Tableau Cookbook – Recipes for Data Visualization

Author： Shweta Sankhe-Savale

Publisher： Packt Publishing‎

Publication year： 2016

E-ISBN: 9781784392987

P-ISBN(Paperback): 9781784395513

Subject： TN919.5 数据处理系统及设备;TP274 数据处理、数据处理系统;TP39 computer application

Keyword：数据处理、数据处理系统,自动化技术、计算机技术,计算机的应用,数据处理系统及设备

Language： ENG

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Description

Create beautiful data visualizations and interactive dashboards with Tableau About 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 story Who This Book Is For This 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

Chapter

Chapter 1: Keep Calm and Say Hello to Tableau

Introduction

Starting with Tableau Desktop

Introduction to My Tableau Repository and connecting to the sample data source

Building our first visualization and understanding the Tableau workspace

Saving a Tableau workbook

Chapter 2: Ready to Build Some Charts? Show Me!

Introduction

Building views manually

Building views automatically

Understanding Show Me!

Creating a Text table

Creating a Highlight table

Creating a Heat map

Creating a Bar chart

Creating a Stacked Bar chart

Creating a Pie chart

Creating a Line chart

Creating an Area chart

Creating a Treemap

Creating a Packed Bubble chart

Creating a word cloud

Chapter 3: Hungry for More Charts? Dig In!

Introduction

Creating an Individual axes chart

Creating a Blended axes chart

Creating a Side by Side Bar chart

Creating a Dual axes chart

Creating a Combination chart

Creating a Scatter plot

Creating a Box and Whisker plot

Creating a Gantt chart

Creating Maps

Using Background images

Chapter 4: Slice and Dice – Grouping, Sorting, and Filtering Data

Introduction

Sorting our data

Creating a custom hierarchy

Grouping our data

Creating bins to bucket our data

Creating and using filters

Creating and using sets

Creating and using context filters

Chapter 5: Adding Flavor – Creating Calculated Fields

Introduction

Understanding how to create and use Calculations

Creating string calculations

Creating arithmetic calculations

Creating date calculations

Creating logic calculations

Using sets in calculations

Understanding Table Calculations

Understanding Level of Detail (LOD) Calculations

Understanding INCLUDE LOD

Understanding EXCLUDE LOD

Understanding FIXED LOD

Understanding how to create and use Parameters

Chapter 6: Serve It on a Dashboard!

Introduction

Combining multiple visualizations into a dashboard

Using the filter action

Using the highlight action

Using the URL action

Chapter 7: The Right MIX – Blending Multiple Data Sources

Introduction

Understanding Multiple Table Join within a single database

Understanding Multiple Table Join across databases

Understanding Data Blending

Understanding and using Unions

Using Custom SQL Query to fetch data

Working with Tableau Extracts

Chapter 8: Garnish with Reference Lines, Trends, Forecasting, and Clustering

Introduction

Understanding how to create and use trend lines

Understanding and using the forecasting functionality

Understanding and using reference lines – the bullet chart

Understanding how to perform clustering

Chapter 9: Bon Appetit! Tell a Story and Share It with others

Introduction

Understanding and using story points

Saving our work as a packaged workbook

Publishing our work to Tableau Server or Tableau Online

Chapter 10: Formatting in Tableau for Desserts

Introduction

Formatting across our entire workbook

Formatting within a worksheet

Using and formatting labels and annotations

Using and formatting titles and captions

Index

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