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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

Swapping maps

We will now create a dashboard that allows the end user to choose between the various maps we just discussed. The technique used for this exercise is known as sheet swapping. However, a deeper dive into this technique is presented in Chapter 11, Designing Dashboard and Best Practices for Visualizations.

Let’s look at the necessary steps:

  1. Navigate to the MapSwap sheet in the workbook associated with this chapter. Double-click on State. Set the Marks card view to Map, click on Color, set Opacity to 0%, and lastly, set Border to Automatic:
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Figure 9.52: Color

  1. Duplicate the MapSwap sheet twice:

Figure 9.53: Duplicate MapSwap sheet

  1. Select the MapSwap sheet and navigate to Map | Background Maps | Normal.
  2. Select the MapSwap (2) sheet and navigate to Map | Background Maps | Dark.
  3. Select the MapSwap (3) sheet and navigate to Map | Background Maps | Satellite.
  4. Create a parameter called Show...