6.4 Publishing to Tableau Public (optional)

If you want to share your Tableau viz, dashboard, or story with others, you can either 1) pay for Tableau Server (to keep it private) or 2) publish it to Tableau Public for free. Publishing to Tableau Public doesn't mean that you'll have to share your valuable and private data with the world. You can turn off the ability to download the original dataset. Having a public account does mean that any summarized visualization of the data you include in the workbook will be publicly available. However, this is still a good option when you don't mind sharing the viz, but you will need to keep individual records (which often contain personally identifying information) private. While publishing a Tableau workbook to the web is not a necessary step in the CRISP-DM process or for generating the data exploration report, it may be a useful way for you to share a live updated version of the relevant visualizations you've generated with others. In fact, if your data source is a live SQL Server database, that may be necessary in order to keep your viz's updated. However, check with your instructor to know whether this is a required step for you. If so, follow along with Tableau Public: moving your dashboard online to see how to publish your workbook.

This video assumes that you've completed the Getting Started video tutorial and that you've generated the Dashboard from that video. However, you can download and use the dashboard below to follow along with this next video. So, with either your workbook or mine open, follow along with the video below. In addition, although the video will walk you through this step, you will want to first create your Tableau Public account (which is unique from your Tableau account).

Now that you've published your workbook to Tableau Public, you may be interested to learn how to add your viz to your own webpage and customize it with Tableau's JavaScript API. If so, you can follow along with the optional Supplementary chapter of this book that continues what this video began using the JavaScript API.