In this chapter, we will cover the following recipes:
Starting with Tableau Desktop
Introduction to My Tableau Repository and connecting to the sample data source
Building our first visualization and understanding the Tableau workspace
Saving a Tableau workbook
Introduction
Earlier, in the preface, we saw the various products that are available under Tableau's product suite. The focus of this book will be on Tableau Desktop, the UI authoring tool of Tableau that will help us analyze and visualize our data. So, let's get started by familiarizing ourselves with Tableau Desktop.