableau Server Free version of the software that

focuses primarily on creating visualizations.

The main downside to this version is your work has to be saved to the public Tableau server which can be accessed by anyone.

Tableau Desktop UI

Accounting - Mileage Report

Mileage Heatmap

Payroll - Overtime Hours

Trending Overtime & Heatmap

iServ - Productivity & Service Data

Day in the Life Dashboard

iServ - Client Demographics

Geographic Analysis

Resources ◇ Tableau Free Training

￭ https://www.tableau.com/learn/training ◇ Tableau Starter Kits

￭ https://www.tableau.com/learn/starter-kits ◇ Tableau Community

￭ https://www.tableau.com/community ◇ Tableau Public Gallery

￭ https://public.tableau.com/s/gallery