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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
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Preface

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Custom background images in Tableau open a world of potential. Imagine the ability to visualize any space. Possibilities encompass sports, healthcare, engineering, architecture, interior design, and much, much more. Despite this wealth of potential, use of background images in Tableau seems to me to be underutilized. Why? Part of the reason is because of the difficulty of generating datasets that can be used with background images.

Like the Tile Grid Map discussed previously, background images require a grid layout to pinpoint X, Y coordinates. In the following section we will address how to use Tableau to create a grid that can be superimposed on an image to instantly identify locations associated with X, Y coordinates and relatively quickly produce datasets that can be accessed by Tableau for visualization purposes. Specifically, we will use Tableau to generate the XML required to construct an SVG file that can be opened with a vector graphic tool. The tool that...