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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

Going Beyond the Basics

The assumption behind this chapter is that the you are familiar with basic chart types such as bar, line graph, treemap, pie, and area, and that you have used Tableau to build multiple charts. The intention of this chapter is to focus on how to improve visualization types you may already use on a regular basis, as well as introducing chart types with which you may be unfamiliar but that are, nonetheless, widely useful. I will then introduce you to Tableau Exchange, a platform that contains extensions, accelerators, and connectors, which offer some more exotic chart types.

Perhaps the most useful part of this chapter is not contained in the book at all but, rather, in the workbook associated with the chapter. Be sure to download that workbook (the link will be provided in the following section) to check out a wide range of visualization types.

This chapter will explore the following visualization types and topics:

  • Improving popular visualizations...