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Learning Tableau 2019 - Third Edition

By : Joshua N. Milligan
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Learning Tableau 2019 - Third Edition

By: Joshua N. Milligan

Overview of this book

Tableau is the gold standard of business intelligence and visual analytics tools in every industry. It enables rapid data visualization and interpretation with charts, graphs, dashboards, and much more. Updated with the latest features of Tableau, this book takes you from the foundations of the Tableau 2019 paradigm through to advanced topics. This third edition of the bestselling guide by Tableau Zen Master, Joshua Milligan, will help you come to grips with updated features, such as set actions and transparent views. Beginning with installation, you'll create your first visualizations with Tableau and then explore practical examples and advanced techniques. You'll create bar charts, tree maps, scatterplots, time series, and a variety of other visualizations. Next, you'll discover techniques to overcome challenges presented by data structure and quality and engage in effective data storytelling and decision making with business critical information. Finally, you'll be introduced to Tableau Prep, and learn how to use it to integrate and shape data for analysis. By the end of this book, you will be equipped to leverage the powerful features of Tableau 2019 for decision making.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Free Chapter
1
Section 1: Tableau Foundations
5
Section 2: Leveraging the Full Power of Tableau
10
Digging Deeper - Trends, Clustering, Distributions, and Forecasting
11
Section 3: Data Prep and Structuring
14
Section 4: Advanced Techniques and Sharing with Others

Trends

World Population.xlsx is included in the Chapter 08 directory. It contains one record for each country for each year from 1960 to 2015, measuring population. Using this dataset, let's take a look at the historical trends of various countries. Create a view similar to the one shown in the following screenshot, which shows the change in population over time for Afghanistan and Australia. You'll notice that Country Name has been filtered to include only Afghanistan and Australia and the field has additionally been added to the Color and Label shelves:

From this visualization alone, you can make several interesting observations. The growth of the two countries' populations was fairly similar up to 1980. At that point, the population of Afghanistan went into decline until 1988 when the population of Afghanistan started to increase. At some point around 1996...