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Learning Tableau 2022 - Fifth Edition

By : Joshua N. Milligan
Book Image

Learning Tableau 2022 - Fifth Edition

By: Joshua N. Milligan

Overview of this book

Learning Tableau 2022 helps you get started with Tableau and data visualization, but it does more than just cover the basic principles. It helps you understand how to analyze and communicate data visually, and articulate data stories using advanced features. This new edition is updated with Tableau’s latest features, such as dashboard extensions, Explain Data, and integration with CRM Analytics (Einstein Analytics), which will help you harness the full potential of artificial intelligence (AI) and predictive modeling in Tableau. After an exploration of the core principles, this book will teach you how to use table and level of detail calculations to extend and alter default visualizations, build interactive dashboards, and master the art of telling stories with data. You’ll learn about visual statistical analytics and create different types of static and animated visualizations and dashboards for rich user experiences. We then move on to interlinking different data sources with Tableau’s Data Model capabilities, along with maps and geospatial visualization. You will further use Tableau Prep Builder’s ability to efficiently clean and structure data. By the end of this book, you will be proficient in implementing the powerful features of Tableau 2022 to improve the business intelligence insights you can extract from your data.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
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Index

Enhancing analysis with animation

Consider the following bar chart, which shows the correlation of Sales and Profit for each Department:

Figure 10.12: Sales and profit per Department

Notice the Region filter. Change the filter selection a few times in the Chapter 10 workbook. You’ll observe the standard behavior that occurs without animations: the circle marks are immediately redrawn at the new location determined by the filter. This works well, but there is a bit of a disconnect between filter settings. As you switch between regions, notice the mental difficulty in keeping track of where a mark was versus where it is with the new selection. Did one region’s mark increase in profit? Did it decrease in sales?

Now, turn on animations for the view. To do this, use the menu to select Format | Animations…. The Animations format pane will show on the left. Use it to turn On for the Selected Sheet:

Figure 10.13: The Animations format pane gives...