Tableau Cookbook – Recipes for Data Visualization
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Tableau Cookbook – Recipes for Data Visualization

  1. 504 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Tableau Cookbook – Recipes for Data Visualization

About this book

Create beautiful data visualizations and interactive dashboards with TableauAbout This Book• Delve into the features and functionalities of Tableau from the ground up with this step-by-step guide that has over 50 "follow-me" recipes• Build rich visualizations to effectively highlight the underlying trends and patterns in your data• Build beautiful interactive dashboards and storyboards to stitch your visualizations together and tell a storyWho This Book Is ForThis book is for anyone who wishes to use Tableau. It will be of use to both beginners who want to learn Tableau from scratch and to more seasoned users who simply want a quick reference guide. This book is a ready reckoner guide for you. The book will be such that both new & existing Tableau users who don't know, or can't recall how to perform different Tableau tasks can use the book and be benefited from it.What You Will Learn• Get to grips with the Tableau workspace and terminologies and understand what data sources you can connect• Learn to create basic charts like bar chart, stacked bar, pie chart, line chart, area chart, tree map & word cloud• Go even further with more advanced visualizations such as scatter plot, box & whiskers plot, dual axis, bullet chart, Histograms, Maps, etc• Use pre-defined calculation and change its scope and direction to affect outcome• Learn to define Parameters and call them into parametric calculations that provide outcomes based on user inputs• Build Dashboards and use Actions to link multiple sheets on the dashboard• Connect to multiple data sources using Data Blending, Multiple Table Join within the same data source as well as across data sources, Custom SQL and learn to work with data Extracts• Compute statistical trends, build forecasting models and use Reference lines for benchmarkingIn DetailData is everywhere and everything is data!Visualization of data allows us to bring out the underlying trends and patterns inherent in the data and gain insights that enable faster and smarter decision making.Tableau is one of the fastest growing and industry leading Business Intelligence platforms that empowers business users to easily visualize their data and discover insights at the speed of thought. Tableau is a self-service BI platform designed to make data visualization and analysis as intuitive as possible.Creating visualizations with simple drag-and-drop, you can be up and running on Tableau in no time.Starting from the fundamentals such as getting familiarized with Tableau Desktop, connecting to common data sources and building standard charts; you will walk through the nitty gritty of Tableau such as creating dynamic analytics with parameters, blended data sources, and advanced calculations. You will also learn to group members into higher levels, sort the data in a specific order & filter out the unnecessary information. You will then create calculations in Tableau & understand the flexibility & power they have and go on to building story-boards and share your insights with others.Whether you are just getting started or whether you need a quick reference on a "how-to" question, This book is the perfect companion for youStyle and approachThis cookbook takes a step-by-step approach and the text systematically evolves to cover more involved functionalities. Every recipe includes illustrative screenshots which provide a detailed visual resource for each step.

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Table of Contents

Tableau Cookbook – Recipes for Data Visualization
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
eBooks, discount offers, and more
Why subscribe?
Customer Feedback
Preface
What this book covers
What you need for this book
Who this book is for
Sections
Getting ready
How to do it…
How it works…
There's more…
See also
Conventions
Reader feedback
Customer support
Downloading the example code
Downloading the color images of this book
Errata
Piracy
Questions
1. Keep Calm and Say Hello to Tableau
Introduction
Starting with Tableau Desktop
Getting ready
How to do it...
How it works...
Introduction to My Tableau Repository and connecting to the sample data source
Getting ready
How to do it...
How it works...
Building our first visualization and understanding the Tableau workspace
Getting ready
How to do it...
How it works...
Saving a Tableau workbook
Getting ready
How to do it...
2. Ready to Build Some Charts? Show Me!
Introduction
Building views manually
Getting ready
How to do it…
How it works…
Building views automatically
Getting ready
How to do it…
How it works…
Understanding Show Me!
Getting ready
How to do it…
How it works…
Creating a Text table
Getting ready
How to do it…
How it works…
Creating a Highlight table
Getting ready
How to do it…
How it works…
Creating a Heat map
Getting ready
How to do it…
How it works…
Creating a Bar chart
Getting ready
How to do it…
How it works…
Creating a Stacked Bar chart
How to do it…
How it works…
Creating a Pie chart
Getting ready
How to do it…
How it works…
Creating a Line chart
Getting ready
How to do it…
How it works…
Creating an Area chart
Getting ready
How to do it…
How it works…
Creating a Treemap
Getting ready
How to do it…
How it works…
Creating a Packed Bubble chart
Getting ready
How to do it…
How it works…
Creating a word cloud
Getting ready
How to do it…
How it works…
3. Hungry for More Charts? Dig In!
Introduction
Creating an Individual axes chart
Getting ready
How to do it…
How it works…
Creating a Blended axes chart
Getting ready
How to do it…
How it works…
Creating a Side by Side Bar chart
Getting ready
How to do it…
How it works…
Creating a Dual axes chart
Getting ready
How to do it…
How it works…
Creating a Combination chart
Getting ready
How to do it…
How it works…
Creating a Scatter plot
Getting ready
How to do it…
How it works…
Creating a Box and Whisker plot
Getting ready
How to do it…
How it works…
Creating a Gantt chart
Getting ready
How to do it…
How it works…
Creating Maps
Getting ready
How to do it…
How it works…
Using Background images
Getting ready
How to do it…
How it works…
There's more…
4. Slice and Dice – Grouping, Sorting, and Filtering Data
Introduction
Sorting our data
Getting ready
How to do it…
How it works…
Creating a custom hierarchy
Getting ready
How to do it…
How it works…
Grouping our data
Getting ready
How to do it…
How it works…
Creating bins to bucket our data
Getting ready
How to do it…
How it works…
Creating and using filters
Getting ready
How to do it…
How it works…
Creating and using sets
Getting ready
How to do it…
How it works…
Creating and using context filters
Getting ready
How to do it…
How it works…
5. Adding Flavor – Creating Calculated Fields
Introduction
Understanding how to create and use Calculations
Creating string calculations
Getting ready
How to do it…
How it works…
Creating arithmetic calculations
Getting ready
How to do it…
How it works…
Creating date calculations
Getting ready
How to do it…
How it works…
Creating logic calculations
Getting ready
How to do it…
How it works…
Using sets in calcul...

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