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Mastering Tableau

By : David Baldwin
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Mastering Tableau

By: David Baldwin

Overview of this book

Tableau has emerged as one of the most popular Business Intelligence solutions in recent times, thanks to its powerful and interactive data visualization capabilities. This book will empower you to become a master in Tableau by exploiting the many new features introduced in Tableau 10.0. You will embark on this exciting journey by getting to know the valuable methods of utilizing advanced calculations to solve complex problems. These techniques include creative use of different types of calculations such as row-level, aggregate-level, and more. You will discover how almost any data visualization challenge can be met in Tableau by getting a proper understanding of the tool’s inner workings and creatively exploring possibilities. You’ll be armed with an arsenal of advanced chart types and techniques to enable you to efficiently and engagingly present information to a variety of audiences through the use of clear, efficient, and engaging dashboards. Explanations and examples of efficient and inefficient visualization techniques, well-designed and poorly designed dashboards, and compromise options when Tableau consumers will not embrace data visualization will build on your understanding of Tableau and how to use it efficiently. By the end of the book, you will be equipped with all the information you need to create effective dashboards and data visualization solutions using Tableau.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Mastering Tableau
Credits
About the Author
www.Packtpub.com
Preface

Tableau Server revision history


In Tableau 9.3, revision history was introduced for workbooks, including .twb and .twbx files. In Tableau 10.0 revision history was extended to data sources, including .tds and .tdsx files. By default Tableau Server's revision history is set to 25. In other words, the past 25 versions of each workbook and data source are retrievable. Previous to Tableau 9.3, revision history was only available through third party tools such as InterWorks' Tableau Enterprise Deployment Tool.

In Tableau Desktop, if you attempt to upload a workbook or data source with the same name as a previously uploaded file, Tableau Desktop will display a warning such as Data source is already in use. Publishing will overwrite the existing data source. If you proceed with the upload, revision control will be activated and the previous version of the file will remain accessible as a revision.

To access revision history for individual workbooks and data sources in Tableau Server, simply select...