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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

Heatmaps

I want to share a feature with you that was part of an earlier Tableau release and has proven to be very useful when working with geographical data. It is the mark type Density with which you can create heatmaps. This new feature is not limited to maps; you can also use it for any other type of chart. However, it is most efficient for dense data where patterns cannot be spotted easily.

The following steps will illustrate an example of creating a heatmap:

  1. Open the Citylimits tab in the workbook related to this chapter. If you did not complete the previous exercise, please open the Citylimits tab from the solutions workbook of this chapter.
  2. Duplicate the worksheet, and call it City Limits (2).
  3. Set the Marks card type to Density:

    Figure 9.18: Texas city density

  4. Click on Colour in the Marks card and select any color you like. I chose Density Gold Dark.
  5. Decrease Size in the Marks card by dragging the slider to the left. Drag...