Tableau Introduction Video Lecture Transcript
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14:37:34 Hi! Everybody! Welcome back in this video. We'll introduce tableau.
14:37:39 The last section of our Mini course on data visualization.
14:37:43 So what is tableau? It's a data visualization software.
14:37:46 We can think of it like excel, but for data, visualization it's owned by salesforce.
14:37:52 I believe it utilizes a graphic user interface or gui to enable data visualization meaning something.
14:37:59 You interact with instead of typing up code it's got a lot of drag and drop in her iter interactions as well as clicking on various buttons and tabs to make things work it's utilized in many companies for data analysis and data visualization so it's a good
14:38:14 thing, to know if you're looking to apply to roles, particularly in business intelligence, as well as data analytics.
14:38:22 So if you're interested in seeing some motivating examples, it can be useful to click this link which takes you to a list of trending visualizations and tabau public, which is what we'll be using.
14:38:37 So tableau public is a free online, a free version of of tableau, which is the version one'll be using.
14:38:46 It's a free version of Tabau but it's also sort of a community where you can post the visualizations you make with tableau, and if you go to this, link, you can see some examples.
14:38:55 So, as I was saying, tableau public, why are we using this?
14:38:59 Well, regular tableau is an enterprise software, so it costs money.
14:39:03 So I don't want to require anybody to spend money.
14:39:06 To learn tableau. Luckily they have a free version, which is tableau, public.
14:39:11 If you can see here the desktop app looks like this.
14:39:16 On, Mac. When we open it. And in the next video we'll see how to get started with tableau, public and download the app.
14:39:23 So we're gonna be using this version. It doesn't have all the functionality of regular tableau, but it has enough for you to get started and probably feel comfortable saying that you know tableau on your resume.
14:39:33 So if that with that being said, we're now introduced to this section of the Mini course.
14:39:39 And in the next video we'll go ahead and get started.