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Learning Tableau 2022

You're reading from   Learning Tableau 2022 Create effective data visualizations, build interactive visual analytics, and improve your data storytelling capabilities

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Product type Paperback
Published in Aug 2022
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781801072328
Length 568 pages
Edition 5th Edition
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Joshua N. Milligan Joshua N. Milligan
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Preface 1. Taking Off with Tableau FREE CHAPTER 2. Connecting to Data in Tableau 3. Moving Beyond Basic Visualizations 4. Starting an Adventure with Calculations and Parameters 5. Leveraging Level of Detail Calculations 6. Diving Deep with Table Calculations 7. Making Visualizations that Look Great and Work Well 8. Telling a Data Story with Dashboards 9. Visual Analytics: Trends, Clustering, Distributions, and Forecasting 10. Advanced Visualizations 11. Dynamic Dashboards 12. Exploring Mapping and Advanced Geospatial Features 13. Integrating Advanced Features: Extensions, Scripts, and AI 14. Understanding the Tableau Data Model, Joins, and Blends 15. Structuring Messy Data to Work Well in Tableau 16. Taming Data with Tableau Prep 17. Sharing Your Data Story 18. Other Books You May Enjoy
19. Index

Exploring Mapping and Advanced Geospatial Features

Up until now, we’ve seen examples of maps and geospatial visualizations that leverage some of the basic functionality of Tableau. In this chapter, we’ll embark on a journey to uncover the vast range of mapping and geospatial features available. From using the built-in geospatial database and supplementing it with additional data and spatial files to using advanced geospatial functions, we’ll explore what’s possible with Tableau.

As we’ve done previously, this chapter will approach the concepts through some practical examples. These examples will span various industries, including real estate, transportation, and healthcare. As always, these examples are broadly applicable, and you’ll discover many ways to leverage your data and uncover answers in the spatial patterns you’ll find.

In this chapter, we’ll cover the following topics:

  • Overview of Tableau maps
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