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What is Tableau Public?
Tableau Public is a free platform to publicly share and explore data visualizations online. Anyone can create visualizations using either Tableau Desktop Professional Edition or Tableau Public Web Authoring. With millions of inspiring data visualizations, or “vizzes” as we affectionately call them, anyone can see and understand vizzes about any public data topic under the sun, making data part of everyday life and supporting a community to grow and learn from each other.
Explore data visualizations on any public data topic.
Get inspired by over 3 million interactive data visualizations created by more than 1 million people from around the world. From music to sports and politics, Tableau Public users have created visualizations on every possible topic. Browse our curated channels of community-created visualizations or search for topics by keyword with the help of hashtags. Discover how other users create their vizzes by downloading to your desktop or exploring directly in your browser. “Favorite” visualizations to add to your favorites for quick access later.
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Connect with a global community.
Thousands of people and organizations around the world create and share data visualizations with Tableau Public. Learn new tricks by participating in fun, community-led challenges with thousands of people. Learn from the experts and find inspiration by following authors to receive updates in your personalized activity feed. Get started by following a curated set of Tableau Public featured authors.
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Easily create stunning interactive graphs, maps, and live dashboards in minutes on our free platform. No coding required. Connect to data in a variety of formats like Excel, CSV, and Google Sheets. Save to your Tableau Public profile to pick up where you left off. Create a data visualization by downloading Tableau Public Desktop, or learn more from our free Resources.
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What makes Tableau Public different from other Tableau products?
Share publicly
Visualizations published to Tableau Public are available for anyone to see online. Tableau Public is a platform for public (not private) data.
Free with few limits
Anyone can explore and contribute to the millions of visualizations on Tableau Public. Saving locally and refreshing data are limited.
Fully hosted
Vizzes on Tableau Public can handle millions of viewers. All infrastructure is managed by Tableau Public at no cost.
Additional Resources from Tableau Public
Embark on a journey through space and time with this #VizOfTheDay by Jarsolav Tomcala. Uncover insights about the Star Wars and Star Trek sagas—including IMDb ratings, box office numbers, and budgets.
Behind the Viz: Adedamola (Damola) Ladipo shares his favorite Tableau trick
Community & Resources
Explore resources to help you get started, or kick your visualizations up a notch.
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