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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

Data sources for recipes in this book


Here are some of the sample data sets from Tableau Public's Resources page (https://public.tableau.com/s/resources):

  • Top Baby Names in the US

  • Cat vs Dog Popularity in the US

  • Startup Venture Funding

  • Global Burden of Disease

  • Global Sport Finances

  • Summer Olympics Medalist Dataset

  • NFL stats, 1999-2013

  • Hollywood's Most Profitable Stories

  • Significant Volcanic Eruptions

  • Global Active Archive of Large Flood Events

  • Magnitude 6+ Earthquakes

Now let us look at ample data sets from other resources: