Tableau 10 Business Intelligence Cookbook
eBook - ePub

Tableau 10 Business Intelligence Cookbook

  1. 476 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Tableau 10 Business Intelligence Cookbook

About this book

Create powerful, effective visualizations to help analyze your data with Tableau 10 by your sideAbout This Book• Cook your favorite Tableau 10 business intelligence recipe with the help of this easy-to-follow book • Build beautiful, interactive dashboards and visualizations in Tableau 10 that help you make informed decisions• This rich collection of independent recipes cover everything needed to become an advanced Tableau user and get an edge over other Tableau usersWho This Book Is ForThis book is targeted to business, data, and analytics professionals who want to build rich interactive visualizations using Tableau. Familiarity with previous versions of Tableau would be helpful, but is not necessary.What You Will Learn• Become familiar with the Tableau interface• Build basic to more advanced charts with step-by-step recipes • Use filters, calculated fields, parameters, and actions to add interactivity to charts and dashboards • Prepare and transform data for analysis using Tableau's built-in tools and functions• Create effective and compelling dashboards and story points• Leverage Tableau's mapping capabilities to visualize location and shape data• Integrate analytics and forecasting to enhance data analysis• Get to know tips and tricks to work more quickly and effectively in Tableau• Increase your confidence and competence in creating rich, interactive visualizations in TableauIn DetailTableau is a software tool that can speed up data analysis through its rich visualization capabilities, and help uncover insights for better and smarter decision making. This book is for the business, technology, data and analytics professionals who use and analyze data and data-driven approaches to support business operations and strategic initiatives in their organizations.This book provides easy-to-follow recipes to get the reader up and running with Tableau 10, and covers basic to advanced use cases and scenarios. The book starts with building basic charts in Tableau and moves on to building more complex charts by incorporating different Tableau features and interactivity components. There is an entire chapter dedicated to dashboard techniques and best practices. A number of recipes specifically for geospatial visualization, analytics, and data preparation are also covered.By the end of this book, you'll have gained confidence and competence to analyze and communicate data and insights more efficiently and effectively by creating compelling interactive charts, dashboards, and stories in Tableau.Style and approachThis book is a collection of independent recipes that cover a wide range of options for data visualization on offer with Tableau. With the help of the recipes in this book, you can explore Tableau and pick the business intelligence solution that's best suited for your needs.

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Tableau 10 Business Intelligence Cookbook


Table of Contents

Tableau 10 Business Intelligence Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgements
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
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Why Subscribe?
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 workbook starters
Errata
Piracy
Questions
1. Basic Charts
Introduction
Creating a bar chart
Getting ready
How to do it...
How it works...
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Creating a stacked bar chart
Getting ready
How to do it...
How it works...
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Creating a line chart
Getting ready
How to do it...
How it works...
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Creating a scatter plot
Getting ready
How to do it...
How it works...
Creating a heat map
Getting ready
How to do it...
How it works...
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Creating a text table (crosstab)
Getting ready
How to do it...
How it works...
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Creating a highlight table
Getting ready
How to do it...
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Creating an area chart
Getting ready
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How it works...
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Creating a pie chart
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Creating a bubble chart
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Creating a word cloud
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Creating a tree map
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2. Advanced Charts
Introduction
Creating a histogram
Getting ready
How to do it...
How it works...
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Creating a small multiple chart
Getting ready
How to do it...
How it works...
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Creating a shared axis chart
Getting ready
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How it works...
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Creating a combo chart (dual axis chart)
Getting ready
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How it works...
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Creating a bullet chart
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How to do it...
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Creating a bar in bar chart
Getting ready
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How it works...
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Creating a donut chart
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How to do it...
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Creating a unit chart
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Creating a box and whisker chart
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Creating a sparkline with indicators
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Creating a KPI text table
Getting ready
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Creating a waterfall chart
Getting ready
How to do it...
How it works...
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Creating a population pyramid
Getting ready
How to do it...
How it works...
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3. Interactivity
Introduction
Creating a motion chart
Getting ready
How to...

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