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Mastering Tableau 2019.1 - Second Edition

By : Marleen Meier, David Baldwin
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Mastering Tableau 2019.1 - Second Edition

By: Marleen Meier, David Baldwin

Overview of this book

Tableau is one of the leading business intelligence (BI) tools used to solve BI and analytics challenges. With this book, you will master Tableau's features and offerings in various paradigms of the BI domain. This book is also the second edition of the popular Mastering Tableau series, with new features, examples, and updated code. The book covers essential Tableau concepts and its advanced functionalities. Using Tableau Hyper and Tableau Prep, you’ll be able to handle and prepare data easily. You’ll gear up to perform complex joins, spatial joins, union, and data blending tasks using practical examples. Following this, you’ll learn how to perform data densification to make displaying granular data easier. Next, you’ll explore expert-level examples to help you with advanced calculations, mapping, and visual design using various Tableau extensions. With the help of examples, you’ll also learn about improving dashboard performance, connecting Tableau Server, and understanding data visualizations. In the final chapters, you’ll cover advanced use cases such as Self-Service Analytics, Time Series Analytics, and Geo-Spatial Analytics, and learn to connect Tableau to R, Python, and MATLAB. By the end of this book, you’ll have mastered the advanced offerings of Tableau and be able to tackle common and not-so-common challenges faced in the BI domain.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
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Section 1: Tableau Concepts, Basics
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Section 2: Advanced Calculations, Mapping, Visualizations
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Section 3: Connecting Tableau to R, Python, and Matlab

Other file types

The remaining file types you should be familiar with are not particularly relevant for Tableau Server and will thus only be briefly discussed here. There might be some issue with the compatibility of Tableau Desktop Extracts and Tableau Server Versions. A full list of compatibility scenarios can be found at https://www.tableau.com/support/hyper-resources. Let's take a look at the following other file types:

  • Hyper: To know more about hyper, you may refer to the following website https://www.tableau.com/support/hyper-resources.
  • Tableau Data Extract: The .tde file can be generated via the following: if a .twb file is opened in Tableau Desktop, a .tde file can be created by right-clicking on a data source in the Data pane and selecting Extract Data. After selecting the desired options, Tableau will provide a dialog box for the author to save the .tde file in...