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Mastering Tableau 2023 - Fourth Edition

By : Marleen Meier
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Mastering Tableau 2023 - Fourth Edition

By: Marleen Meier

Overview of this book

This edition of the bestselling Tableau guide will teach you how to leverage Tableau's newest features and offerings in various paradigms of the BI domain. Updated with fresh topics, including the newest features in Tableau Server, Prep, and Desktop, as well as up-to-date examples, this book will take you from mastering essential Tableau concepts to advance functionalities. A chapter on data governance has also been added. Throughout this book, you'll learn how to use Tableau Hyper files and Prep Builder to easily perform data preparation and handling, as well as complex joins, spatial joins, unions, and data blending tasks using practical examples. You'll also get to grips with executing data densification and explore other expert-level examples to help you with calculations, mapping, and visual design using Tableau extensions. Later chapters will teach you all about improving dashboard performance, connecting to Tableau Server, and understanding data visualization with examples. Finally, you'll cover advanced use cases, such as self-service analysis, time series analysis, geo-spatial analysis, and how to connect Tableau to Python and R to implement programming functionalities within Tableau. By the end of this book, you'll have mastered Tableau 2023 and be able to tackle common and advanced challenges in the BI domain.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
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Index

Creating worksheets and dashboards

At the heart of Tableau are worksheets and dashboards. Worksheets contain individual visualizations and dashboards contain one or more worksheets. Additionally, worksheets and dashboards may be combined into stories to communicate particular insights to the end user through a presentation environment. Lastly, all worksheets, dashboards, and stories are organized in workbooks, which can be accessed using Tableau Desktop, Server, Reader, or the Tableau mobile app.

At this point, I would like to introduce you to Tableau Public (https://public.tableau.com/app/discover). At times, you might need some inspiration, or you might want to replicate a dashboard created by another Tableau user. In this case, Tableau Public will be your place to go! It is a web-based collection of dashboards, as well as a creator’s platform that allows you to design beautiful dashboards without a license or installation.

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