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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

Hardware and on-the-fly techniques

Even though Tableau Desktop does not need a lot in terms of hardware, it still happens that company desktops or laptops are underpowered, especially if you are a so-called business user who does not require programming tools or lots of processing power in your day-to-day work.

Therefore, in this section, we will discuss the technical requirements. As per www.tableau.com, the latest technical requirements are:

Windows

Microsoft Windows 8/8.1, Windows 10 (x64), Windows 11

2 GB memory

1.5 GB minimum free disk space

CPUs must support SSE4.2 and POPCNT instruction sets

Mac

macOS Catalina 10.15, macOS...