{"id":8760,"date":"2021-08-19T10:43:31","date_gmt":"2021-08-19T08:43:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/careerfoundry.inbearbeitung.de\/en\/?p=8760"},"modified":"2021-08-19T10:55:25","modified_gmt":"2021-08-19T08:55:25","slug":"what-is-tableau","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/careerfoundry.inbearbeitung.de\/en\/blog\/data-analytics\/what-is-tableau\/","title":{"rendered":"What Is Tableau and How Is It Used by Data Analysts?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tableau is one of the biggest data visualization tools around. Learn more about Tableau\u2014as well as how data analysts use it\u2014in this guide.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

If you\u2019re new to the world of data analysis and business intelligence, you\u2019ll quickly find there are a lot of new words and processes thrown at you on a daily basis. It won\u2019t be long until Tableau becomes an important word in your vocabulary. What is Tableau, exactly? We\u2019ll go over that in this post, as well as looking at the different ways that data analysts use it. Want to skip ahead? Just use the clickable menu.<\/span><\/p>\n

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  1. What is Tableau?<\/span><\/a>\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n
  2. What are the Tableau products?<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n
  3. How do data analysts use Tableau?<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n
  4. Key takeaways and further reading<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    With that, let\u2019s proceed.<\/span><\/p>\n

    1. What is Tableau? A brief history<\/span><\/h2>\n

    At its core, Tableau is a <\/span>data visualization tool<\/span><\/a>,<\/b> founded by three Stamford students as a result of a computer science project in 2003. Tableau was created with a guiding philosophy to make data understandable to ordinary people.<\/span><\/p>\n

    It\u2019s considered to be the most popular visualization platform in the industry, well regarded within the business intelligence community for its ease of use and simple functionalities, which make it easy to create insightful dashboards in a few clicks. It is an end-to-end platform, designed with both data analysts and business users in mind.<\/span><\/p>\n

    2. What are the Tableau products?\u00a0<\/span><\/h2>\n

    Tableau has a wide range of products that support the user through the entire <\/span>data analysis process<\/span><\/a>, from data preparation to sharing, with governance and data management support along the way. Tableau makes new releases on a quarterly basis, with updates and patch releases on a regular basis.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

    Some of the Tableau products include:<\/span><\/p>\n