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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)

Introduction to worksheets

After connecting to a data source, you will see a worksheet tab entitled Sheet1 in the lower menu ribbon. Click on it:

The worksheet page contains many items (menus, toolbars, panes, cards, shelves, and so on). You can think of the worksheet as the canvas on which you will paint your story or the view of the data you wish to present:

We will walk through the individual components of the worksheet here:

Section Description

A

Workbook menu: This contains the workbook name, main menu, and options for the tableau workbook.

B

Data Source page: Click this icon to go to the Data Source page.

C

Data and Analytics pane: This contains the fields from data sources and options for manipulation and organization.

D

Cards: Drag fields from the data pane onto cards to edit and format the visualization.

E

Shelves: Drag fields from the...