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Mastering Tableau

By : David Baldwin
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Mastering Tableau

By: David Baldwin

Overview of this book

Tableau has emerged as one of the most popular Business Intelligence solutions in recent times, thanks to its powerful and interactive data visualization capabilities. This book will empower you to become a master in Tableau by exploiting the many new features introduced in Tableau 10.0. You will embark on this exciting journey by getting to know the valuable methods of utilizing advanced calculations to solve complex problems. These techniques include creative use of different types of calculations such as row-level, aggregate-level, and more. You will discover how almost any data visualization challenge can be met in Tableau by getting a proper understanding of the tool’s inner workings and creatively exploring possibilities. You’ll be armed with an arsenal of advanced chart types and techniques to enable you to efficiently and engagingly present information to a variety of audiences through the use of clear, efficient, and engaging dashboards. Explanations and examples of efficient and inefficient visualization techniques, well-designed and poorly designed dashboards, and compromise options when Tableau consumers will not embrace data visualization will build on your understanding of Tableau and how to use it efficiently. By the end of the book, you will be equipped with all the information you need to create effective dashboards and data visualization solutions using Tableau.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Mastering Tableau
Credits
About the Author
www.Packtpub.com
Preface

Understand the Performance Recording dashboard


Previous to version 8.0, if a Tableau author desired to view queries and other performance-centric information generated by Tableau Desktop, deciphering raw log files was the only option. Another option was introduced in version 8.0; that is, the Performance Recording dashboard.

Exercise - exploring Performance Recording in Tableau Desktop

This exercise and the associated discussion points will survey various aspects of the Performance Recording dashboard, including how to generate it, how to use it to explore options for improving performance, and how it's constructed:

  1. Navigate to https://public.tableau.com/profile/david.baldwin#!/ to locate and download the workbook associated with this chapter.

  2. Navigate to the worksheet titled Types of Events.

  3. Go to Help | Settings and Performance | Start Performance Recording.

  4. Press F5 on Windows or Command + R on Mac to refresh the view.

  5. Go to Help | Settings and Performance | Stop Performance Recording.

  6. In the...