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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

Chapter 7. Beyond the Basic Chart Types

Data visualization is such a new and vibrant field that new things can be discovered almost daily. Visit https://d3js.org/ or https://github.com/mbostock/d3/wiki/Gallery and you will find an ever-expanding gallery of visualization types for all kinds of use case scenarios. Many of the visualization types listed on these websites are reproducible in Tableau. Due to their sheer number, it is not possible to review a substantial percentage in the space allotted in a chapter of a book. However, what can be covered are visualization types and concepts that will hopefully prove useful and stimulating.

The assumption behind this chapter is that you are familiar with basic chart types such as bar, line graph, treemap, pie, and area. Exotic chart types such as Sankey and Node-Link diagrams, though reproducible in Tableau, are not covered because such chart types are not typically useful. Instead, the focus will be on the middle ground, with the intent of relating...