Tableau is easy-to-use business intelligence software used for data analysis, providing visual tools to help you see and understand your data. You can connect to data in a few clicks, then use drag and drop tools to visualize and create interactive dashboards that can then be shared with Tableau Public. Visual analytics are at the core of the Tableau experience, allowing you to to ask questions and see data in meaningful ways in order to understand it. These tools allow you to easily visualize data and spot trends to answer your own questions.
Obtain Tableau License Products
Free Education License
Tableau offers free education license products for students and instructors. Submit your request:
Creator Desktop License
Discounted Creator license subscription available for UC system. Submit your request to UC's Tableau Enterprise Sales Representative:
Enterprise Server
- Tableau Enterprise Server is offered as a paid consortium service for departments.
Free Trial Offer (14 days)
Accessibility Information
Tableau is not recommended for creating visualizations on a public facing web site. The Tableau tool is best used on a researcher's own workstation. The visualizations rendered by Tableau do not meet the UC electronic accessibility policy and are not usable by people with certain disabilities.
Please see additional information about Tableau and accessibility.
Tutorials & Online Training
- Additional Training and Tutorial Videos
- Sample Workbooks and Visualizations
- Interact with Tableau Video
- Tour Tableau
- Tableau offers training classes via UCOP. Contact gary.cheng@ucop.edu for more info or to find out if there are other upcoming offerings.