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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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Table of Contents (14) Chapters Close

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

Chapter 3. All about Data – Joins, Blends, and Data Structures

Connecting Tableau to data often means more than connecting to a single table in a single data source. You may need to use Tableau to join multiple tables from a single data source. As of Tableau 10, you can also join tables from disparate data sources. Sometimes, you may need to merge data that does not share a common row-level key. In such cases, you will need to blend the data. Also, you may find instances where it is necessary to create multiple connections to a single data source in order to pivot the data in different ways. This may be required in order to discover answers to questions that are difficult or simply not possible to address with a single data structure.

In this chapter, we will discuss the following:

  • Complex joins
  • Data blending
  • Data structures
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