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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

All About Data – Data Densification, Cubes, and Big Data

Many data-related questions that Tableau newbies have are not related to data preparation, joins, unions, data blending, or data structures. Some of those questions are as follows:

  • I just created a table calculation and observed that the view displays numbers that don't exist in the underlying data. Why?
  • We use SAP Business Warehouse (SAP BW) in my organization. What should I know about how Tableau works with cubes?
  • How does Tableau work with big data?

This chapter will continue the data discussion from the previous chapters by addressing the topics these three preceding questions target, respectively: data densification, working with cubes, and Tableau and big data.

There are a few people who have worked diligently to provide resources that were very helpful while writing this chapter. Joe Mako has championed data densification—be sure to check out his video on Vimeo (https...