The Basics
This is an interactive visualization software and tool that allows users to see and understand their data.
What is Tableau?
This type of chart show proportions of a whole
What is a pie chart?
In Tableau, this field type contain qualitative values (such as names, dates, or geographical data), and is generally highlighted in blue.
What are dimensions?
In Tableau, this is done using exponential smoothing modeling
What is forecasting?
Allows you to connect and visualize your data in minutes.
What is fast analytics?
In Tableau, a collection of several views, letting you compare a variety of data simultaneously
What is a dashboard?
This type of chart provides a simple way to visualize a sequence of values and is useful when you want to see trends over time, or to forecast future values.
What is a line chart?
In Tableau, a collection of several views, letting you compare a variety of data simultaneously
What is a dashboard?
This measure can be used to help discover a predictive relationship, it indicates that variables are statistical associated or related
What is correlation?
This allows you to get the freshest data with a live connection to your data or get automatic updates on a schedule you define.
What is update automatically?
Summary calculations (such as sum and average) for an entire field in Tableau
What is an aggregation?
This type of chart compares data across categories (dimensions)?
What is a bar graph?
A metric calculated by multiplying the average value of a sale by the number of repeat transactions and the average retention time in months for a typical customer
What is customer lifetime value?
In Tableau, this Analysis tool shades an area behind the marks in the view between two constant or computed values on the axis (such as between the median, and maximum value).
What is a reference band?
This means that anyone can analyze data with intuitive drag and drop products. No programming, just insight.
What is ease of use?
This shelf in Tableau, allows you to specify which data to include and exclude.
For example, if you might want to analyze the profit for each customer segment, but only for certain shipping containers and delivery times.
What is an the filter shelf?
This type of chart displays the shape of a distribution
What is a histogram?
The amount of customers or subscribers who cut ties with your service or company during a given time period.
What is the churn rate?
This measure is used to analyze how well the data fits a particular trend line model
What is R-squared?
This combines multiple views of data to get richer insight. Best practices of data visualization are baked right in.
What are smart dashboards?
Custom fields that define a subset of data based on some conditions. When dragged to a visualization, it defaults to display as the In/Out mode.
What is a set?
In Tableau, this type of chart is useful for comparing categorical data using color?
What is a highlight table?
This metric measures how cost-effective your marketing campaigns are when it comes to generating new leads for your sales team
What is cost per lead?
This type of trend line is a best-fit curved line that is most useful when the rate of change in the data increases or decreases quickly and then levels out
What is a logarithmic trend line?
From spreadsheets to databases to Hadoop to cloud services, explore any data.
What is Big Data or Any Data?