Saving a workbook on the Web

Tableau Public is a great free product offered by Tableau to share any workbook with anyone on the Web. If you do not mind sharing your raw data with the users, then this is a great way of sharing your visualizations as the Tableau server can be very expensive.

Getting ready

Download and save titanic.txt from http://biostat.mc.vanderbilt.edu/wiki/pub/Main/DataSets/titanic.txt on your local hard drive. Remember this location, as we will use this file for this recipe. This file lists all the passengers (and their details) that boarded the Titanic on its disastrous voyage. In addition, you'll need to create a Tableau Public free account from https://public.tableausoftware.com/auth/signup.

How to do it...

Create a new worksheet and perform the following steps to create a simple graphic and save the workbook on the Web:

  1. Click on Connect to data to expand that area.
  2. Click on Text File under the In a file section.
  3. Find and select titanic.txt using the Browse button.
  4. Keep all the options as is and hit OK.
  5. In the Data Connection dialog box, click on the Import all data option.
  6. Save the Tableau Data Extract file in a familiar location and hit Save.
  7. Drag-and-drop sex from Dimensions into the Rows shelf.
  8. Drag-and-drop survived from Measures into the Text box in the Marks pane.
  9. From the main menu toolbar, select Server, expand Tableau Public, and select the Save to Web option as shown in the following screenshot:
    How to do it...
  10. In the Tableau Public Login window, enter your e-mail address and password that you used to create your Tableau Public account.
  11. In the Save Workbook to the Public Web box, enter Titantic Survival by Gender and hit Save as shown in the following screenshot:
    How to do it...
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