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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)

To get the most out of this book

You will need to download Tableau Desktop 2018. Some understanding of BI concepts and Tableau is required.

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Conventions used

There are a number of text conventions used throughout this book.

CodeInText: Indicates code words in text, database table names, folder names, filenames, file extensions, pathnames, dummy URLs, user input, and Twitter handles. Here is an example: "You will also need to save a local copy of the Baby_names.csv dataset to your device, as we will be using it in the recipes."

A block of code is set as follows:

install.packages('rpart',repos='http://cran.us.r-project.org')
library(rpart)
cars <- read.table("C:\\!Slaven\\6 KNJIGA\\4 Advanced analytics\\4 decision tree\\new_or_used_car.csv", header=T, sep=",")
fit <- rpart(FuturePurchase ~ Age + Gender + Education + FamilyStatus + CurrentCar + AgeOfCurrentCar + MunicipalityType, method="class", data=cars)
plot(fit, uniform=TRUE, main="Classification of new cars buyers")
text(fit, all=TRUE, cex=.8)

Any command-line input or output is written as follows:

set enable_result_cache_for_session to off;

Bold: Indicates a new term, an important word, or words that you see onscreen. For example, words in menus or dialog boxes appear in the text like this. Here is an example: "From the Connect pane on the left-hand side, choose the Text file option."

Warnings or important notes appear like this.
Tips and tricks appear like this.