In-Class Exercise 1

Author

Yee Weicong Mark

Published

April 18, 2026

Modified

April 20, 2026

Tableau Desktop

Tableau is a visual analytics authoring tool that enables users to connect to data sources (Excel, CSV, databases, cloud services), explore them through drag-and-drop interactions, and build interactive visualisations and dashboards without writing code.

Tableau Desktop connects to Excel files directly through its Connect pane. Superstore excel file was imported.

A sheet in Tableau is a single visualisation workspace. Sheets from Superstore were explored.