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Mastering Tableau 2026

Mastering Tableau 2026 - Fifth Edition

By : Marleen Meier
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Mastering Tableau 2026

Mastering Tableau 2026

By: Marleen Meier

Overview of this book

Master the full capabilities of Tableau to design, build, and scale modern data visualization and business intelligence solutions. This book takes you beyond the basics to help you create advanced Tableau dashboards, perform efficient data preparation with Tableau Prep Builder, and deliver impactful analytics across your organization. Through practical examples, you’ll learn how to turn raw data into meaningful insights using proven Tableau data visualization techniques. As you progress, you’ll work with calculated fields and LOD expressions to build more flexible and powerful analyses. You’ll also explore performance optimization, deployment, and collaboration using Tableau Server, along with best practices for data governance and security in enterprise environments. In addition, the book covers AI-powered Tableau features that enhance analysis and accelerate insight discovery. You’ll apply advanced techniques such as time series analysis, geospatial analytics, and data modeling, and extend Tableau’s capabilities through Python and R integration for more sophisticated analytics workflows. By the end of this book, you’ll be equipped to build scalable, high-performance Tableau analytics solutions, enabling you to solve complex business problems with confidence.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
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Chapter 15: The Intelligent Era of Tableau AI, Pulse, and Next
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Improving Performance

Once people are familiar with Tableau's functionality, they soon run into another type of issue: performance. You might all have experienced staring at the screen while reading Loading Data or Executing Query. But don't worry, we've got you! If designed accordingly, Tableau dashboards can perform very well, even with large amounts of data.

This chapter will address various aspects of performance with the intent of empowering you with techniques to create workbooks that load quickly and respond snappily to end-user interaction.

In this chapter, we will discuss the following topics:

  • Understanding the performance-recording dashboard
  • Hardware and on-the-fly techniques
  • Connecting to data sources
  • Working with extracts
  • Using filters wisely
  • Efficient calculations
  • Other ways to improve performance

As you can see, there are many topics we have to cover with regard to performance improvement...

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