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Getting Started with Tableau 2018.x

You're reading from   Getting Started with Tableau 2018.x Get up and running with the new features of Tableau 2018 for impactful data visualization

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788838689
Length 396 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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David Pires David Pires
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Tristan Guillevin Tristan Guillevin
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Table of Contents (16) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Catching Up with Tableau 2018 2. The Tableau Core FREE CHAPTER 3. A First Dashboard and Exploration 4. Connect to Data and Simple Transformations 5. Build an Efficient Data Source 6. Design Insightful Visualizations - Part 1 7. Design Insightful Visualizations - Part 2 8. Create Powerful Dashboards and Stories 9. Publish and Interact in Tableau Server 10. An Introduction to Calculations 11. Analytics and Parameters 12. Advanced Data Connections 13. Deal with Security 14. How to Keep Growing Your Skills 15. Other Books You May Enjoy

Join data easily

A Join creates a single Data Source with columns coming from two (or more) tables. How do Joins work? How can you create them? Are there risks? You'll learn everything in this section.

The Join principle

So far, we've only used one table. A Join is automatically created when using two or more tables. There is always a left table and a right table. In the following screenshot, you see a Join between Orders (the left table), and People (the right table):

The result of a Join is a Data Source that contains the columns from the different tables. As highlighted in the screenshot, you can see that the Profit column comes from the Orders table, and...

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