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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

Beyond the Basic Chart Types

The assumption behind this chapter is that the reader is familiar with basic chart types such as bar, line graph, treemap, pie, and area. The focus will be on the middle ground, with the intent of relating how to improve visualization types you may already use on a regular basis, as well as introducing chart types with which you may be unfamiliar, but that are, nonetheless, widely useful. And, finally, I will introduce you to Tableau extensions, which offer some more exotic chart types.

Perhaps the most useful part of this chapter is actually not contained in the book at all, but rather in the workbook associated with the chapter. Be sure to download that workbook (the link is provided in the following section) to check out a wider range of visualization types.

This chapter will explore the following visualization types and topics:

  • Improving popular visualizations
  • Custom background images
  • Tableau extensions

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