All About Tableau

What is Tableau?

Tableau is a Business Intelligence / Analyst tool that enables users to analyze, manipulate, visualize and share data.
It was developed as a tool for a user to create graphics without a programming or tech heavy background.

"[the founders] basically combined the structured query language (SQL) with graphics and invented a database visualization language called VizQL, i.e. Visual Query Language.

Tableau converts the relational databases, cubes, cloud database, and spreadsheets to dashboards and shares over the internet." (1)

Tableau was founded in 2003 by a group of Stanford students- Chris Stolte, Pat Hanrahan, and Christian Chabot. It was acquired by Salesforce in 2019. (2)

Once data is selected, prepped, and modeled in Python/ R. This data set is then able to be exported to Tableau. Data can be continually added without losing integrity.

What are the main alternatives or competitors to this tool/library?
Excel
PowerBI
More robust than either of these.

Advantages
One of the advantages to Tableau is that requires minimal coding skills. It can help provide answers to specific questions. It is also user friendly when it comes to data integration and manipulation.

Something interesting to note - you cant use tableau in python, there isn't a module for it. But you can use python in tableau.

Tutorials

Dashboard examples:

Tableau Tutorial For Beginners – Learn What is Tableau Data Visualization. (n.d.). Retrieved June 14, 2022, from https://data-flair.training/blogs/tableau-tutorial/
What is tableau? Tableau. (n.d.). Retrieved June 14, 2022, from https://www.tableau.com/why-tableau/what-is-tableau