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Mastering Tableau 10 [Video]

By : Tim Messar
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Mastering Tableau 10 [Video]

By: Tim Messar

Overview of this book

<p>Tableau is perfect for developing creative and powerful data visualizations for any business. It offers professionals looking to spot trends, outliers, and patterns an insightful, data-driven business focus&nbsp; that truly separates the signal from the noise.</p> <p>This course walks you through the fundamentals of Tableau, helping you hone your skills and master core volumes such as Working with Data in Tableau. You will immerse yourself in Tableau 10's new Data Prep features, to provide data integration success. The video will provide viewers with high-quality practical content explaining how to master advanced calculations, dashboards, and visualizations with Tableau. It will teach experienced users how to answer complex queries they've been wrestling with, while also introducing them to tricks they never knew were possible.</p> <p>Lastly, Advanced Interactivity brings it all together by demonstrating many ways in which users can interact with information at their fingertips.</p> <h1>Style and approach</h1> <p>The obvious next step for Tableau users who have learned to use Tableau for basic analytics and visualization is to explore further and leverage it to create advanced visualizations. Tableau is capable of handling complex data queries and creating more insightful visualizations and this video will teach how to create these. Most Tableau users have information on what it takes to start using Tableau, but this video will take them beyond the beginner level; you'll master performing advanced analytics with Tableau and creating visually appealing insightful visualizations in a step-by-step manner.</p>
Table of Contents (7 chapters)
Chapter 3
Visual Analytics at the Core
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Section 6
Getting Analytical
This video aims to present context and a deeper understanding of data through Tableau’s Analytics pane and mainly three main tools: trend lines, references lines, and forecasting. - Connect to the main data source - Demonstrate the analytic pane and how to use Trend lines and reference lines - Demonstrate forecasting capabilities in Tableau Desktop