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Tableau 10 Complete Reference

By : Joshua N. Milligan, Tristan Guillevin
Book Image

Tableau 10 Complete Reference

By: Joshua N. Milligan, Tristan Guillevin

Overview of this book

Graphical presentation of data enables us to easily understand complex data sets. Tableau 10 Complete Reference provides easy-to-follow recipes with several use cases and real-world business scenarios to get you up and running with Tableau 10. This Learning Path begins with the history of data visualization and its importance in today's businesses. You'll also be introduced to Tableau - how to connect, clean, and analyze data in this visual analytics software. Then, you'll learn how to apply what you've learned by creating some simple calculations in Tableau and using Table Calculations to help drive greater analysis from your data. Next, you'll explore different advanced chart types in Tableau. These chart types require you to have some understanding of the Tableau interface and understand basic calculations. You’ll study in detail all dashboard techniques and best practices. A number of recipes specifically for geospatial visualization, analytics, and data preparation are also covered. Last but not least, you'll learn about the power of storytelling through the creation of interactive dashboards in Tableau. Through this Learning Path, you will gain confidence and competence to analyze and communicate data and insights more efficiently and effectively by creating compelling interactive charts, dashboards, and stories in Tableau. This Learning Path includes content from the following Packt products: • Learning Tableau 10 - Second Edition by Joshua N. Milligan • Getting Started with Tableau 2018.x by Tristan Guillevin
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
Title Page
About Packt
Contributors
Preface
8
Deeper Analysis - Trends, Clustering, Distributions, and Forecasting
Index

Tableau Server/Online


This second section, about Tableau Server, is also divided into three parts, as follows:

  • Interacting: The new features available when you open a published Workbook
  • Web authoring: The new features available when you create a new Workbook online
  • Administration: The changes and enhancements involved in administrating a Tableau Server

To reproduce the examples presented in this chapter, you will have to know how to connect to Tableau Server, open published Workbooks, and create new Workbooks online.

Interacting

The major change comes in Tableau 2018.3 with the new browsing experience: mixed content. However, there are other nice new features when interacting with a view like the preview for Mobile layout and the ability to tag people in the comments.

Mixed content (2018.3)

From version 2018.3, Tableau Server has two ways to display the content. The new default way is called mixed content, and it shows different types of content in the same place.

Before Tableau Server 2018.3, the...