Chapter 1, Building Your Data Model, will help to understand how to connect to your data and use Tableau's data modeling capabilities.
Chapter 2, Working with Worksheets, will show you how to use the data that you have prepared to begin building your visualizations in order to share insights. This chapter will demonstrate how to use Tableau's worksheets to conduct your analysis.
Chapter 3, Analyzing Data Using Charts, teaches you about the various chart types that are available in Tableau. The chapter will also discuss how formatting can help create more effective visualizations.
Chapter 4, Visualizing Geographic Data, dives deeper into map visuals and will enable you to understand more about the mapping capabilities in Tableau. This chapter will explain how to create, navigate, and customize maps.
Chapter 5, Understanding Simple Calculations in Tableau, helps you to create simple calculations that can be leveraged across the various visuals that we have read about in the previous chapters.
Chapter 6, Tableau Table Calculations, looks at more advanced table calculations, where the results of the calculations observed in this chapter will be used for building further calculations.
Chapter 7, Level of Detail Expressions, covers the three types of level of detail expressions available in Tableau and explains how they can be used to aggregate data at a level that is either more granular or less granular than the specified dimensions.
Chapter 8, Leveraging Analytics Capabilities, covers some of Tableau's analytics tools, enabling you to create reference lines or bands, cluster data in similar buckets, identify trends, and forecast what your data will look like in the future.
Chapter 9, Building Your Dashboards, will walk you through features and best practices that will help you to build actionable and informative dashboards.