Rather than a big list of all the terms, let's go through the basic Tableau life cycle.
When you open Tableau Desktop, you start working on a Workbook. After you've finished working, you will save your work in a .twb
or .twbx
file. You can open multiple instances of Tableau, each of them being a different Workbook.
After choosing your connector (a Comma Separated Values (CSV) file, an Excel file, or a database on a server), Tableau opens the data source workplace. On this page, you create the data source by choosing tables (or sheets) and creating joins, unions, or other transformations. The following screenshot illustrates the Data Source workplace: