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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

Interactivity with actions

In Tableau, an action is a user-initiated event that triggers a response from Tableau. You’ve seen a few examples of actions being used in dashboards already. We’ll now consider some details of how actions work in Tableau.

Tableau supports six kinds of actions:

  • Filter actions: The user’s action causes one or more filters to be applied to one or more views.
  • Highlight actions: The user’s action causes specific marks and headers to be highlighted in one or more views.
  • URL actions: The user’s action causes a specific URL to be opened (either in a browser, in a new tab, or in an embedded web object).
  • Go to Sheet: The user’s action causes navigation to a selected sheet or dashboard.
  • Parameter actions: The user’s action changes the value of a parameter. This allows the user to visually interact with parameters in new and exciting ways!
  • Set actions: The user’s action...