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Tableau 10 Complete Reference

By : Joshua N. Milligan, Tristan Guillevin
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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 file types


In addition to the file types mentioned before, there are quite a few other file types associated with Tableau. The following are some of the Tableau file types (with commonly used ones in bold):

  • .tbm: This stands for Tableau Bookmark. This is an XML file containing definitions of a static snapshot of a single view and associated data source(s). As sheets can now be copied and pasted from one workbook to another, this file type is largely not needed. You can create a bookmark and import it into other workbooks from the Window menu.
  • .tde: This stands for Tableau Data Extract, which is a binary file containing data extracted from another source. The .tde file by itself does not contain information about the original data source.
  • .tds: This stands for Tableau Data Source, which is an XML file containing the definition of a data source (server name, file path, and so on) but does not contain the data. You can export a data source as a .tds file by right-clicking on the data source...