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You're reading from Getting Started with Tableau 2018.x Get up and running with the new features of Tableau 2018 for impactful data visualization

Product type Paperback

Published in Sep 2018

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781788838689

Length 396 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

Tableau

Concepts

Business Intelligence

Authors (2):

David Pires

Tristan Guillevin

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Table of Contents (16) Chapters

Preface

1. Catching Up with Tableau 2018

2. The Tableau Core FREE CHAPTER

3. A First Dashboard and Exploration

4. Connect to Data and Simple Transformations

5. Build an Efficient Data Source

6. Design Insightful Visualizations - Part 1

7. Design Insightful Visualizations - Part 2

8. Create Powerful Dashboards and Stories

9. Publish and Interact in Tableau Server

10. An Introduction to Calculations

11. Analytics and Parameters

12. Advanced Data Connections

13. Deal with Security

14. How to Keep Growing Your Skills

15. Other Books You May Enjoy

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Refresh a Data Source and deal with changes

Data lives and changes. Any analysis tool, such as Tableau, needs to allow users to refresh data and deal with changes as easily as possible.

In this section, we won't talk about the published Data Source on Tableau Server. The way to refresh or modifying a published Data Source is different and explained in Chapter 9, Publish and Interact in Tableau Server.

The following section describes how to refresh a Data Source.

How to refresh a Data Source

Refreshing a Data Source is simple for both Live and Extract Data Sources.

For a Live connection, right-click on the Data Source and click on Refresh. That's it.

For an Extract, clicking...

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Authors (2)

Pires

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Guillevin

Tristan Guillevin is a Business Analyst at Ogury. In 2017, he won the Iron Viz - the ultimate data visualization battle, organized by Tableau every year in Las Vegas. His passion for data visualization and for Tableau has taken him around the world. He enjoys helping people with Tableau by making webinars, conferences, and writing blog articles.

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