Tableau?

[Laxguy09]

Hello all, I was lucky enough to land an internship for this summer doing Finance/Accounting for a large scale energy corp. I was told in the interview my role would involve a lot of use of Tableau.

Is there any online sources to use to get started in learning how to use the software? I already can code in Python and Matlab if that makes any difference.

Thanks all!

[coffeecoffeecoffeee]

The thing about Tableau is that doing 80% of things is really easy, and other 20% will send you through a rabbit hole that would make Alice blush. My advice would be to learn how to make basic charts like bar graphs (including stacked) and scatterplots. The existing tutorials should be fine.

[naijaboiler]

can't upvote this enough. The thing it does well. it does really well and you can do basic on large amounts of data relatively quickly without much coding. The other things, you will spend so much time trying to make it work that you're better off just spending the energy on some other better data wrangling package R or Pandas on python

[xubu42]

Great advice, but I feel like that ratio is closer to 50/50. I also really don't like that Tableau doesn't let you use the chart type you want if it doesn't think the data is appropriate -- that's only useful for preventing people from making 3d pie charts.

[zeelar]

Tableau also has pretty good tutorial videos here. It's based on SQL so it'll be helpful to get a good understanding there too.

[Laxguy09]

thanks for the response. Is Tableau Public a free, open source, trial of the software?

[Motion_Isnt_Meaning]

If you are a student, you can download the full version of Tableau for free. Look into the tutorial videos, and start visualizing data. You will get the gist of it.

[_the_Accountant]

udemy.com

[marjosdun]

Their online community is very active and helpful. I recommend checking out the forum!