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Tableau 2019.x Cookbook

You're reading from   Tableau 2019.x Cookbook Over 115 recipes to build end-to-end analytical solutions using Tableau

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jan 2019
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789533385
Length 670 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Tania Lincoln Tania Lincoln
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Slaven Bogdanovic Slaven Bogdanovic
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Table of Contents (18) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Getting Started with Tableau Software 2. Data Manipulation FREE CHAPTER 3. Tableau Extracts 4. Tableau Desktop Advanced Calculations 5. Tableau Desktop Advanced Filtering 6. Building Dashboards 7. Telling a Story with Tableau 8. Tableau Visualization 9. Tableau Advanced Visualization 10. Tableau for Big Data 11. Forecasting with Tableau 12. Advanced Analytics with Tableau 13. Deploy Tableau Server 14. Tableau Troubleshooting 15. Preparing Data for Analysis with Tableau Prep 16. ETL Best Practices for Tableau 17. Other Books You May Enjoy

Setting the narrative of the Story

To present an effective Story, you need to discover it in your data first. This sounds demanding, but actually it's not. If you have data to analyze, you also have a Story to tell. We don't have to be talented novelists to write a good Story. However, we can borrow some tips from them. First, let’s take a look at what every Story contains. In every Story, we can find the following elements:

  • Introduction: In the introduction, we need to describe the setup of the situation and introduce the main characters. For example, in business, the situation often denotes the market context, while characters are brands that we are interested in.
  • Conflict: The conflict phase is where we present the main problem. In this phase, we are usually faced with dilemmas where we need to choose the direction of the following steps in the analysis....
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