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Tableau 2019.x Cookbook

You're reading from Tableau 2019.x Cookbook

Product type Book

Published in Jan 2019

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781789533385

Pages 670 pages

Edition 1st Edition

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Business Intelligence

Authors (5):

Dmitry Anoshin

Teodora Matic

Slaven Bogdanovic

Tania Lincoln

Dmitrii Shirokov

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Table of Contents (18) Chapters

Preface

1. Getting Started with Tableau Software

2. Data Manipulation

3. Tableau Extracts

4. Tableau Desktop Advanced Calculations

5. Tableau Desktop Advanced Filtering

6. Building Dashboards

7. Telling a Story with Tableau

8. Tableau Visualization

9. Tableau Advanced Visualization

10. Tableau for Big Data

11. Forecasting with Tableau

12. Advanced Analytics with Tableau

13. Deploy Tableau Server

14. Tableau Troubleshooting

15. Preparing Data for Analysis with Tableau Prep

16. ETL Best Practices for Tableau

17. Other Books You May Enjoy

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Bump chart

We will use the bump chart to compare two dimensions against each other using a single value of measurement. They are great for examining rank changes.

Getting ready

For the bump chart recipe, we will use a line chart with the rank table calculation.

How to do it...

In this example, we are ranking the teams of the South American Soccer Confederation. Use the Bump Chart.twbx workbook to follow along:

Since we want to color our visualization lines by country, put Country Full on Color, as follows:

Add Rank Date and Rank to the Columns and Rows shelves. Set...

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Authors (5)

Dmitry Anoshin

Dmitry Anoshin is a data-centric technologist and a recognized expert in building and implementing big data and analytics solutions. He has a successful track record when it comes to implementing business and digital intelligence projects in numerous industries, including retail, finance, marketing, and e-commerce. Dmitry possesses in-depth knowledge of digital/business intelligence, ETL, data warehousing, and big data technologies. He has extensive experience in the data integration process and is proficient in using various data warehousing methodologies. Dmitry has constantly exceeded project expectations when he has worked in the financial, machine tool, and retail industries. He has completed a number of multinational full BI/DI solution life cycle implementation projects. With expertise in data modeling, Dmitry also has a background and business experience in multiple relation databases, OLAP systems, and NoSQL databases. He is also an active speaker at data conferences and helps people to adopt cloud analytics.

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Teodora Matic

Teodora Matic is a data analyst with a strong background in statistics and more than 5 years of experience in data analytics and reporting. She has been using Tableau since 2014. She has been working as a project manager and data analyst for leading market research companies, such as Ipsos and EyeSee Research, levering the power of Tableau to bring business insights to clients. She currently does data analysis and reporting at the International Committee of the Red Cross.

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Slaven Bogdanovic

Slaven Bogdanovic has more than 10 years of experience in data analysis and reporting within both business and academic field. His expertise covers complex statistical analysis and insight communication. He has been using Tableau since 2013. Currently, he works as a BI/big data developer at NCR Corporation. Previously, he was a senior research executive at Ipsos. Also, Slaven is a PhD candidate and a member of the Laboratory for Research of Individual Differences at the University of Belgrade. In addition, Slaven is the author of six articles published in academic and professional journals.

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Tania Lincoln

Tania Lincoln has over 12 years of development experience in BI and data analytics domain. She has a strong SQL, visualization, and analytics skill set, and has demonstrated the ability to mentor others on new technologies and process improvements. She is also experienced in taking a product from inception to launch and managing post-launch growth.

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Dmitrii Shirokov

Dmitrii Shirokov has over 11 years of design and development of data-driven solutions. He has been using Tableau since 2011 in the majority of analytics projects. His expertise covers building data warehouses and sophisticated analytical solutions. Currently, he works as a solutions architect at Rock Your Data consulting company. Previously, he was a big data architect at Sberbank and also worked as a professional service consultant at Teradata.

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