The purpose of this Tableau Public tutorial is to demonstrate how Tableau Public can be easily used to make four types of data visualizations with nutrition data. This tutorial is a follow-up to DataDENT’s Together for Nutrition West African Data Forum skills building session “Making better figures: visualizing data for different audiences” led by Tricia Aung and Youssouf Keita.
What is Tableau Public?
• Tableau is a popular data visualization program used broadly by individuals in many different fields. Tableau has a drag-and-drop interface and requires no coding.
• Tableau makes several products including Tableau Public, which is free. Tableau Public allows users to create data visualizations that can be easily shared on the web and available for download.
• Tableau Public is similar to Tableau Desktop (which costs a fee to use), however, Tableau Public only allows users to save workbooks to an online Tableau Public account.
Getting Started with Tableau Public