Month: December 2016

Tableau

Tableau is a leading business intelligence software.  Its popularity has grown as a result of its ease of use, awesome visualizations, ability to connect easily to many data sources, its ability to make use of Big Data and Cloud sources, and many other traditional and cutting-edge features.

Installing Tableau Desktop

Go to http://www.tableau.com/ and click Products, or go directly to http://www.tableau.com/products.

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Under Tableau Desktop, click on “LEARN MORE”.

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Click on “TRY IT FOR FREE”.

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Save the download to your computer.

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Click on Run from this dialog box

OR

Navigate to where you saved the download and double-click the file (in this example, TableauDesktop-64bit-9-3-4.exe) to execute or right-click the file and select Run as administrator.

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Read and accept the license agreement.

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Click Install if you want to install with defaults.

Or you may also click Customize to change some default settings.  Clicking Customize will bring you to the following dialog.

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From here you may change the install directory and check/uncheck options as you see fit.  Click Install.

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Installation in progress.

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Installation is complete. Choose the desired Activation schedule.

You have 14 days from activation to use the product.

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Unless you had unchecked this option, Tableau will be added to your Windows start menu.