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Mastering Tableau

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

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Product type Paperback
Published in Dec 2016
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781784397692
Length 476 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Jen Stirrup Jen Stirrup
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David Baldwin David Baldwin
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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

Tableau Server web authoring environment

Web authoring is a Tableau Server feature introduced in 8.0 that provides an interface for authoring that is similar to Tableau Desktop. Originally, the web authoring interface was quite limited but more features are introduced with each version. Thus the capability gap between the Tableau Server web authoring environment and Tableau Desktop have shrunk. To mention a couple of examples of continuing improvements, in Tableau 10 the web authoring environment provides robust capabilities for creating and applying table calculations and also provides capabilities for creating dashboards, though the dashboard functionality is still fairly rudimentary. At the time of writing, some features are still missing altogether in the Tableau Server web authoring environment. For instance there is no interface for creating parameters or for connecting to data sources that have not already been published to Tableau Server. A fairly detailed comparison of the Tableau...

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