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Learning Tableau 2020

You're reading from   Learning Tableau 2020 Create effective data visualizations, build interactive visual analytics, and transform your organization

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Product type Paperback
Published in Aug 2020
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781800200364
Length 576 pages
Edition 4th Edition
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Joshua N. Milligan Joshua N. Milligan
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Table of Contents (19) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Taking Off with Tableau 2. Connecting to Data in Tableau FREE CHAPTER 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. Understanding the Tableau Data Model, Joins, and Blends 14. Structuring Messy Data to Work Well in Tableau 15. Taming Data with Tableau Prep 16. Sharing Your Data Story 17. Other Books You May Enjoy
18. Index

A dashboard to understand profitability

Having covered some conceptual topics as well as practical matters related to dashboard design, we'll dive into an example.

Let's say you've been tasked with helping management find which items are the least profitable. Management feels that most of the least profitable items should be eliminated from their inventory. However, since you've done your analysis, you've discovered that certain items, while not profitable overall, have made a profit at times in various locations. Your primary objective is to give management the ability to quickly see an analysis of the least profitable items to identify whether an item has always been unprofitable, answering the question, "Is the least profitable item always unprofitable?" This example will combine aspects of a guided analytics dashboard and an exploratory tool.

Building the views

Use the Superstore Sales dataset and follow these steps to build...

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