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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

Utilizing OData, Data Densification, Big Data, and Google BigQuery

Many questions that Tableau newbies have are not related to data preparation, joins, unions, data blending, or data structures, but rather, some of the following:

  • How can I remove null dates from the view?
  • Why does a table calculation display numbers that don’t exist in the underlying data?
  • How does Tableau work with big data?
  • Will Tableau still perform well if I query millions of rows?

This chapter will answer all of the above. As always, the Tableau help pages provide an excellent resource too. Some useful links to explore these topics further are:

In this chapter, we will discuss the following topics:

  • Using the OData connector
  • Data densification
  • Domain completion
  • ...