6309 - Tableau Introduction

MIS/ACCT 6309 – Introduction to
Tableau

Instructor: Kashif Saeed

Tableau

• Tableau is a Visualization/Analytics and dash-boarding
tool

• Visualizations is a field of Business Intelligence that
deals with graphical/visual representation of data

The Good:
• Easy to learn
• Low time to market
• Free tutorials
• Integrated geo maps
• Powerful visualizations

Tableau

Not so good:
• End-user tool

– There are not too many jobs in the market for I.T
people

• End-user mentality even in administration and
install

• Advance authoring requires a lot of hacks and
tricks

• Not the full BI solution

Tableau Architecture

Understanding Tableau Extension

• TDS – Tableau Data Source file contains the metadata
• TDSX – Tableau Packaged Data source contains the data

and metadata
• TWB – Tableau workbook is an XML file which contains

all information about your visualization
• TWBX – Tableau Packaged work book includes the data

with the visualization
• TDE – Tableau Data Extract is a columnar database file

with extracted data

http://www.theinformationlab.co.uk/2013/12/02/tabl
eau-file-types-and-extensions/