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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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Other Books You May Enjoy
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Index

Tableau Exchange

To access Tableau Exchange, go to this website: https://exchange.tableau.com.

Figure 8.81: Tableau Exchange

Accelerators and extensions can also be accessed from within Tableau Server and/or Tableau Desktop. Let us dive right into Tableau Exchange and see what it has to offer!

Tableau extensions

Extensions are the oldest product and are accessible from the Object pane on your Tableau dashboard. Basically, extensions allow you to use third-party tools directly in Tableau. Some selected extensions are available at https://extensiongallery.tableau.com, and the list is always growing.

Please be aware that Tableau does not provide support or guarantees/security measures for extensions. Those APIs are built by external parties and should be treated as such. Check with your IT security team first if you want to use them at work.

Let’s have a look at one example from Infotopics – a Sankey chart extension.

Using an extension

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