Tableau Online Secure Login Page. Sign in to Tableau Online. Tableau is a Business Intelligence tool for visually analyzing the data. Users can create and distribute an interactive and shareable dashboard, which depict the trends, variations, and density of the data in the form of graphs and charts.
If you want to share your data discoveries with the world outside of your organization, you can save your workbook to Tableau Public, a free cloud service. On Tableau Public, anyone can interact with your views, or download your workbooks or data sources. For information, go to the Tableau Public website.
Tableau Public Vs Desktop
Save a workbook
With your workbook open in Tableau Desktop, select Server > Tableau Public > Save to Tableau Public.
Note: This option is available only if you’ve created a viz that contains at least one field.
Sign in using your Tableau Public account.
If you don’t have an account, select the link to create a new one.
Type a name for the workbook and click Save.
When you save a workbook to Tableau Public, the publishing process creates an extract of the data connection.
Tip: The title becomes part of your view’s metadata. Use a unique title that will help others find it when they search. (The title shown in the image is a good example of how not to name your workbook.)
After the workbook is published, you are redirected to your account on the Tableau Public website(Link opens in a new window).
On your profile page on Tableau Public, do any of the following to customize your profile:
Hover the pointer over a viz to get access to actions such as selecting it as your featured viz, or hiding, downloading, or deleting it.
Hover the pointer over a viz and then select View to open the viz’s home page. There you can select Edit Details to customize metadata such as workbook name and description, add a permalink, and change other settings.
To get a link to share on social media or code to embed in a web page, display a view, and then click Share at the bottom of the view. (You can get links and embed code for other Tableau Public users’ views this way, too.)
So What’s the Difference?
Many people are often confused by the different software options that Tableau offers. Essentially there are three tiers in the software options. Each having an increasing layer of of features which are also related to price. Additionally, your intention will also govern what software version you should incorporate into your analysis stack.
The diagram below will give you a basic idea what versions of the software you may need:
Tableau Public
This is essentially a free version of Tableau visualization software. It allows you to use the majority of the software functions.You can create visualizations and connect to CSVs, Text and Excel documents. However, the largest difference is that Tableau Public does not allow you to save your workbooks locally. You have to save them on the publicly which means that everyone can see your data since it’s saved on the cloud.
Tableau Desktop
Tableau Public Datasets
Tableau desktop offers all the full features of software. Your workbooks can be share locally. This version allows you the connect to different file types, create extracts of the data sources and save your Tableau workbooks locally and publicly. The only thing that is missing here is the data connection types. You will not be able to have a direct connection to a database or web and software APIs.
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Tableau Reader
Tableau Reader allows you to read the Tableau file types. If you want to share your workbook by sending a file, the receiver will need a Tableau reader to open the document. Without the reader, you may need share it publicly or convert the workbook into a PDF format.
Tableau Server
Tableau Server allows users to save workbooks securely across the organization using a secure server. This eliminates the need for a user to have to share the workbook publicly. However, this comes at additional cost.