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Tableau 10 Complete Reference

You're reading from   Tableau 10 Complete Reference Transform your business with rich data visualizations and interactive dashboards with Tableau 10

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Product type Course
Published in Dec 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789957082
Length 496 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Joshua N. Milligan Joshua N. Milligan
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Tristan Guillevin Tristan Guillevin
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Table of Contents (20) Chapters Close

Title Page
About Packt
Contributors
Preface
1. Creating Your First Visualizations and Dashboard 2. Working with Data in Tableau FREE CHAPTER 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 12. Catching Up with Tableau 2018 13. Deal with Security 14. How to Keep Growing Your Skills 1. Other Books You May Enjoy Index

Stories


The stories feature allows you to tell a story using interactive snapshots of dashboards and views. The snapshots become points in a story. This allows you to construct a guided narrative or even an entire presentation.

Let's consider an example in whichstory points might be useful. Executive managers are pleased with the regional scorecard dashboard you developed above. Now, they want you to make a presentation to the board and highlight some specific issues for the South region. With minimal effort, you can take your simple scorecard, add a few additional views, and tell an entire story:

  1. First we'll build a couple of additional views. Create a simple geographic view named Profit Ratio KPI by State. Make this a filled map with the AGG (KPI - Profit Ratio) field defining the color.
  2. Add Profit Ratio to the Detail of the Marks card so it is available for later use:
  1. Create one additional view named Profit Ratio by Quarter. Use Order Date as a continuous date value on Columns and Profit...
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