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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

Getting the best images out of Tableau


In this section, we will review the options for porting an image from Tableau into other applications and discuss the pros and cons of each method. We'll begin by surveying various screenshot applications, and then we will consider the methods available directly in Tableau.

A brief survey of screen capture tools

Perhaps the easiest way to capture an image in Tableau is to use a screen capture tool. Of the screen capture tools available, SnagIt, by TechSmith, may be considered the market leader. Personally, I'm a long-time user and a big fan of SnagIt. Almost all the images in this book were captured using this tool. The default settings of SnagIt allow the user to press the print screen key and then drag a marquee over an area for capture. Other options include capturing the entire screen, capturing specific windows, and even creating short screen capture videos. Once the capture is made, SnagIt opens a feature-rich editor in which the user can create...