Using Tableau Public as a “Sustainable” Platform for Conservation Monitoring & Reporting How to Build and Deploy a Dashboard in One Hour for Free! Piyali Kundu April 5, 2016
Contact: Piyali Kundu Carbon Fund Coordinator Conservation International Richard Fox Sales Representative Tableau (DC Office)
Agenda: Tableau Public & Conservation How did Tableau Public help us? Benefits of using Tableau Public Caveats of using Tableau Public Webinar: How to build and deploy a dashboard in an hour Introduction and workspace Building charts and dashboards Saving and uploading dashboard
Challenge: Create a monitoring tool/system with limited funds Landscape Accounting Framework (LAF) Monitoring + reporting + implementation tool to track a landscape’s progress towards sustainability LAFAPP Complimentary interactive web application Increases transparency with donors and stakeholders Limited budget for tech. and training
LAFAPP Original Concept
LAFAPP Original Concept
LAFAPP Thesis Project u/geog797/capstone/
LAF Dashboards Carbon Fund Tableau Public Site
LAF Dashboards
Benefits of Tableau Public A “sustainable” interface Free, powerful technology platform Free web hosting (i.e., communication) Does not require an established DBMS Documentation Quick and easy to learn Eliminates need to know coding: JavaScript PHP SQL
Caveats of Tableau Public For the public Dashboards must be saved to Tableau Public site; made available to public Need paid version to keep proprietary data confidential Cannot control who looks at dashboards
Caveats of Tableau Public Simple Does not connect to many databases/ data types Excel Excel Workbooks (.xls,.xlsx,.xlsm) Text Character Delimited Files (.csv) Tab Delimited Files (.tab,.tsv) Text files (.txt) Access Access Databases (.mdb,.accdb) Statistical Files SAS Files (.sas7bdat) SPSS Files (.sav) R Files (.rdata,.rda) Servers OData, Web Data Connector
Introduction to Dataset
That’s a wrap! You did it! Training manual will be sent to SCGIS SCGIS will upload copy of this video Feel free to me or Richard any questions Check out the Tableau site for additional tutorials and training materials Join a local Tableau user group