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Learning Tableau 2019

You're reading from   Learning Tableau 2019 Tools for Business Intelligence, data prep, and visual analytics

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Product type Paperback
Published in Mar 2019
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788839525
Length 504 pages
Edition 3rd Edition
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Joshua N. Milligan Joshua N. Milligan
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Table of Contents (18) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Section 1: Tableau Foundations FREE CHAPTER
2. Taking Off with Tableau 3. Working with Data in Tableau 4. Venturing on to Advanced Visualizations 5. Section 2: Leveraging the Full Power of Tableau
6. Starting an Adventure with Calculations 7. Diving Deep with Table Calculations 8. Making Visualizations That Look Great and Work Well 9. Telling a Data Story with Dashboards 10. Digging Deeper - Trends, Clustering, Distributions, and Forecasting 11. Section 3: Data Prep and Structuring
12. Cleaning and Structuring Messy Data 13. Introducing Tableau Prep 14. Section 4: Advanced Techniques and Sharing with Others
15. Advanced Visualizations, Techniques, Tips, and Tricks 16. Sharing Your Data Story 17. Other Books You May Enjoy

Working with Data in Tableau

Tableau offers 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 essential concepts of how Tableau works with data, including the following topics:

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