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Mastering Tableau

You're reading from Mastering Tableau Smart Business Intelligence techniques to get maximum insights from your data

Product type Paperback

Published in Dec 2016

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781784397692

Length 476 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

R

Tools

Tableau

Concepts

Business Intelligence

Authors (2):

Jen Stirrup

David Baldwin

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Table of Contents (14) Chapters

Preface

1. Getting Up to Speed – a Review of the Basics FREE CHAPTER

2. All about Data – Getting Your Data Ready

3. All about Data – Joins, Blends, and Data Structures

4. All about Data – Data Densification, Cubes, and Big Data

5. Table Calculations

6. Level of Detail Calculations

7. Beyond the Basic Chart Types

8. Mapping

9. Tableau for Presentations

10. Visualization Best Practices and Dashboard Design

11. Improving Performance

12. Interacting with Tableau Server

13. R Integration

Architecture, installation, and integration

In order to adequately understand how Tableau and R work together, it's important to grasp the big picture. To facilitate that understanding, we'll cover high-level concepts and information in this section before delving into calculated fields and R scripting details.

Architecture

The basic Tableau-to-R architecture is quite simple. Tableau pushes data to Rserve and then retrieves the results. Naturally, whether you are viewing a workbook on Tableau Desktop or via Tableau Server, if you wish to run R calculations, then Rserve must be accessible:

Architecture

For a proper understanding of the R architecture, let's also look at the Tableau/R workflow. Terms used in the following diagram with which you may be unfamiliar will be discussed in this chapter:

Architecture

Installation

Installing R is typically not difficult, but it does involve more than simply double-clicking on an executable. In order to successfully connect Tableau with R, you will need to make...

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Authors (2)

Jen Stirrup

Jen Stirrup

Jen Stirrup is a data strategist and technologist, a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP), and a Microsoft Regional Director, a tech community advocate, a public speaker and blogger, a published author, and a keynote speaker. Jen is the founder of a boutique consultancy based in the UK, Data Relish, which focuses on delivering successful business intelligence and artificial intelligence solutions that add real value to customers worldwide. She has featured on the BBC as a guest expert on topics relating to data.

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Baldwin

Baldwin

David Baldwin has been providing consulting in the business intelligence sector for 22 years. His experience includes Tableau training and consulting, developing BI solutions, project management, technical writing, and web and graphic design. His vertical experience includes financial, healthcare, human resources, aerospace, energy, education, government, and entertainment industries.

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