“We make analyzing data fast and easy, beautiful and useful.” -Tableau Software
Tableau Software is a company that offers a number of related products that allow individuals and organizations to develop and share interactive data visualizations.
Examples of Tableau in action:
- Brown University Institutional Research Factbooks
- Tableau's Dashboard Showcase
- Tableau Public Viz of the Day
Use the table below to get free Tableau software, depending on your role.
| Role | Request a license | Included software |
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| Faculty/ Instructors | Through Tableau for Teaching, instructors can request a FREE single license, bulk lab licenses, or bulk student licenses to the academic suite to use in curriculum or academic research. See FAQs. |
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| Staff | Brown has a limited number of Tableau Creator licenses available for analysis with Brown data. For more information, visit the Business Intelligence @Brown website. NOTE: When a license is not actively used (or is not expected to be used for a length of time) we ask users to return their license. Users may re-request a license when a need arises. |
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| Students | Learn and use Tableau software with the Tableau for Students program. |
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| Everyone | Tableau Public is free version of Tableau Desktop that allows users to develop and publish interactive data visualizations to the Tableau Public server and optionally embed on a website. Work is saved/published to the Tableau Public web servers and owned by Tableau—nothing is saved locally on your computer. Features include:
If you aren't working with sensitive data, this is a great option to learn Tableau for professional development or to visualize data for a hobby. | Tableau Public |