Tableau Software is the data visualization platform chosen for use with UW Enterprise Data Warehouse data, following a multi-month pilot in partnership with 20 academic and administrative units. Tableau is used to visualize large data sets and helps simplify their meaning, promote understanding of those data sets, and communicate important concepts and ideas. Valuable information is stored in the University of Washington’s growing data repositories and data visualization software is used to clearly convey that information using images, providing opportunities for understanding that data and for data-informed decision-making.
Tableau products are available at no cost, or a reduced rate for academic and administrative units. Find out more below under Tableau Licensing. Questions? Send them to tableau@uw.edu
Tableau is more dynamic. You simply try a chart and if you want to change the data or chart type, you just click one button and you see the results in real time.
-- UW-IT staff
On dashboards, the ability to quickly iterate through different filters and explore is fantastic.
-- Finance & Facilities staff
Tableau has many amazing capabilities and would give UW users a great platform to share data.
-- Graduate School staff
I think Tableau will have a great potential for providing visualizations to my managers and funders of my program.
-- Health Sciences staff
I look forward to the spread of Tableau throughout UW.
-- Medical School staff
These dashboards are now reviewed by all managers in external affairs and used at high-level meetings with the university president and other executives.
-- UWTV staff
We use Tableau visualizations to make weekly business decisions and communicate recommendations and changes to faculty effort.
-- Medical School staff
The data visualization helped us realize where we were under-investing in training and made corrections.
-- UW-IT staff
Tableau could provide profound benefits to the Graduate School and the UW by providing the catalyst to "free" the data.
-- Graduate School staff
We'd use Tableau it to monitor and mine our operational logging for a variety metrics and alarms. We'd also use it to explore new data prior to building it out.
-- UW-IT staff
Test drive Tableau using the interactive visualizations below. Select a region or ethnicity, move the Year slider, or click on the colors in the chart and watch the visualization update on the fly. Visit Tableau's Viz Gallery to interact with more examples.
Ken Griffey Jr's illustrious 21-year career began and concluded with the Seattle Mariners. Use this visualization to compare his batting stats to other current and retired power hitters. Use the checkboxes to select players and use the Category dropdown to pick a statistic. Sort results down a column by hovering just to the right of the player name, then click on the sort icon (tiny bar chart with arrow). Sort results across a row by hovering over the season number, then click on that same sort icon. Click it three times to sort in ascending, descending and then back to the original sort order.
These 4 short videos describe what you can do with Tableau Desktop and Tableau Server, and how DePaul University and University of California, Irvine are putting Tableau to use in their institutions.
Tableau Desktop lets you drag & drop to analyze data. You can connect to data in a few clicks, then visualize and create interactive dashboards with a few more.
Tableau Server provides browser-based analytics anyone can use. Once you’ve created a visualization using Tableau Desktop, publish it to Tableau Server to share with colleagues so they can interact with what you’ve created.
DePaul’s associate vice provost shares how Tableau is helping the university advance the “democratization of data.”
University of California, Irvine’s informatics solutions architect shares how the medical center uses Tableau to understand best practices and orchestrate the best quality healthcare for patients.
License agreements with Tableau make available Tableau products at no cost or at a reduced or no cost to academic and administrative units. The two tables below describe the various cost structures.
Tableau Desktop is available to full-time students and faculty using Tableau to teach. Learn more on UW-IT's UWare site.
| You | Task | Tableau Product | License Cost |
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| Full-time Student | Build visualizations | Tableau Desktop | Free via Tableau for Students program |
| Publish visualizations for sharing | Tableau Public | Free | |
| Faculty using Tableau to teach | Build visualizations | Tableau Desktop | Free via Tableau for Teaching program |
| Publish visualizations for sharing | Tableau Public | Free |
UW-IT manages the procurement and distribution of Tableau licenses available to faculty and staff. The table below describes the various tasks you can do with Tableau products, and their associated costs. Request a Tableau Desktop license.
| You | Task | Tableau Product | License Cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| Faculty and Staff | Interact with visualizations | Tableau Server | Free |
| Build visualizations | Tableau Desktop
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Inital License Fee: $$$ Includes Tableau Desktop license, Tableau support, software upgrades, online publishing to UW's Tableau Server Annual Renewal Fee: $$$ Includes Tableau support, software upgrades, online publishing to UW's Tableau Server Request License |
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| Publish visualizations for sharing | Tableau Server | Free Included with purchase of Tableau Desktop and annual renewal fee |
No matter how you learn, everything you need to master Tableau is available here. You can access as many Live Webinars, On-Demand videos and visual examples as you want for free. For those looking for an in-depth learning experience, Tableau also has affordable classroom training. Select your favorite method below and discover how quickly you can become a Tableau Jedi.
Check back later this year to learn more about UW-offered Tableau training.
| Visual Gallery - Beauty and Brains |
Free Live and On-Demand Training |
Hands-On Classroom Training |
UW Tableau Community |
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Tableau's Visual Gallery shows thirty of the most beautiful, powerful and interesting Tableau visualizations ever created. |
Learn online with On-Demand videos, or sign up for an instructor led Live Training webinar. |
Tableau’s 2-day classroom training classes will give you the skills you need to master Tableau and get more from your data. |
Learn from, connect with, and enjoy your fellow UW Tableau users at our online Tableau User Group site. |
Tableau Desktop and Tableau Server for administrative and academic units will be rolled out in phases based on the following schedule.
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