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Mastering Tableau

You're reading from   Mastering Tableau Smart Business Intelligence techniques to get maximum insights from your data

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Product type Paperback
Published in Dec 2016
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781784397692
Length 476 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Jen Stirrup Jen Stirrup
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David Baldwin David Baldwin
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Preface 1. Getting Up to Speed – a Review of the Basics FREE CHAPTER 2. All about Data – Getting Your Data Ready 3. All about Data – Joins, Blends, and Data Structures 4. All about Data – Data Densification, Cubes, and Big Data 5. Table Calculations 6. Level of Detail Calculations 7. Beyond the Basic Chart Types 8. Mapping 9. Tableau for Presentations 10. Visualization Best Practices and Dashboard Design 11. Improving Performance 12. Interacting with Tableau Server 13. R Integration

Animating Tableau

Including animation in a presentation can be very effective for engaging the audience. Hans Rosling accomplishes this admirably with his popular YouTube video 200 Countries, 200 Years, 4 Minutes. In this video, Rosling uses data visualization to track wealth and life expectancy over time. His combination of data visualization with insightful commentary and a passion for his message makes Rosling's video a must-see for anyone interested in making appealing presentations using data.

Animation is easy to implement in Tableau but has a curious shortcoming. It is available via Tableau Reader but not Tableau Server. A worksheet with animation that is uploaded to Tableau Server will provide the end user with an option to click through each frame of the animation or access any given frame via a dropdown, but there is no option to play from beginning to end. With HTML5, a play option would probably not be difficult for Tableau developers to implement. So why hasn't this...

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