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Learning Tableau 2019

You're reading from   Learning Tableau 2019 Tools for Business Intelligence, data prep, and visual analytics

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Product type Paperback
Published in Mar 2019
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788839525
Length 504 pages
Edition 3rd Edition
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Joshua N. Milligan Joshua N. Milligan
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Table of Contents (18) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Section 1: Tableau Foundations FREE CHAPTER
2. Taking Off with Tableau 3. Working with Data in Tableau 4. Venturing on to Advanced Visualizations 5. Section 2: Leveraging the Full Power of Tableau
6. Starting an Adventure with Calculations 7. Diving Deep with Table Calculations 8. Making Visualizations That Look Great and Work Well 9. Telling a Data Story with Dashboards 10. Digging Deeper - Trends, Clustering, Distributions, and Forecasting 11. Section 3: Data Prep and Structuring
12. Cleaning and Structuring Messy Data 13. Introducing Tableau Prep 14. Section 4: Advanced Techniques and Sharing with Others
15. Advanced Visualizations, Techniques, Tips, and Tricks 16. Sharing Your Data Story 17. Other Books You May Enjoy

Trends

World Population.xlsx is included in the Chapter 08 directory. It contains one record for each country for each year from 1960 to 2015, measuring population. Using this dataset, let's take a look at the historical trends of various countries. Create a view similar to the one shown in the following screenshot, which shows the change in population over time for Afghanistan and Australia. You'll notice that Country Name has been filtered to include only Afghanistan and Australia and the field has additionally been added to the Color and Label shelves:

From this visualization alone, you can make several interesting observations. The growth of the two countries' populations was fairly similar up to 1980. At that point, the population of Afghanistan went into decline until 1988 when the population of Afghanistan started to increase. At some point around 1996...

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