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Tableau 10 Business Intelligence Cookbook

By : Donabel Santos, Paul Banoub
Book Image

Tableau 10 Business Intelligence Cookbook

By: Donabel Santos, Paul Banoub

Overview of this book

Tableau is a software tool that can speed up data analysis through its rich visualization capabilities, and help uncover insights for better and smarter decision making. This book is for the business, technology, data and analytics professionals who use and analyze data and data-driven approaches to support business operations and strategic initiatives in their organizations. This book provides easy-to-follow recipes to get the reader up and running with Tableau 10, and covers basic to advanced use cases and scenarios. The book starts with building basic charts in Tableau and moves on to building more complex charts by incorporating different Tableau features and interactivity components. There is an entire chapter dedicated to dashboard techniques and best practices. A number of recipes specifically for geospatial visualization, analytics, and data preparation are also covered. By the end of this book, you’ll have gained confidence and competence to analyze and communicate data and insights more efficiently and effectively by creating compelling interactive charts, dashboards, and stories in Tableau.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Tableau 10 Business Intelligence Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgements
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Creating a unit chart


Unit charts, also referred to as pictogram charts, display each unit of measure as a single mark or symbol. While other types of charts may be more effective and less cluttered, unit charts may create more engagement because of the images and visuals used.

In this recipe, we will create a unit chart that shows all the medals that were won by Canada in the Summer Olympics from 1896-2008.

Getting ready

To follow this recipe, open B05527_02 – STARTER.twbx. Use the worksheet called Unit Chart, and connect to the ALL MEDALISTS (Summer_Olympic_medallists_1896-2008) data source.

How to do it...

The following are the steps to create a unit chart:

  1. From Dimensions, drag NOC to the Filters shelf and filter to CAN.

  2. From Dimensions, drag Edition to Rows.

  3. From Dimensions, drag City to Rows, to the right of Edition.

  4. Create a calculated field called # of Medals. This field should be fixed to Edition and NOC so that it is not affected by the data fields (pills) used in the view.

  5. From Dimensions...