Description
You have a dataset and a story to tell, but Excel's charts only go so far, and building an interactive dashboard people can click, filter and drill into seems to mean learning to code or paying for a BI license.
Tableau Public is Tableau's free edition. Bring in Excel, CSV, JSON, Access or Google Sheets data, drag fields onto the canvas and the chart builds itself, then combine views into an interactive dashboard and publish it to the Tableau Public site, where anyone can open, click and filter it in a browser.
It's a favorite for data journalism, blogs and portfolios, and the site is full of other people's public work and datasets to learn from. The one catch is that workbooks and data live publicly on Tableau Public, so it's not for confidential data.
Many data sources: Excel, text files, JSON, Access, spatial and statistical files, plus Google Sheets, OData and web data connectors.
Drag-and-drop charts: drop dimensions and measures onto rows and columns and a fitting chart appears, switching between bars, lines, maps and scatter plots.
Interactive dashboards: combine views with filters, parameters and actions so viewers can explore on their own.
Multiple tables: connect several sources and tables in one workbook for combined analysis.
Publish and share: push work to Tableau Public and share a link or embed it in a blog or site.
Inspiration and datasets: browse featured visualizations and public datasets to learn from.
Tableau Public is Tableau's free edition. Bring in Excel, CSV, JSON, Access or Google Sheets data, drag fields onto the canvas and the chart builds itself, then combine views into an interactive dashboard and publish it to the Tableau Public site, where anyone can open, click and filter it in a browser.
It's a favorite for data journalism, blogs and portfolios, and the site is full of other people's public work and datasets to learn from. The one catch is that workbooks and data live publicly on Tableau Public, so it's not for confidential data.
Features
Many data sources: Excel, text files, JSON, Access, spatial and statistical files, plus Google Sheets, OData and web data connectors.
Drag-and-drop charts: drop dimensions and measures onto rows and columns and a fitting chart appears, switching between bars, lines, maps and scatter plots.
Interactive dashboards: combine views with filters, parameters and actions so viewers can explore on their own.
Multiple tables: connect several sources and tables in one workbook for combined analysis.
Publish and share: push work to Tableau Public and share a link or embed it in a blog or site.
Inspiration and datasets: browse featured visualizations and public datasets to learn from.
