Preface

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 and solutions to real-world challenges, this book will take you from mastering essential Tableau concepts to advanced functionalities. A new chapter on data governance has also been added.

Throughout this book, you will learn how to use various files and databases to connect to Tableau Desktop and Prep Builder to easily perform data preparation and handling, perform complex joins, spatial joins, unions, and data blending tasks using practical examples. You will 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 Exchange.

Later chapters will teach you all about improving dashboard performance, connecting to Tableau Server, and understanding data visualization with hands-on examples. Finally, you will cover advanced use cases such as self-service analysis, time series analysis, and geo-spatial analysis, and connect Tableau to Python and R to implement programming functionalities within Tableau.

Finally, a brand-new chapter has been added that covers a very hot topic: data governance. You will explore an introduction to important features of Tableau Server that will get you prepared for compliance with GDPR and other data privacy and governance regulations.

By the end of this Tableau book, you will have mastered Tableau 2023 and you will be able to tackle common and advanced challenges in the data analytics space.