The main page presents you with several options, such as connecting to a file, to a server, or to save sample data sources. When you first open Tableau, it looks like this. Publishing Tableau Visualizations and Further Resources Creating a Stacked Bar Chart and Using Parametersĩ. Creating Simple Scatter Plots and Merging Datasetsħ. This tutorial was created using Tableau Desktop version 2020.2.ĥ. You can find more information regarding the data sources used in this guide in the subsection entitled '10. The data used in this guide are public datasets retrieved from the World Bank’s Open Data repository, the United Nation's Open Data Population Division, and the full text of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet available through MIT's website, with a frequency table generated through Voyant Tools. If you are running Tableau on a Mac, please note that there may be some variation between the Windows version used to design this guide and the program as it appears on a Mac.

If you are looking for more general data visualization tips, please see the Map and Data Library's Data Visualization Guide. You can find instructions on installing and acquiring a free academic license for Tableau here. This guide is suitable for new Tableau users looking for information on producing popular data visualizations in Tableau, such as bar graphs, line graphs, scatterplots, tree maps, and dashboards.