Tableau

Spreadsheet software

Data visualization and business intelligence software

Accounting software

Video editing software

Spreadsheets

Word documents

Interactive dashboards and visualizations

Slide presentations

Spreadsheets and databases only

Cloud services and big data platforms only

Databases and cloud services only

Spreadsheets, databases, cloud services, and big data platforms

To present data insights in a compelling and interactive manner

To create animated data visualizations

To share reports with others

To perform advanced analytics on data

Rows

Dimensions

Measures

Columns

Exporting visualizations to image files

Embedding visualizations in web pages

Sharing via Tableau Server or Tableau Online

All of the above

Quick filters

Calculated fields

Parameters

Sets

Measures

Columns

Rows

Dimensions

Cube chart

Bar chart

Pie chart

Line chart

A type of chart that displays values as bars.

A type of chart that displays data as a series of points.

A type of chart that displays data as a color gradient.

A type of chart that displays data as a line graph.