Learning Library


Welcome to the Learning Library. Find the name of the step that includes the process you want to learn more about. Scroll down to the next table for additional learning tutorials, videos, whitepapers and more. Tableau help(Link opens in a new window) is also an excellent source of information.

Getting Started Tutorial stepTopics to explore

Connect to a sample data source

Drag and drop to take a first look

Focus your results

Explore your data geographically

Drill down into the details

Build a dashboard to show your insights

Share your findings with others


Here are additional learning tutorials, videos, whitepapers and more. Use these resources to improve your understanding of Tableau Desktop.

What do you want to do?Try this locationFor this type of content

Learn what things are called in the Tableau Interface

The Tableau Workspace(Link opens in a new window)

Labelled images of the Tableau User Interface (UI).

Find more tutorials and follow along using sample data

Build-It-Yourself Exercises(Link opens in a new window)

Short how-to type walk throughs about how to create popular chart types, and explain when you might want to use each type, including:

  • Bar charts
  • Text tables
  • Line charts
  • Scatter plots
  • Heat maps
  • Histograms
  • Gantt charts
  • Pie charts
  • Treemaps
  • Box plots
  • Packed bubble charts
  • Maps

Find examples of best practices for data visualisation

Visual Best Practices(Link opens in a new window)

Best Practices for Effective Dashboards(Link opens in a new window)

Best Practices for Telling Great Stories(Link opens in a new window)

Best Practices for Designing Accessible Views(Link opens in a new window)

Best Practices for Published Data Sources(Link opens in a new window)

  • How to create great looking visualisations.

  • How to design effective dashboards that help discover key insights and speed up decision making.

  • How to tell a great story using Tableau story points.

  • How to create visualisations that are accessible by users with visual or physical impairments.

  • How to use published data sources to make your data available for analysis.

Get more context about Tableau products before you start to work

Whitepapers(Link opens in a new window)

In-depth discussions about best practices, industry trends and what’s next in data analysis.

Find online or in-person training

Learn(Link opens in a new window) and Training(Link opens in a new window)

Take free online, on-demand training courses or sign up for in-classroom training to deepen your expertise.

Find out about working with Tableau in the context of your system configuration or in combination with other products from other companies

Knowledge Base(Link opens in a new window)

Content created in response to support calls, designed to help use Tableau in specific environments or scenarios.
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