Tableau Server
The Universities of Wisconsin Tableau Server supports the development and publication of interactive data visualizations to inform organizational decision-making. Access to view content on Tableau Server is limited to UW-Whitewater employees and affiliates who are on their university wired network or VPN. UW Tableau Server supports administrative functions and is not for academic research or instruction.
UW Tableau Server hosts enterprise content on the UW System site. UW employees automatically have access to some enterprise Tableau data sources and workbooks at the same level of detail as in the source system. Learn more about available enterprise data analytics.
Once logged into Tableau server, users can move to and from the UW-Whitewater and UW System sites by clicking on the drop down option in the upper left hand corner.
Signing in
Make sure you are on your university network, either through a wired connection in a campus building or your university's VPN client. For more information, visit How to Sign into Tableau Server
Tableau Training
To learn how to use Tableau Desktop, visit Tableau’s free training resources. Tableau offers a full suite of tutorial videos, access to community forums and a comprehensive knowledge base, as well as live topical webinars and an annual conference.
- Training and Tutorial Videos
- Sample Workbooks and Visualizations
- Tableau Knowledge Base
- Tableau Community Support Forums
The Universities of Wisconsin Tableau Community of Practice is a forum for staff to share questions about Tableau and receive support from colleagues. Tableau Community of Practice meets the first Friday of each month, 10-11 am. Join to connect with others who are using Tableau.
Purchasing Tableau Desktop Creator License
UW employees can receive a discount on the regular higher education price of a Tableau Creator subscription by purchasing through AE Business Solutions (orders@aebs.com) or Capital Data under UWSA contract 21-2770. More information can be found in this knowledge base.
UW-Whitewater students can get a free license for educational use directly from Tableau.
Tableau Public
This free publishing site allows the user to publish interactive data visualizations to the Tableau Public server. All work is saved and published to the Tableau Public web servers and owned by Tableau.
The data you access/share/publish is your responsibility. Please be aware that publishing or sharing data with Tableau requires adherence to data policies that govern the data source you are using. Data that is sensitive or restricted should never be shared in a public manner with visualizations. Tableau's data policy is available here.
Tableau Server
This product allows the secure sharing of data visualizations created with Tableau Desktop with specific authorized users within the organization. Access to university dashboards requires users to be on the campus network or VPN, and to have permissions allowed for the specific content. IRAP dashboards published on Tableau Server are available to view by campus employees. Please note that there is no option to create publicly available dashboards on this server.
Request permission to publish on the UW-Whitewater Tableau server site
To request permission to publish to the UW-Whitewater Tableau site, please fill out the following form: Server Publishing Request
In the form, the requester agrees to comply with the standards and guidelines. Please review them before submitting a request. Once your request is approved, someone from IRAP will contact you to schedule an onboarding session. Once approved and onboarded, you will recieve access to publish in a special folder for your office.
For more information on publishing, please visit how to publish with your Tableau Creator license.