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Data Modeling with Tableau

By : Kirk Munroe
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Data Modeling with Tableau

By: Kirk Munroe

Overview of this book

Tableau is unlike most other BI platforms that have a single data modeling tool and enterprise data model (for example, LookML from Google’s Looker). That doesn’t mean Tableau doesn’t have enterprise data governance; it is both robust and highly flexible. This book will help you effectively use Tableau governance models to build a data-driven organization. Data Modeling with Tableau is an extensive guide, complete with step-by-step explanations of essential concepts, practical examples, and hands-on exercises. As you progress through the chapters, you’ll learn the role that Tableau Prep Builder and Tableau Desktop each play in data modeling. You’ll also explore the components of Tableau Server and Tableau Cloud that make data modeling more robust, secure, and performant. Moreover, by extending data models for Ask and Explain Data, you’ll gain the knowledge required to extend analytics to more people in their organizations, leading to better data-driven decisions. Finally, this book will guide you through the entire Tableau stack and the techniques required to build the right level of governance into Tableau data models for the correct use cases. By the end of this Tableau book, you’ll have a firm understanding of how to leverage data modeling in Tableau to benefit your organization.
Table of Contents (22 chapters)
1
Part 1: Data Modeling on the Tableau Platform
4
Part 2: Tableau Prep Builder for Data Modeling
9
Part 3: Tableau Desktop for Data Modeling
14
Part 4: Data Modeling with Tableau Server and Online

Use case 3 – information systems analytics of internal employee intranet site visits

Scenario:

We have an information systems analyst who must produce dashboards for the organization to see how employees are visiting and interacting with the organization’s internal web properties. The dashboards should be available to the entire organization as executive management has a goal for most employees to help drive employees to web-first interactions.

The data comes from a database that captures all site interactions. This table is then joined to an internal employee and internal systems tables for context.

The company uses Tableau Server and has a secure project set up with all the groups who can see and interact with these dashboards.

Tableau modeling steps:

A data steward creates a published data source for information system analysts and dashboard developers that is extracted from the underlying tables at the end of each section of data to improve query performance...