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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

Exploring Tableau Server and Tableau Cloud

Tableau Server and Tableau Cloud are online solutions for sharing, distributing, and collaborating on content created in Tableau Desktop and/or Tableau Public. Its benefits include providing an environment where end users can securely view, explore, and refresh both real-time and scheduled data visualizations. The main difference between Tableau Server and Tableau Cloud is that Tableau Server needs to be maintained by you, while Tableau Cloud is fully hosted in the cloud by Tableau and backed up by Amazon Web Services infrastructure. For ease of reading, we will further refer to both as Tableau Server.

The scope of this chapter is limited to the Tableau Desktop author’s interaction with Tableau Server. Topics such as installation and upgrades, authentication and access, security configuration, and command-line utilities are not related to the Tableau Desktop author’s interaction with Tableau Server and are thus not included...