Tableau is a business analytics tool for creating a wide variety of interactive data visualizations. The software is available as a free version as well as a more robust full-scale version. Tableau can be used to create an extensive variety of interactive visualizations that allow users to better explore temporal, spatial, topical, and network data. The drag-and-drop interface makes it easy to explore data without needing any advanced programming skills. Dashboards allow users to combine multiple views of their data into one analytics tool.
At the end of this session, you’ll be able to:
- Connect Excel, Access, TXT, or CSV files to Tableau
- Create a simple visualizations and a dashboard utilizing Tableau
- Embed visualizations into websites or export into a PDF or image file.
Instructor: Tony Nguyen, MLIS
Attendance is limited to 25 people.
HS/HSL, Room #LL05
Registration on the library website: http://www2.hshsl.umaryland.edu/hshsl/workshops/index.cfm