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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

Visualizing world indices correlations

Imagine you are working on the world indices dataset and your line manager gives you the following task:

Create a dashboard for me in which I can easily spot all correlated world indices and their distribution. I need it by tomorrow morning.

Now, take a few minutes before you continue reading and think about how you would tackle this task. The dataset contains 67 columns with various indices, like birth registrations or emission values, exports and imports, and forest areas, divided into 188 rows, where each row represents one country.

Write down your planned steps, open the workbook related to this chapter from https://public.tableau.com/profile/marleen.meier, and follow your steps; time it in order to get a better feel for time estimates when working with Tableau. This way, you can make sure that you can deliver on time and manage expectations if you are ever asked how long it will take to build a certain dashboard.

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