Touring the Tableau Public user interface

• In the previous chapter, we discussed how to download and install Tableau Public. We also saw what the start screen looks like and how you can use it to connect to data, explore your own work or that of others, or discover how to use the tool. On opening either a data file or an existing workbook with Tableau Public, you will see the worksheet view.

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There can be one or more worksheets in a workbook. Tableau Public extends this further by allowing you to place one or more worksheets in a dashboard, with all of this contained within the workbook.

The starting point that appears when opening a new Tableau workbook is the worksheet view. This is the working area where you can build your dashboard. Let's take a quick look at it.

The visualization shown in the following screenshot uses data from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) on every commercial flight at the domestic airports of the United States in March 2015 to average the departure delay...