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Mastering Tableau 2021 - Third Edition

By : Marleen Meier, David Baldwin
Book Image

Mastering Tableau 2021 - Third Edition

By: Marleen Meier, David Baldwin

Overview of this book

Tableau is one of the leading business intelligence (BI) tools that can help you solve data analysis challenges. With this book, you will master Tableau's features and offerings in various paradigms of the BI domain. Updated with fresh topics including Quick Level of Detail expressions, the newest Tableau Server features, Einstein Discovery, and more, this book covers essential Tableau concepts and advanced functionalities. Leveraging Tableau Hyper files and using Prep Builder, you’ll be able to perform data preparation and handling easily. You’ll gear up to perform complex joins, spatial joins, unions, and data blending tasks using practical examples. Next, you’ll learn how to execute data densification and further explore expert-level examples to help you with calculations, mapping, and visual design using Tableau extensions. You’ll also learn about improving dashboard performance, connecting to Tableau Server and understanding data visualization with examples. Finally, you'll cover advanced use cases such as self-service analysis, time series analysis, and geo-spatial analysis, and connect Tableau to Python and R to implement programming functionalities within it. By the end of this Tableau book, you’ll have mastered the advanced offerings of Tableau 2021 and be able to tackle common and advanced challenges in the BI domain.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
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Index

Visualizing world indices correlations

Imagine you are working on the world indices dataset and your line manager gives you the following task:

Create a dashboard for me in which I can easily spot all correlated world indices and their distribution. I need it by tomorrow morning.

Now, take a few minutes before you continue reading and think about how you would tackle this task. The dataset contains 67 columns with various indices, like birth registrations or emission values, exports and imports, and forest areas, divided into 188 rows, where each row represents one country.

Write down your planned steps, open the workbook related to this chapter from https://public.tableau.com/profile/marleen.meier, and follow your steps; time it in order to get a better feel for time estimates when working with Tableau. This way, you can make sure that you can deliver on time and manage expectations if you are ever asked how long it will take to build a certain dashboard.

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