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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

Extending geo-spatial analytics with distance measures

Our last use case is also geo-spatial analysis on the same Chicago traffic dataset, but this time, we will be adding another component. We will be looking to rent a new place but with the requirement that there are no more than n intersections in a radius of x and Navy Pier should be at most y miles away. The variables n, x, and y should be interactive in order for us to make changes and have a very flexible dashboard experience. The questions to ask about this task are:

  • How can we add any given location in Chicago to our dataset? It is currently only showing intersections and violations.
  • How can we make the n, x, and y variables?
  • How can we add a radius indicator to any given point on the map?
  • How can we measure the distance between two variable points?

All those questions will be answered in the following steps:

  1. Go back to the workbook related to this chapter.
  2. Right-click...