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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)

Telling stories

In this section, we will discuss stories. In order to create a story, you must have created at least one sheet. A story is a blank page where you can combine sheets with text and other objects. You create multiple story points and present them one after another to tell a story with the data. Stories are an excellent way to share the findings of your analysis. To create a story, click the New Story button at the bottom of the workbook. The Story tab is available at the bottom of the workbook:

Once you have clicked on the New Story button (bottom of the workbook), a blank story page will open. A story is a collection of visualizations presented in an ordered format. A story is similar to a PowerPoint presentation. The story comprises a series of story points. The following screenshot shows a blank story page:

There are two tabs in the menu on the left-hand side...