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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

Extending geo-spatial analytics with distance measures

Our last use case is also geo-spatial analysis on the same Chicago traffic dataset, but this time, we will add another component. We will look to rent a new place but with the requirement that there are no more than n intersections in a radius of x and Navy Pier should be at most y miles away. The variables n, x, and y should be interactive in order for us to make changes and have a very flexible dashboard experience. The questions to ask about this task are:

  • How can we add any given location in Chicago to our dataset? It is currently only showing intersections and violations.
  • How can we make the n, x, and y variables?
  • How can we add a radius indicator to any given point on the map?
  • How can we measure the distance between two variable points?

All those questions will be answered in the following steps:

  1. Go back to the workbook related to this chapter.
  2. Right-click on the worksheet...