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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

Summary

The ability to extend Tableau is amazing! With dashboard extensions, you have an ever-growing library of Tableau/Salesforce and third-party extensions. These can extend the user interface, provide integration with backend systems and platforms, and enhance the user experience in many ways. We even looked at an example of writing your own dashboard extensions. The ability to write custom code and host it on your own servers gives you the ultimate flexibility and control as you extend Tableau’s capabilities.

Analytics extensions give you the ability to run R and Python scripts and connect to other analytics engines. You are also able to leverage the amazing predictive capabilities of CRM Analytics / Einstein Discovery and use AI to detect patterns, uncover insights, and guide your decisions and actions based on your data!

In the next chapter, we’ll turn our attention to relating various datasets together in Tableau using the data model, joins, and blends...