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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

Getting the best images out of Tableau

In this section, we will review options for exporting an image from Tableau into other applications and discuss the pros and cons of each method. We’ll begin by surveying various screenshot applications and then we will consider methods that are available directly in Tableau.

Perhaps the easiest way to capture an image in Tableau is to use a screen capture tool. The following are some screen capture tools that won’t impact your pocketbook:

  • Grab is a screen capture utility natively available on macOS. Grab is located in the Utilities folder under Applications. You can also access it via the following shortcuts: Shift + Command + 3 for a screenshot, Shift + Command + 4 for a partial screenshot, and Shift + Command + 5 for a timer screenshot.
  • Snipping Tool is installed by default with Windows, a very simple tool with few bells and whistles, easy to use and effective.
  • Greenshot is an open-source screen capture...