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Tableau Data Visualization Cookbook

By : Ashutosh Nandeshwar
Book Image

Tableau Data Visualization Cookbook

By: Ashutosh Nandeshwar

Overview of this book

<p>You know the feeling when you are asked to change or add a certain data point in your graph at the last minute. Usually, you have to scramble to complete the project and risk accuracy; this is not so with Tableau, however. Tableau is a revolutionary toolkit that lets you simply and effectively create high quality data visualizations.</p> <p>"Tableau Data Visualization Cookbook" will show you the exact steps required to generate simple to complex graphics. Whether they are pie charts or box plots, you can create such graphics with ease and confidence; no more searching for scripts or laborious Excel hacks. This book will help you make the most of Tableau and show you how to finish your projects quicker using this toolkit.<br />In this book you’ll start with getting your data into Tableau, move onto generating progressively complex graphics, and end with the finishing touches and packaging your work for distribution.</p> <p>This book is filled with practical recipes to help you create filled maps, use custom markers, add slider selectors, and create dashboards. You will learn how to manipulate data in various ways by applying various filters, logic, and calculating various aggregate measures. Then, we will create animated graphs and provide search box and drop-down selectors to users. This book will help you to create stunning graphics in very short amount of time.</p> <p>If you want to effortlessly create beautiful visualizations of data then "Tableau Data Visualization Cookbook" is for you!</p>
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Tableau Data Visualization Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Adding search box selectors


Search box selectors are useful when you want the readers to type a part of the value and yet be able to filter the data. This does assume that the readers know the underlying values of the filtered fields.

Getting ready

Let's use the sample file Sample – Coffee Chain (Access). Open a new worksheet and select Sample – Coffee Chain (Access) as the data source. Follow all the steps, except for the last step, given in the recipe Adding drop-down selectors.

How to do it...

Once the data is loaded on the worksheet and you have placed a quick filter, perform the following steps to add a search box selector to your visualization:

  1. From the quick filter drop-down menu, select Wildcard Match as shown in the following screenshot:

  2. To see this search box in action, enter cham in the search box and hit Enter. You'll see a visualization for the Product values that contain cham in their names as shown in the following screenshot: