You don't need to do this now, but I'm telling you so you can play around with it later if you want, 2. What is this dataset? What information do you have?Īdvanced: You can click on some different places in the column headers to format your data inside Tableau, including telling Tableau what kind of data you have. Look at your data! It should look like a spreadsheet. Then navigate to the file you downloaded earlier and double-click to open it. Even though our Iowa Arts Council Grants file opens in Excel, it's saved as a CSV. Getting your dataĪfter opening Tableau, you're presented with a list of file types you can choose to work with ("connect").
For this exercise, you will need the Iowa Arts Council Grants data CSV file.
#TABLEAU PUBLIC TUTORIAL HOW TO#
At the end of this tutorial, you'll find information on how to publish it to the web. We will use it today to make two charts, which we'll combine into a dashboard. However, you do not need to create an account in order to use Tableau Public. That means they will be freely available on the web, and you will need to create a Tableau account in order to do this. It's free to download and use, but, aside from screenshots, the only way to share Tableau Public visualizations is to publish them to the Tableau Public website. There are several things to be aware of with regard to Tableau Public. Tableau Public is the free version of this tool. Tableau is a powerful data visualization tool, in heavy use among both laypeople and data professionals. Miriam Posner's "Getting Started with Tableau" tutorial. Getting started with Tableau Public About this Tutorial: Dr.