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Mastering Tableau 2019.1

You're reading from   Mastering Tableau 2019.1 An expert guide to implementing advanced business intelligence and analytics with Tableau 2019.1

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Product type Paperback
Published in Feb 2019
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ISBN-13 9781789533880
Length 558 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Marleen Meier Marleen Meier
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Table of Contents (20) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Section 1: Tableau Concepts, Basics FREE CHAPTER
2. Getting Up to Speed - A Review of the Basics 3. All About Data - Getting Your Data Ready 4. Tableau Prep 5. All About Data - Joins, Blends, and Data Structures 6. All About Data - Data Densification, Cubes, and Big Data 7. Table Calculations 8. Level of Detail Calculations 9. Section 2: Advanced Calculations, Mapping, Visualizations
10. Beyond the Basic Chart Types 11. Mapping 12. Tableau for Presentations 13. Visualization Best Practices and Dashboard Design 14. Advanced Analytics 15. Improving Performance 16. Section 3: Connecting Tableau to R, Python, and Matlab
17. Interacting with Tableau Server 18. Programming Tool Integration 19. Other Books You May Enjoy

All About Data - Data Densification, Cubes, and Big Data

Many questions that Tableau newbies have are neither related to Data Preparation, joins, unions, Data Blending, or data structures, and those are questions as follows:

  • I just created a table calculation and observe that the view displays numbers that don't exist in the underlying data. Why?
  • We use SAP BW in my organization. What should I know about how Tableau works with cubes?
  • Can you tell me how Tableau works with big data?

This chapter will continue the data discussion from the previous chapters by addressing the topics these three preceding questions target, respectively:

  • Data densification
  • Working with cubes
  • Tableau and big data

There are a few people who have worked diligently to provide resources that were very helpful while writing this chapter. Joe Mako has championed data densification – be sure...

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