Tableau Public

Tableau democratizes visualization with an elegant, simple and intuitive tool. It is exceptionally powerful in business because it communicates information through data visualization. In analytics, Tableau’s visuals allow you to quickly explore a hypothesis, verify and simply explore the data before embarking on an insidious statistical journey.

Tableau Public is free BI software that lets you connect to a spreadsheet or file and create interactive data visualizations.

Tableau Public is one of the company’s products designed for novice site analysts, bloggers, journalists, and students. The main difference between the program and Tableau Desktop or Tableau Server is that all reports and data uploaded to Tableau Public, become public. But this does not deprive the program of all the advantages of its commercial brothers. It seems that you can not use Tableau Public commercial organizations? No. You can and you should.

Tableau Public – a presentation tool

Tableau Public only from the outside seems to be an introductory product, designed only for novice analysts or students. In fact, many companies around the world use Tableau Public for commercial purposes. The most obvious example is presentations.

Let’s suppose that future business partners regularly ask your company to provide additional information about itself, about the number of executed orders, conducted researches, speed of contracts execution. Usually commercial departments make PDF presentations, sometimes these files are published on companies’ sites, but more often they are sent by e-mail upon request. However, much more impressive would be an interactive report uploaded directly to the company’s site.

Tableau Public is a free product – you can and should use it. If you are just thinking about buying a commercial license for Tableau Online, you should start your acquaintance with the program from Tableau Public. The program is ideal for the first introduction to the Tableau family of products.