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Tableau Desktop Certified Associate: Exam Guide

By : Dmitry Anoshin, JC Gillet, Fabian Peri, Radhika Biyani, Gleb Makarenko
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Tableau Desktop Certified Associate: Exam Guide

By: Dmitry Anoshin, JC Gillet, Fabian Peri, Radhika Biyani, Gleb Makarenko

Overview of this book

The Tableau Desktop Certified Associate exam measures your knowledge of Tableau Desktop and your ability to work with data and data visualization techniques. This book will help you to become well-versed in Tableau software and use its business intelligence (BI) features to solve BI and analytics challenges. With the help of this book, you'll explore the authors' success stories and their experience with Tableau. You'll start by understanding the importance of Tableau certification and the different certification exams, along with covering the exam format, Tableau basics, and best practices for preparing data for analysis and visualization. The book builds on your knowledge of advanced Tableau topics such as table calculations for solving problems. You'll learn to effectively visualize geographic data using vector maps. Later, you'll discover the analytics capabilities of Tableau by learning how to use features such as forecasting. Finally, you'll understand how to build and customize dashboards, while ensuring they convey information effectively. Every chapter has examples and tests to reinforce your learning, along with mock tests in the last section. By the end of this book, you'll be able to efficiently prepare for the certification exam with the help of mock tests, detailed explanations, and expert advice from the authors.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
Free Chapter
1
Section 1: Getting Started with Tableau
3
Section 2: Answering Questions with Data
8
Section 3: Advanced Tableau
13
Mock Test A + B (Assessment)

Effective design practices

By the time you are ready to create a dashboard, you have already done a tremendous amount of work to create sheets. The sheets are the backbone of the dashboard; care must not only be taken in developing individual sheets but also how they are presented together in the dashboard. In this section, we will discuss best practices for effective dashboard design. While these tips are not exhaustive, they will provide you with a good starting point on your path to developing powerful dashboards.

Purpose

The most important item to consider before building any solution is to know the purpose. What questions will the dashboard answer? Having a list of specific questions to answer gives you a clear purpose...