Book Image

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

Why and how to get involved with the Tableau community

One of the most important things that sets Tableau apart is its community. We have personally never used another piece of software that has as robust of a community as Tableau. The Tableau community is made up of Tableau users who are eager to learn more and support others. They range from complete novices to recognized experts and have a variety of skillsets. They are passionate about data analytics, visualizing information, networking, and building relationships. They help and encourage each other, challenge one another, share ideas and information, and inspire one another to help elevate the graphicacy and data literacy of those involved. These data-literate individuals help propagate this new knowledge throughout their respective organizations and groups.

Why get involved?

It can be intimidating to try and enter a new community, particularly if you are new to using the software or are not confident in your skillset yet...