Creating Data Stories with Tableau Public: Illustrate your data in a more interactive and interesting way using Tableau Public

Ohmann

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eBook Nov 2015 218 pages 1st Edition

Ohmann

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eBook Nov 2015 218 pages 1st Edition

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Tableau Public is a very useful tool in anyone's data reporting toolbox that allows authors to add an interactive data element to any article. It allows investigative journalists and bloggers to tell a “data story”, allowing others to explore your data visualization. The relative ease of Tableau Public visualization creation allows data stories to be developed rapidly. It allows readers to explore data associations in multiple-sourced public data, and uses state-of-the-art dashboard and chart graphics to immerse the users in an interactive experience. This book offers investigative journalists, bloggers, and other data story tellers a rich discussion of visualization creation topics, features, and functions. This book allows data story tellers to quickly gain confidence in understanding and expanding their visualization-creation knowledge, and allows them to quickly create interesting, interactive data visualizations to bring a richness and vibrancy to complex articles. The book takes you from basic concepts in visualization creation, like connecting to data sources, cleansing data, chart types, common functions, map creation, and publishing to the Web, to more advanced functions. It is a great overview and reference guide for beginner to intermediate Tableau Public data story tellers, and covers creation of Tableau Public visualizations of varying complexities.

Who is this book for?

This book is targeted at investigative journalists and bloggers with an interest in making rich and interactive data visualizations. Intermediate Tableau Public users and organizations can also use this book as a reference guide and teaching aid. Members of the media team, such as data specialists, web developers, editors, producers, and managers can also benefit from an understanding of the structure and challenges of writing an interactive and interesting data visualization using Tableau Public.

What you will learn

Connect to various data sources and understand what data is appropriate for Tableau Public
Understand chart types and when to use specific chart types with different types of data
Join and aggregate data for use in Tableau Public data stories
Discover features of Tableau Public, from basic to advanced
Involve calculations in Tableau Public
Build geographic maps to bring context to data
Create dashboards from one or more separate data visualizations
Create filters and actions to allow greater interactivity to Tableau Public visualizations and dashboards
Publish and embed Tableau visualizations and dashboards in articles

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Alex K. Mar 24, 2017

If you're looking for a simple and practical way to learn how to leverage Tableau Public to tell data-driven stories with rich, interactive visuals that truly engage people and catalyze change, this book delivers. Highly recommended

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Dimitri Shvorob Dec 17, 2015

Wishing to learn Tableau, I downloaded an evaluation copy of Tableau Desktop, viewed about 20 (high-quality and very helpful) videos in the "Tableau Training & Tutorials" section of tableau.com, and finally ordered a batch of Tableau books from Amazon - Amazon.co.uk, in my case - with the intention of reviewing the alternatives and leaving one or two titles for further study.The contenders included:"Tableau Data Visualization Cookbook" by Nandeshwar, Packt, 172 pages, £24 for a new paperback"Creating Data Stories with Tableau Public" by Ohmann and Floyd, Packt, 222 pages, £23"Rapid Graphs with Tableau 8" by McDaniel, Apress, 252 pages, £29"Learning Tableau" by Milligan, Packt, 340 pages, £33"Communicating Data with Tableau" by Jones, O'Reilly, 334 pages, £18"Tableau For Dummies" by Monsey and Sochan, Wiley, 352 pages, £22"Tableau Dashboard Cookbook" by Stirrup, Packt, 336 pages, £29"Tableau 9: Official Guide" by Peck, McGraw-Hill, 352 pages, £24"Tableau Data Visualization Cookbook" was the first book to be eliminated... and then "Creating Data Stories with Tableau Public" followed. I actually like it - although it is undermined by Packt's no-frills presentation (contrast to the colorful non-Packt titles), it is written well, and with just the right amount of hand-holding for a newbie user. However, naturally, Tableau-Public-specific things account for only a small fraction (20 pages?) of its content, the rest being "generic Tableau". In the broader field of Tableau books, this one is not the top choice. Good book, but moving on.

Amazon Customer Dec 04, 2015

First! :) I have always enjoyed the books that Matt Floyd has been involved in, and as a fellow Matt, I believe it is important to support all of the Matts of the world.

E_D Aug 13, 2016

This book could use some updating. I had difficulty finding the data sets used in the book. Also, it would've been nice to include a brief overview of how to add images to dashboards. Overall, this is a good resource for Tableau Public users.

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