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Tableau desktop overview

Tableau desktop overview

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Tableau desktop overview

- [Instructor] Now let's take a look at Tableau Desktop, and try to understand it a little bit better. So Tableau Desktop is the core product of Tableau that can import and enhance data, and it allows you to visually explore it and then publish it out online for collaboration. And the way it works is, first we have our data sources, and Tableau Desktop can connect to almost any data source you have including flat files, like CSV files, R data files, databases like SQL server, and cloud sources like Salesforce and Google Analytics, so it really aims to please here and work with any type of data that you may come across, and in fact, even letting you combine multiple types of data in the same workbook to analyze them together. And when you connect, you can either do a live connection, where the data is real time and queried every time you make a change, or you can extract it, creating an offline copy to work from. The extracts are often faster, but can become a bit unwieldy in size if…

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