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Tableau Cookbook - Recipes for Data Visualization

By : Shweta Sankhe-Savale
Book Image

Tableau Cookbook - Recipes for Data Visualization

By: Shweta Sankhe-Savale

Overview of this book

Data is everywhere and everything is data! Visualization of data allows us to bring out the underlying trends and patterns inherent in the data and gain insights that enable faster and smarter decision making. Tableau is one of the fastest growing and industry leading Business Intelligence platforms that empowers business users to easily visualize their data and discover insights at the speed of thought. Tableau is a self-service BI platform designed to make data visualization and analysis as intuitive as possible. Creating visualizations with simple drag-and-drop, you can be up and running on Tableau in no time. Starting from the fundamentals such as getting familiarized with Tableau Desktop, connecting to common data sources and building standard charts; you will walk through the nitty gritty of Tableau such as creating dynamic analytics with parameters, blended data sources, and advanced calculations. You will also learn to group members into higher levels, sort the data in a specific order & filter out the unnecessary information. You will then create calculations in Tableau & understand the flexibility & power they have and go on to building story-boards and share your insights with others. Whether you are just getting started or whether you need a quick reference on a “how-to” question, This book is the perfect companion for you
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Tableau Cookbook – Recipes for Data Visualization
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface
Index

Using Background images


Tableau provides an option to display data on any given image. Typically, people use background images for displaying data on a custom map image. Even though Tableau allows us to use the default map options, background images can give us the flexibility to use our own custom images, which could be used as a special map. Background images need not necessarily be a custom map; instead it can be any image that corresponds to our data. For example, we may have data that corresponds to a floor plan of a building, or data that corresponds to a baseball game, which needs to be plotted on the baseball pitch, and so on. We can use background images to overlay that data on the actual floor plan of the building or on the baseball pitch image, to give more context.

To display the background image, we'll create an XY axis Scatter Plot. Each data point then has an X coordinate and a Y coordinate. The point to remember here is to have the right coordinates, as this is what will add...