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Tableau Desktop Certified Associate: Exam Guide

You're reading from   Tableau Desktop Certified Associate: Exam Guide Develop your Tableau skills and prepare for Tableau certification with tips from industry experts

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Product type Paperback
Published in Dec 2019
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781838984137
Length 370 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (15) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Section 1: Getting Started with Tableau
2. Building Your Data Model FREE CHAPTER 3. Section 2: Answering Questions with Data
4. Working with Worksheets 5. Analyzing Data Using Charts 6. Visualizing Geographic Data 7. Understanding Simple Calculations in Tableau 8. Section 3: Advanced Tableau
9. Tableau Table Calculations 10. Level of Detail Expressions 11. Leveraging Analytics Capabilities 12. Building Your Dashboards 13. Mock Test A + B (Assessment) 14. Other Books You May Enjoy

Working with Worksheets

Now that we have connected to our data sources, we can begin to glean insights. You will discover these insights using the worksheet tab. A worksheet is where you will build charts and tables using the data you have connected to. If you have used Microsoft Excel in the past, Tableau's sheet structure should be familiar. The workbook is the Tableau file you have open. Within the workbook, you will work with sheets. There are three different types of sheets:

Sheet Icon Sheet description
Worksheet – This is the primary workspace in which you will be working with your data.
Dashboard – This is a collection of worksheets on one page with filters to personalize the view.
Story – This is a collection of worksheets and/or dashboards sequenced in a presentation format.

This chapter will explain how to use Tableau’...

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