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Maximizing Tableau Server

By : Patrick Sarsfield, Brandi Locker
Book Image

Maximizing Tableau Server

By: Patrick Sarsfield, Brandi Locker

Overview of this book

Tableau Server is a business intelligence application that provides a centralized location to store, edit, share, and collaborate on content, such as dashboards and curated data sources. This book gets you up and running with Tableau Server to help you increase end-user engagement for your published work as well as reduce or eliminate redundant tasks. You’ll explore Tableau Server's structure and how to get started by connecting, publishing content, and navigating the software interface. Next, you’ll learn when and how to update the settings of your content at various levels to best utilize Tableau Server’s features. You’ll understand how to interact with the Tableau Server interface to locate, sort, filter, manage and customize content. Later, the book shows you how to leverage other valuable features that enable you and your audience to share, download, and interact with content on Tableau Server. As you progress, you’ll cover principles to increase the performance of your published content. All along, the book shows you how to navigate, interact with, and use Tableau Server with the help of engaging examples and best practices shared by recognized Tableau professionals. By the end of this Tableau book, you’ll have a solid understanding of how to use Tableau Server to manage content, automate tasks, and increase end-user engagement.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
1
Section 1: Getting Started with Tableau Server
4
Section 2: Navigating and Customizing the Tableau Server Interface
8
Section 3: Managing Content on Tableau Server
12
Section 4: Final Thoughts

Chapter 10: Conclusion

Tableau Server is an extremely powerful and valuable tool. When leveraged properly, it can help you increase the utilization of the content on your server, seamlessly manage everyday tasks behind the scenes, manage the security of your data, and can help organize content and share analytic insights throughout your organization.

Tableau Public provides a way for anyone to practice and improve their data visualization skills and get involved with the Tableau community. Doing so will not only sharpen your skillset for your benefit and career potential, but it will also benefit your organization when you apply the data visualization skills you have learned to your daily work.

In this chapter, we will review what you have learned throughout this book and provide suggested resources that will help you further your skills in data visualization, Tableau Desktop, and Tableau Server.

In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

  • What you have learned...