Services
Tableau is a visual analytics platform.
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Free Tableau software
- Tableau for Teaching provides instructors free Tableau Desktop, Tableau Prep Builder, and eLearning licenses along with bulk licenses for student courses and labs.
- Tableau for Students provides students with free Tableau Desktop, Tableau Prep Builder, and eLearning licenses.
- Tableau Public is a free version of Tableau Desktop for anyone to create visualizations with non-private data and publish them to the web.
- Tableau Reader is a desktop application you can use to open and interact with Tableau content created by someone else and shared with you locally.
Enterprise software
- Tableau Creator licenses for staff include two software products (request a license):
- Tableau Desktop is data visualization software to analyze data and create dashboards. Users can share content with others via Tableau Reader (free), by publishing content to Tableau Server (see below), or by embedding a dashboard on a website (example: Factbooks).
- Tableau Prep is data preparation software to help you cleanse, join, and prepare your data to use as a data source in Tableau Desktop.
- Tableau Server is an enterprise business intelligence platform that enables Tableau Creators to publish user-friendly, visual, interactive data visualizations and dashboards and securely share them with authorized viewers across Brown to support data exploration and decision-making. All staff have access to log into tableau.brown.edu and view content that has been shared with them.