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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

Index

A

accelerators 322-325

actions 429

filter actions 429-432

highlight actions 433-435

navigation actions 436-438

parameter actions 438-440

set actions 440-443

URL actions 435, 436

using, instead of filters 519

addressing fields 194

aggregate-level calculation 31-34

aggregation 81-83

animation

using, in Tableau to create animation in PowerPoint 396, 397

using, to export many images 394-396

Auto Updates 499, 500

axis distributions

adding 464-467

B

bands 402-404

big data 212, 213

reference link 187, 212

blends 116

BMP 372

bulk rename 98

bullet graphs 256

basics 258-261

using 256-258

business intelligence (BI) 1

C

calculated joins

reference link 111

calculations

code values, prioritizing 520

chart lines 403

Clean functionality 70

code values

prioritizing 520

collapsible menu

for dashboards 426-428

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