Introduction to Tableau | How Tableau Works | Tableau Courses

hello and welcome to tutorials point my name is Pavan Lalwani and the instructor for tableau itself in this video we'll see an introduction about the tableau what is a tableau what are the advantages of using a tableau and what are different types of charts and reports we can create with help of tableau let us see that now first of all what is a tableau tableau is basically a business intelligence tool which helps us to analyze the data in the form of visual manner maybe a graph reports and etc now it's the definition of tableau very lengthy I'll make it short for you suppose if you have a database in Microsoft Excel this kind of data it can be any database I am just taking an example it can be Big Data it can be Hadoop SQL any cloud database which is given here if you want to analyze this data in the form of this type of different types of graphs or reports you can use tableau it's a very very powerful tool now what are the different types of tools which are offered by tableau there are five different major tools which offered one is the tableau desktop second is the tableau online tableau server tableau reader and the tableau public the first two tools which is tableau desktop and tablet online is used to create different types of reports and the last three tools are used for publishing the report obviously when you create you want somebody to see that report in your company as your colleagues as a CEO anybody who ever wants to see this reports they can use the last three options here so it's a very very easy and powerful tool tabular has a very good compatibility with different types of database it can be connected to spreadsheets to database to Big Data and different types of cloud system almost 50 plus different types of database you can connect now when you create different types of reports you want to be published on different devices it supports your desktop your tablet and your mobile phones so it has a compatibility features where you can adjust the layout you can adjust the font size and etc all these things now let us try to understand how tableau recognizes data and how it distinguishes so I will just take an example of Microsoft Excel how the reports are prepared in Microsoft Excel so this is a Microsoft Excel database if you want to create a summarized report a graph a pie chart anything you have to first create a pie or table when you create the pie bode table you see these are the fields all the column headings have been taken into one place and you can create a report by using this filters columns rows and values these are different things which you can use how tableau recognizes this database tableau when you open any database this is just an example of Excel it can be a SQL it can be MS access anything it divides into two parts one is the dimensions and second is the measures whatever you have the text the dates or geographical things it will be considered as dimensions whatever we have the numbers figures float values that will be considered as measures so when you see this tableau that's a tableau user interface if you see tableau considers into two different parts one is this dimensions and second is the measures part so if you see the upper part there is nothing but the day the textual thing and the geographical requirements here whereas in the measures part you can see these are nothing but the numbers or the calculated fields using this dimension and measures you can create different types of charts in tableau tableau supports 24 different types of charts which you can create and what are those different types of chart let us see that one by one you can create a bar chart stacked bar chart you can create a pie chart line chart scatter chart you can also create different types of packed bubble chart you can create a word map you can create three maps waterfall charts India map US map basic funnel chart advanced panel chart these are different types of chart which you can create here not only this it looks easy for you to recognize the data but it takes hardly 30 seconds to create any type of chart 30 seconds the only thing you need a practice and you need to keep on watching different types of videos in this place now along with this there are many results why you should go for tableau let us see that first thing is it has a great speed which you can use second thing is it's a user friendly it has a beautiful and interactive dashboard which can work with also it has a direct connection with multiple database next is it is easy publishing and sharing with any person sitting all across the world with your colleagues with your manager anything and also it has a growing market all across the world not only this Gartner is one of the company which analyzes different types of BI tools all across the world it has also proven that tableau is one of the best products all across the world itself not only this year but from last five years it is only top position so in this video we have seen what exactly is a tableau what are different types of tableau products available in the market what are different types of charts we can prepare what are the different types of database we can connect with do so I hope you understood that's all for this video

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Length: 4min 27sec (267 seconds)

Published: Mon Jan 22 2018