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What is the delivery time and cost of print book?

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Economy: Delivery to most addresses in the U.K. within 7-9 business days.
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Economy: Can deliver to P. O. Boxes and private residences.
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Delivery time ranges from 7-9 business days for VIC and 8-10 business days for Interstate metro
Delivery time is up to 15 business days for remote areas of WA, NT & QLD.

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Premium: Countries in the American continent: Trackable delivery to most countries within 4-7 business days

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Disclaimer:
All orders received before 5 PM U.K time would start printing from the next business day. So the estimated delivery times start from the next day as well. Orders received after 5 PM U.K time (in our internal systems) on a business day or anytime on the weekend will begin printing the second to next business day. For example, an order placed at 11 AM today will begin printing tomorrow, whereas an order placed at 9 PM tonight will begin printing the day after tomorrow.

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What is custom duty/charge?

Customs duty are charges levied on goods when they cross international borders. It is a tax that is imposed on imported goods. These duties are charged by special authorities and bodies created by local governments and are meant to protect local industries, economies, and businesses.

Do I have to pay customs charges for the print book order?

The orders shipped to the countries that are listed under EU27 will not bear custom charges. They are paid by Packt as part of the order.

List of EU27 countries: www.gov.uk/eu-eea:

A custom duty or localized taxes may be applicable on the shipment and would be charged by the recipient country outside of the EU27 which should be paid by the customer and these duties are not included in the shipping charges been charged on the order.

How do I know my custom duty charges?

The amount of duty payable varies greatly depending on the imported goods, the country of origin and several other factors like the total invoice amount or dimensions like weight, and other such criteria applicable in your country.

For example:

If you live in Mexico, and the declared value of your ordered items is over $ 50, for you to receive a package, you will have to pay additional import tax of 19% which will be $ 9.50 to the courier service.
Whereas if you live in Turkey, and the declared value of your ordered items is over € 22, for you to receive a package, you will have to pay additional import tax of 18% which will be € 3.96 to the courier service.

How can I cancel my order?

Cancellation Policy for Published Printed Books:

You can cancel any order within 1 hour of placing the order. Simply contact customercare@packt.com with your order details or payment transaction id. If your order has already started the shipment process, we will do our best to stop it. However, if it is already on the way to you then when you receive it, you can contact us at customercare@packt.com using the returns and refund process.

Please understand that Packt Publishing cannot provide refunds or cancel any order except for the cases described in our Return Policy (i.e. Packt Publishing agrees to replace your printed book because it arrives damaged or material defect in book), Packt Publishing will not accept returns.

What is your returns and refunds policy?

Return Policy:

We want you to be happy with your purchase from Packtpub.com. We will not hassle you with returning print books to us. If the print book you receive from us is incorrect, damaged, doesn't work or is unacceptably late, please contact Customer Relations Team on customercare@packt.com with the order number and issue details as explained below:

If you ordered (eBook, Video or Print Book) incorrectly or accidentally, please contact Customer Relations Team on customercare@packt.com within one hour of placing the order and we will replace/refund you the item cost.
Sadly, if your eBook or Video file is faulty or a fault occurs during the eBook or Video being made available to you, i.e. during download then you should contact Customer Relations Team within 14 days of purchase on customercare@packt.com who will be able to resolve this issue for you.
You will have a choice of replacement or refund of the problem items.(damaged, defective or incorrect)
Once Customer Care Team confirms that you will be refunded, you should receive the refund within 10 to 12 working days.
If you are only requesting a refund of one book from a multiple order, then we will refund you the appropriate single item.
Where the items were shipped under a free shipping offer, there will be no shipping costs to refund.

On the off chance your printed book arrives damaged, with book material defect, contact our Customer Relation Team on customercare@packt.com within 14 days of receipt of the book with appropriate evidence of damage and we will work with you to secure a replacement copy, if necessary. Please note that each printed book you order from us is individually made by Packt's professional book-printing partner which is on a print-on-demand basis.

What tax is charged?

Currently, no tax is charged on the purchase of any print book (subject to change based on the laws and regulations). A localized VAT fee is charged only to our European and UK customers on eBooks, Video and subscriptions that they buy. GST is charged to Indian customers for eBooks and video purchases.

What payment methods can I use?

You can pay with the following card types:

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What is the delivery time and cost of print books?

Shipping Details

USA:

Economy: Delivery to most addresses in the US within 10-15 business days

Premium: Trackable Delivery to most addresses in the US within 3-8 business days

UK:

Economy: Delivery to most addresses in the U.K. within 7-9 business days.
Shipments are not trackable

Premium: Trackable delivery to most addresses in the U.K. within 3-4 business days!
Add one extra business day for deliveries to Northern Ireland and Scottish Highlands and islands

EU:

Premium: Trackable delivery to most EU destinations within 4-9 business days.

Australia:

India:

Premium: Delivery to most Indian addresses within 5-6 business days

Rest of the World:

Premium: Countries in the American continent: Trackable delivery to most countries within 4-7 business days

Asia:

Premium: Delivery to most Asian addresses within 5-9 business days

Unfortunately, due to several restrictions, we are unable to ship to the following countries:

Afghanistan
American Samoa
Belarus
Brunei Darussalam
Central African Republic
The Democratic Republic of Congo
Eritrea
Guinea-bissau
Iran
Lebanon
Libiya Arab Jamahriya
Somalia
Sudan
Russian Federation
Syrian Arab Republic
Ukraine
Venezuela

Ken Mar 31, 2019

Tableau is complex. Basics are pretty easy, but when you want to do something really interesting, like regression analysis, it's hard. The examples in the book are accessible, clear, and short. You won't find a deep interpretation of the recipes here, but for most of them, you don't need that. Particularly helpful were the examples integrating R and showing advanced visualizations. Overall, a solid and worthwhile book. Nice job!

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Upendra Singh Jul 21, 2019

Good book with enough examples and explanations.

Michelle Davis Mar 30, 2019

Wonderful and handy to have

Leon Kowalski Feb 20, 2020

This book, from PACKT, appears to be a professional handbook on the advanced application of Tableau. At 670 pages, and over £28.00 for the Kindle edition, one might expect an authoritative publication on Tableau. There are downloadable files to create all the examples and everything is presented in a logical manner.I have returned this book and gained a full refund as it was liberally padded with blank pages, provided only rudimentary examples on barely filled pages and was vastly inferior to the free and fully transcribed official tableau website video training.As a result of this purchase experience, and that of searching for authoritative, up to date, books about Tableau on Amazon, I have put in place several rules before considering to buy.1. Does the book allow 'Look inside'? If not, I'm not going to look into the book any further. To date, I have returned all technical references that I have bought that did not support 'Look Inside' as they have proved to be nothing more than cynical or basic guides for beginners.2. Was the book published or revised within the last year? Tableau release about 3 to 4 times a year. What is a credible solution a year ago, may well be a workaround for a new feature today; Dynamic parameters and buffering calculations for creating proximity analysis are cases in point for release 2020.1.With the price of kindle offering almost that of print, I'm not prepared to pay £20-30 a time on books that have no more than 2 years of usable life.3. Is the author known for their success at Tableau application. Whilst not an indication of quality contents in itself, when considered with the first two points, I find that this will help determine if buy the book or not.I have found that established industry specialists with a genuinely high reputation and high profile lecture acumen do write books that deliver on their promise; the O'Reilly range with Ray Sleeper (Practical Tableau 2018) is a good example.BOOK CONTENT AND USEFULNESS-----------------------------------------In practice, this book is very sparsely written and contains so many blank pages that I felt it had been deliberately ‘padded’ to appear more than it was. Due to the similarity in content, I felt that the book was, at best, a version of notes for the freely available official Tableau online training which I completed before looking for books on the advanced application of Tableau.Unlike the website, this book will not train the novice user in BI or Tableau best practice as the user merely repeats the steps presented. Also, this book is already dated where the website is constantly updated with the latest techniques for the latest release.As a BI consultant & developer, I am expected to deliver highly specialised analytical models and dashboards using the client preferred software solution. In preparation for my new project, I first reviewed the entire FREE training offered by the tableau website.QUALIFICATIONS--------------------If formal tableau qualification were required, and as a demonstration of the high level of quality available for free, it is my opinion that the website provides everything a user could need to prepare and qualify in two of the three recognised Tableau standards: Specialist ($100.00 exam) and Associate ($250.00 exam). The third standard is that of professional ($600.00 exam for 3-year certificate) which would require experience and time to achieve where the first two standards could be achieved in a week of dedicated study.TOPICS---------The book and website cover almost similar topics. However, the website is far more complete and fully covers the following:1. Tableau Prep builder2. Tableau Conductor3. Tableau Desktop (Calculations, maps, groups, sets, formatting, dashboard design, etc).4. Tableau Online5. Tableau Server & Online Deployment6. Tableau AdministrationUnlike the book, the website achieves its aim with over 11 hours of ‘how-to’ video, all fully transcribed and supported with a complete suite of the required example datasets and over 90 BI models for working along with plus over 70 finished working examples to verify your solutions against.REFUND REQUEST-----------------------After only 20 mins of reading, I requested a refund for my kindle purchase which Amazon carried out immediately. on the basis of this book, I will be cautious about purchasing any future PACKT offerings.Tableau is a great package with a rich and diverse community. I have since discovered all that I was looking for in youtube videos and forums, such as:1. Map analysis using distance.2. Creation of a product catalog with product to page and including associated images.3. TabPy - application of Python with Tableau4. Complex calculations for driving dynamic user interactive selections for comparison analysis.

Amazon Customer Sep 23, 2019

The content is good but the quality of paper and print is not. I have ebook and wanted hard copy so I didn’t have to go back and forth to practice exercises. Ebook is color and although hard copy is $50 it is black and white. I do not think it is worth the price

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