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Learning Tableau 2020 - Fourth Edition

You're reading from Learning Tableau 2020 - Fourth Edition

Product type Book

Published in Aug 2020

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781800200364

Pages 576 pages

Edition 4th Edition

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Business Intelligence

Author (1):

Joshua N. Milligan

Table of Contents (19) Chapters

Preface

1. Taking Off with Tableau

2. Connecting to Data in Tableau

3. Moving Beyond Basic Visualizations

4. Starting an Adventure with Calculations and Parameters

5. Leveraging Level of Detail Calculations

6. Diving Deep with Table Calculations

7. Making Visualizations That Look Great and Work Well

8. Telling a Data Story with Dashboards

9. Visual Analytics – Trends, Clustering, Distributions, and Forecasting

10. Advanced Visualizations

11. Dynamic Dashboards

12. Exploring Mapping and Advanced Geospatial Features

13. Understanding the Tableau Data Model, Joins, and Blends

14. Structuring Messy Data to Work Well in Tableau

15. Taming Data with Tableau Prep

16. Sharing Your Data Story

17. Other Books You May Enjoy

18. Index

Connecting to data

Tableau connects to data stored in a wide variety of files and databases. This includes flat files, such as Excel documents, spatial files, and text files; relational databases, such as SQL Server and Oracle; cloud-based data sources, such as Snowflake and Amazon Redshift; and Online Analytical Processing (OLAP) data sources, such as Microsoft SQL Server Analysis Services. With very few exceptions, the process of analysis and creating visualizations will be the same, no matter what data source you use.

We'll cover data connections and related topics more extensively throughout the book. For example, we'll cover the following:

Connecting to a wide variety of different types of data sources in Chapter 2, Connecting to Data in Tableau.
Using joins, blends, and object model connections in Chapter 13, Understanding the Tableau Data Models, Joins, and Blends.
Understanding the data structures that work well and how to deal with...

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Authors (1)

Joshua N. Milligan

Joshua N. Milligan is a Hall of Fame Tableau Zen Master and 2017 Iron Viz Global finalist. His passion is training, mentoring, and helping people gain insights and make decisions based on their data through data visualization using Tableau and data cleaning and structuring using Tableau Prep. He is a principal consultant at Teknion Data Solutions, where he has served clients in numerous industries since 2004.

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