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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

Dual axes and layering maps

You might recall that on many different occasions throughout the previous chapters, we used dual axes. A dual axes visualization can also be achieved with maps, and, even better, since the Tableau 2020.4 release, maps can be layered. We simply put another layer with the same structure (which in this case is a map), and per layer, we can display different data.

We will look at two exercises, the first one being about the use of dual axes and the second one will include map layers.

Using dual axes

Let's get started:

  1. First, we need a dataset. I simply created one in Excel myself; feel free to create your own, copy what you see in the following screenshot, or download the file from this book's GitHub repository (https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Mastering-Tableau-2021). Name the file freight:

    Figure 9.20: Excel

  2. Connect the new dataset to Tableau and open a new worksheet called Dual-axis map.
  3. Double...