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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

Summary


In this chapter we explored the inner workings of table calculations. We began by considering two questions, that is, What is the function? and How is the function applied?

As we explored these two questions, we surveyed each unique group of table calculation functions with the exception of the Script_ functions, which are covered in Chapter 13, R Integration. We also learned how to apply these functions to a view via partitioning and addressing.

In the next chapter, we will explore level-of-detail (LOD) calculations, where we will build a sound understanding of this functionality which, though introduced in Tableau 9.0, is still unfamiliar to many Tableau authors. Along the way, we will discover how LOD calculations can easily accomplish tasks that were previously only possible through complex table calculations. It is important to note, however, that even though LOD calculations can replace table calculations in some cases, they can by no means replace every instance of table calculations...