I was surprised to discover one week that one of my students was a neonatal pediatric surgeon. This is outside the typical demographic of Tableau aficionados! At the root of the doctor's reasons for attending the class was the need to tell a story. Over her years of practice, she had observed a correlation between the use of certain cardiac medications and future neurodevelopment. But of course, it was not enough to merely personally observe the correlation. The goal of facilitating change in the medical and pharmaceutical communities required hard, demonstrable proof. Someone had introduced the doctor to Tableau, which for her was a eureka moment. Here she had found a tool that would allow her to present her findings. Naturally, there was much work to do to gather and structure data for effective reporting, but with such a compelling story with the potential to alter many lives, the good doctor was motivated. I look forward to reading her findings in...
Mastering Tableau
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Mastering Tableau
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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
Free Chapter
Getting Up to Speed – a Review of the Basics
All about Data – Getting Your Data Ready
All about Data – Joins, Blends, and Data Structures
All about Data – Data Densification, Cubes, and Big Data
Table Calculations
Level of Detail Calculations
Beyond the Basic Chart Types
Mapping
Tableau for Presentations
Visualization Best Practices and Dashboard Design
Improving Performance
Interacting with Tableau Server
Customer Reviews