The Tableau workspace consists of menus, a toolbar, the Data pane, cards and shelves, and one or more sheets.
Sheets can be worksheets, dashboards, or stories. For details on dashboard or story workspaces, see Create a Dashboard or The Story Workspace.
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The main thing you do in the workspace is to create visualisations to analyze your data.
Renaming data fields, cleaning the data, previewing the data can all be done in the Data source window.