Introduction to Tableau Public

October 20, 2025

Agenda Overview

8:30         Welcome & Introductions

8:45         Setup and What is Tableau Public?

- Tableau Public vs Desktop

- Who can use Tableau Public?

- Tableau Help Resources

9:10         Exercise 1: My First Viz: From Import to Publishing on Tableau Public!

- Interface Overview

- Exploring Data types; Dimensions vs Measures

- Exploring types of visualizations

- Tiled vs Floating Dashboards

- Publishing to Tableau Public

10:15      Break

10:30      Exercise 2: Skill Building – Make a Gallery of Simple Vizzes!

- Inspiration from Tableau Public Gallery

- Long or Wide Data?

- Customizing Vizzes with Formatting

- Relationship and Joins

- Embedding a Viz on a Website

11:15      Exercise 3: Get Interactive

- Customizing Filters

- Parameters

- Field Calculations

- Incorporating Dynamic Google Sheet Data

12:00      Lunch

1:00         Exercise 4: Build a Library Book Dashboard

- Reviewing and Preparing the Data

- Building sheets, calculations and parameters

- Dashboard design – add some graphics

2:00         Exercise 5: Getting Spatial

- Importing geographic data as CSV, Excel, GeoJSON, or Shp data

- Geographic Data Types

- Background maps

- Layering Map Data

3:00:       Break

3:10         Opportunity to practice what you learned & work with your own data and make a dashboard!

3:50         Eval Exercise: “Weather” this workshop has been useful? AKA creating data for the next exercise …

4:00         Exercise 6: It’s a Date and Advanced Geospatial Functions

- Multiple Vizzes from a date – “How likely am I to miss my flight this holiday season” …

- Intersecting Points Demo

4:20         Wrapup