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Getting Started with Tableau 2019.2

You're reading from   Getting Started with Tableau 2019.2 Effective data visualization and business intelligence with the new features of Tableau 2019.2

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2019
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781838553067
Length 260 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Tristan Guillevin Tristan Guillevin
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Preface 1. Catching Up with Tableau 2019 FREE CHAPTER 2. The Tableau Core 3. Getting Started with Tableau Desktop 4. Connecting to Data and Simple Transformations 5. Building an Efficient Data Source 6. Design Insightful Visualizations 7. Powerful Dashboards, Stories, and Actions 8. Publishing and Interacting in Tableau Server 9. An Introduction to Calculations 10. Analytics and Parameters 11. Advanced Data Connections 12. Dealing with Security 13. How to Keep Growing Your Skills A. Other Books You May Enjoy Index

Speaking Tableau

Rather than a big list of all the terms, let's go through the basic Tableau life cycle.

When you open Tableau Desktop, you start working on a Workbook. After you've finished working, you will save your work in a .twb or .twbx file. You can open multiple instances of Tableau, each of them being a different Workbook.

The first page you see when you open Tableau Desktop is the Start page. Here, you can connect to data, open recent workbooks, discover the Viz of the Week, and open your saved data sources quickly.

After choosing your connector (a Comma Separated Values (CSV) file, an Excel file, or a database on a server), Tableau opens the data source workplace. On this page, you create the data source by choosing tables (or sheets) and creating joins, unions, or other transformations. The following screenshot illustrates the Data Source workplace:

When you're done with the Data Source, you can start building a visualization in a Worksheet. Sheet 1 is your first...

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