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Learning Tableau 2022 - Fifth Edition

By : Joshua N. Milligan
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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

Understanding the Tableau Prep Builder interface

You’ll find a lot of similarities in the interfaces of Tableau Prep Builder and Tableau Desktop. The home screen of Tableau Prep Builder will look similar to this:

Figure 16.1: The Tableau Prep Builder welcome screen with numbering to identify key components of the UI

The following components have been numbered in Figure 16.1:

  1. The menu includes options for opening files, editing and running flows, signing into Tableau Server, and various Help functions.

    We’ll define a flow in the next section. For now, think of a flow in terms of Tableau Prep’s equivalent of a Tableau Desktop workbook.

    Also notice the Connections pane to the left, immediately beneath the File menu. It is collapsed initially, but will contain a list of data connections as you create them.

  1. The two large buttons at the top give you the option to Open a Flow, which opens an existing Tableau...