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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)
Free Chapter
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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

Tableau Server revision history

In Tableau 9.3, revision history was introduced for workbooks, including the .twb and .twbx files. In Tableau 10.0, revision history was extended to data sources, including the .tds and .tdsx files. By default, Tableau Server's revision history is set to 25. In other words, the past 25 versions of each workbook and data source are retrievable.

In Tableau Desktop, if you attempt to upload a workbook or data source with the same name as a previously uploaded file, Tableau Desktop will display a warning such as Data source is already in use. Publishing will overwrite the existing data source. If you proceed with the upload, revision control will be activated and the previous version of the file will remain accessible as a revision.

To access the revision history for individual workbooks and data sources in Tableau Server, simply select Content...