DATA VISUALIZATION
Introduction to Tableau
AGENDA
• Need of data visualization
• Journey of Business Intelligence (BI)
• What is Tableau?
• DEMO
WHY ARE WE HERE TODAY?
• We need to be
• Decision Driven
• Supported by factual evidence in data
THIS IS HOW WE READ REPORTS
THEN CAME GRAPHS (OUR USE MATURED)
LET’S STATE THE OBVIOUS
• Technology has matured
• Our use has matured
• Our needs have evolved
• As humans,
• we are wired to learn faster visually than any
other means
• we need tools that relate closely with our Natural
Senses to understand the world around us
• we like the phrase,
• “A Picture is worth a 1,000 words!”
• A Case for data visualization
WHAT IS DATA VISUALIZATION
• A clear portrayal of complex relationships
• with insight in behaviors, not pictures
• it is no longer a function of the specialists
• WHY is it IMPORTANT?
• Speed - time to value
• Empowers business users
• Enables self-driven data discovery
• IT does what it knows best, you do what you
know best
ACTUAL CUSTOMER REQUIREMENTS
Our users are traditionally used to a lot of reporting services reports - is there an elegant way to connect Tableau
with reporting services and automatically pass parameters and data between the two?
Can I set up data driven alerts which trigger emails and/or other behavior? Can we schedule email of a dashboard
without a data driven event?
Can I get a 3D bar chart or pie chart?
It seems that I can apply gradient color on tables. Can I just apply it just on specific columns, instead of the whole
table?
Do you have an excel plugin to use PivotTables in Excel on your data?
Report bursting Ability to send the reports across to multiple Users.
Exports to Other Formats( PDF, Data view to be exported to various format for in-depth Analysis
Excel, PDF,CSV, etc)
export interactive PivotTables Ability to export interactive PivotTables to Excel
WHAT IS TABLEAU
• A Self-Service BI tool (SSBI) that can render your
data in quick, easy to consume way
• It takes the guess work out of many of the report
generation tasks
WHERE DOES TABLEAU FIT IN?
Databases ETL Spatial Advanced Analytics Data Mart Rapid BI
Star
Extract
Spatial Schema
Federate Analyze
Source Enrichment Statistics Archive
Transform Visually
Systems & Prediction Time Slice
Cleanse
Operations What-If
Enrich
Real-Time
Oracle
SQL Talend ArcGIS SAS Composite Tableau
Server
Open Source
R/Rattle UI
“Free”
Excel
Freemium+ Lavastorm
trial available
Alteryx
incomplete list. There are many solutions in the marketplace. Warehousing is an activity achieved along the way after ETL. This is merel
WHY TABLEAU
• Best of breed, industry leading and FUN data
visualization.
• Unleashing business intelligence for the subject
matter expert
• Use complimentary tools for:
• Complex, unstructured data sources including XML
• Geocoding deeper than postal code
• Generation of polygons for sales territories or trade
areas
• Demographic and behavioral analysis
• Advanced statistics using R
• Additional tools to perform ETL-like processes
beyond the Tableau data re-shaper and to handle
cleansing, MDM
DEMO
QUESTIONS?
THANK YOU!