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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

Trends

World Population.xlsx is included in the Chapter 09 directory. It contains one record for each country for each year from 1960 to 2015, measuring population. Using this dataset, let’s take a look at the historical trends of various countries. Create a view similar to the one shown in the following screenshot, which shows the change in population over time for Afghanistan and Australia. You’ll notice that Country Name has been filtered to include only Afghanistan and Australia and the field has additionally been added to the Color and Label shelves:

Figure 9.1: Population values for Afghanistan and Australia over time

From this visualization alone, you can make several interesting observations. The growth of the two countries’ populations was fairly similar up to 1980. At that point, the population of Afghanistan went into decline until 1988, when it started to increase. At some point around 1996, the population of Afghanistan exceeded that...