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Getting Started with Tableau 2018.x

By : Tristan Guillevin
Book Image

Getting Started with Tableau 2018.x

By: Tristan Guillevin

Overview of this book

Tableau is one of the leading business intelligence tools used worldwide, in organizations of every scale. In its latest release, Tableau 2018 promises richer and more useful features related to visual analytics, reporting, dashboarding, and a host of other data visualization aspects. Getting Started with Tableau 2018.x will get you up and running with these features. The book starts with all the new functionalities of the different Tableau 2018 versions, along with concrete examples of how to use them. However, if you're new to Tableau, don't worry! The rest of the book will guide you through each major aspect of Tableau with examples. You'll learn how to connect to data, build a data source, visualize your data, build a dashboard, and share it online. In the final chapters, you'll also learn advanced techniques such as creating a cross-database join, data blending, and more. By the end of the book, you will have a firm understanding of how to effectively use Tableau to create quick, cost-effective, and business-efficient business intelligence solutions.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
Title Page
Copyright and Credits
Packt Upsell
Contributors
Preface
Free Chapter
1
Catching Up with Tableau 2018
Index

Summary


In this chapter, you first learned how to build a visualization with more than two Measures using Dual Axis, Measure Names, and Measure Values. The second section was about Filters and how to use them to your advantage to focus on the right data. Then, we looked at Pages and how to add interactivity to Tableau! To finish, we saw an overview of the most useful options, where to find them, and how to use them. 

If we combine its two parts, this chapter is the longest and most important one in the book. It's the core of Tableau and where you'll spend a major part of your time. I'm sure you'll enjoy building many different visualizations to find the ones that make your data shine. 

Once you find the best visualizations to understand your data and answer your questions, it's time to assemble them in a Dashboard. You probably guessed where this is going. The next chapter is about building Dashboards, how to create them and make them interactive, and, of course, this will be a chapter containing...