What is Tableau?

Tableau is the fastly growing and powerful data visualization tool. Tableau is a business intelligence tool which helps us to analyze the raw data in the form of the visual manner; it may be a graph, report, etc.

Example: - If you have any data like Big Data, Hadoop, SQL, or any cloud data and if you want to analyze that given data in the form of pictorial representation of data, you can use Tableau.

Data analysis is very fast with Tableau, and the visualizations created are in the form of worksheets and dashboards. Any professional can understand the data created using Tableau.

Tableau software doesn't require any technical or any programming skills to operate. Tableau is easy and fast for creating visual dashboards.

Why use Tableau?

Here are some reasons to use Tableau:

• Ultimate skill for Data Science
• User-Friendly
• Apply to any Business
• Fast and Easy
• You don't need to do any Coding
• Community is Huge
• Hold the power of data
• It makes it easier to understand and explain the Data Reports

Features of Tableau

• Data Blending: Data blending is the most important feature in Tableau. It is used when we combine related data from multiple data sources, which you want to analyze together in a single view, and represent in the form of a graph.

Example: Assume, we have Sales data in relational database and Sales Target data in an Excel sheet. Now, we have to compare actual sales with target sales, and blend the data based on common dimensions to get access. The two sources which are involved in data blending referred to as primary data and secondary data sources. A left join will be created between the primary data source and the secondary data source with all the data rows from primary and matching data rows from secondary data source to blend the data.

• Real-time analysis: Real-Time Analysis makes users able to quickly understand and analyze dynamic data, when the Velocity is high, and real-time analysis of data is complicated. Tableau can help extract valuable information from fast moving data with interactive analytics.
• The Collaboration of data: Data analysis is not isolating task. That's why Tableau is built for collaboration. Team members can share data, make follow up queries, and forward easy-to-digest visualizations to others who could gain value from the data. Making sure everyone understands the data and can make informed decisions is critical to success.