Install Tableau Desktop

Hello, tabla gurus. Welcome back to another lecture. In this lecture we will download Tableau desktop, but before doing that, let me explain the differences between Tableau Public and Tableau Desktop, because some people may know of the Tableau public only and they may want to follow the course with Tableau Public. But I will use the Tableau desktop and explain why it is a better idea. Most of the time when people say Tableau, they are talking about Tableau Desktop. Tableau Desktop comes with 14 day trial, so you can use it for free during the first 14 days, but you need a license key to activate Tableau desktop at the end of 14 days. Tableau Public is the free version of Tableau Desktop, but it comes with some limitations. In Tableau Public, you can only connect to Excel or text file, so there is no database connectivity option in Tableau Public. This limitation won't hurt you when you are following the course. Another limitation is about connection types, which you will learn in details later on. But for now it is enough to know that you cannot choose your connection. Type in Tableau public. Your connection type is extract by default, while on the other hand you can switch your connection type between extract and live in Tableau desktop. This is an important limitation for your exam, but you don't need to worry because you will have two lectures only about these concepts and the last limitation of Tableau Public As the name explains, anything you see in Tableau Public will be saved on Tableau Public Server, so your charts and your dashboards will be publicly available to others which anyone can download. So there is no privacy. Well, the Tableau public definitely won't hurt you a lot when you are following this course, but I suggest you to go for Tableau Desktop first. Use it for 14 days. When your trial period ends, you can install the Tableau public. Anyway, that's all for this section. I'll see you in the.