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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

Accessing the Tableau Server Performance Recording dashboard


In Chapter 11, Improving Performance, the Performance Recording dashboard was discussed in detail. Sometimes a workbook may perform satisfactorily on Tableau Desktop but, mysteriously, may perform poorly when published to Tableau Server. In such cases accessing the Performance Recording dashboard on Tableau Server can be very helpful. The following exercise provides step-by-step instructions for doing so.

Exercise - exploring performance recording on Tableau Server

  1. Navigate to an instance of Tableau Server.

  2. On the toolbar, click on Settings:

  3. On the resulting page, locate the section entitled Workbook Performance Metrics and select Record workbook performance metrics.

  4. Click Save.

  5. Navigate to a workbook of your choosing and open a view. Note that the ending portion of the URL is :iid=<n>.

  6. Type :record_performance=yes& immediately before :iid=<n>, for example, http://localhost:8000/#/views/Finance/Taleof100Start-ups?:record_performance...