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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
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Preface

Chapter 4. All about Data – Data Densification, Cubes, and Big Data

Often, when teaching Tableau classes, I'm asked questions that don't fall under the purview of data topics discussed in the previous two chapters. In other words, these are questions that don't fall neatly into the categories of data preparation, joins, blends, or data structure. Here are a few example questions:

  • I just created a table calculation and observe that the view displays numbers that doesn't exist in the underlying data. Why?

  • We use SAP BW in my organization. What should I know about how Tableau works with cubes?

  • I work for a Fortune 100 company. Can you tell me how Tableau works with big data?

This chapter will continue the data discussion from the previous two chapters by addressing the topics these three questions target. Those topics are as follows:

  • About data densification

  • Working with cubes

  • Tableau and big data

There are a few people I'd especially like to thank who have worked diligently to provide resources that...