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Tableau 2019.x Cookbook

By : Dmitry Anoshin, Teodora Matic, Slaven Bogdanovic, Tania Lincoln, Dmitrii Shirokov
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Tableau 2019.x Cookbook

By: Dmitry Anoshin, Teodora Matic, Slaven Bogdanovic, Tania Lincoln, Dmitrii Shirokov

Overview of this book

Tableau has been one of the most popular business intelligence solutions in recent times, thanks to its powerful and interactive data visualization capabilities. Tableau 2019.x Cookbook is full of useful recipes from industry experts, who will help you master Tableau skills and learn each aspect of Tableau's ecosystem. This book is enriched with features such as Tableau extracts, Tableau advanced calculations, geospatial analysis, and building dashboards. It will guide you with exciting data manipulation, storytelling, advanced filtering, expert visualization, and forecasting techniques using real-world examples. From basic functionalities of Tableau to complex deployment on Linux, you will cover it all. Moreover, you will learn advanced features of Tableau using R, Python, and various APIs. You will learn how to prepare data for analysis using the latest Tableau Prep. In the concluding chapters, you will learn how Tableau fits the modern world of analytics and works with modern data platforms such as Snowflake and Redshift. In addition, you will learn about the best practices of integrating Tableau with ETL using Matillion ETL. By the end of the book, you will be ready to tackle business intelligence challenges using Tableau's features.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)

Getting started with Tabcmd

Tabcmd is great tool and it is the core component of your Business Intelligence solution, because it will help you with automation and integration with ETL and Data Warehouse. In this recipe, we will install Tabcmd on Windows and will learn how it can work with Tableau Server.

There are some common use case scenarios:

  • Refresh Extract
  • Generate Tableau Reader Book
  • Generate Dashboards in PDF and upload to Shared drive or Amazon S3
  • Export data from Tableau Server workbook and save in CSV or XLSX formats

You can think of Tabcmd as not only an administration tool, but also a kind of a self-service tool that may be used by end users for scheduling their dashboards, and so on.

Getting ready

We will...