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Learning Tableau 10

You're reading from   Learning Tableau 10 Business Intelligence and data visualization that brings your business into focus

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2016
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781786466358
Length 432 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Joshua N. Milligan Joshua N. Milligan
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Preface 1. Creating Your First Visualizations and Dashboard FREE CHAPTER 2. Working with Data in Tableau 3. Moving from Foundational to More Advanced Visualizations 4. Using Row-Level, Aggregate, and Level of Detail Calculations 5. Table Calculations 6. Formatting a Visualization to Look Great and Work Well 7. Telling a Data Story with Dashboards 8. Deeper Analysis – Trends, Clustering, Distributions, and Forecasting 9. Making Data Work for You 10. Advanced Visualizations, Techniques, Tips, and Tricks 11. Sharing Your Data Story

Chapter 2. Working with Data in Tableau

Tableau offers us the ability to connect to nearly any data source. It does so using a unique paradigm that allows it to leverage the power and efficiency of existing database engines with an option to extract data locally. This chapter focuses on the foundational concepts of how Tableau works with data; we will also cover the following topics:

  • The Tableau paradigm
  • Connecting to data
  • Managing data source metadata
  • Working with extracts instead of live connections
  • Tableau file types
  • Joins and blends
  • Filtering data
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