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Please note that our computer lab is also accessible for use through remote access. See this link for more information.

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Tableau

Installing Tableau Desktop

Tableau Desktop is a commercial program used to create data visualizations and interactive dashboards. This tutorial assumes that you are student, instructor or researcher at the University of Toronto, and can thus request a free, renewable, one-year license for Tableau Desktop from Tableau. If you are a member of the public, please consider using Tableau Public instead, which is free.

Creating Data Visualizations Using Tableau Desktop (Beginner)

Table of Contents

1. Opening Datasets in Tableau

2. Beginning Work

3. Creating a Simple Bar Graph

4. Creating a Simple Line Graph

5. Creating Simple Scatter Plots and Merging Datasets

6. Creating a Tree Map           

7. Creating a Stacked Bar Chart and Using Parameters

8. Creating a Dashboard

9. Publishing Tableau Visualizations and Further Resources