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Getting Started with Tableau 2018.x

You're reading from   Getting Started with Tableau 2018.x Get up and running with the new features of Tableau 2018 for impactful data visualization

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788838689
Length 396 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (16) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Catching Up with Tableau 2018 2. The Tableau Core FREE CHAPTER 3. A First Dashboard and Exploration 4. Connect to Data and Simple Transformations 5. Build an Efficient Data Source 6. Design Insightful Visualizations - Part 1 7. Design Insightful Visualizations - Part 2 8. Create Powerful Dashboards and Stories 9. Publish and Interact in Tableau Server 10. An Introduction to Calculations 11. Analytics and Parameters 12. Advanced Data Connections 13. Deal with Security 14. How to Keep Growing Your Skills 15. Other Books You May Enjoy

Speaking Tableau

Rather than a big list of all the terms, let's go through the basic Tableau usage.

When you open Tableau, you start working on a Workbook. After you're done working, you save your work in that Workbook (a .twb or .twbx file). You can open multiple instances of Tableau, each of them being a different Workbook.

The first page when creating a Workbook is the start page. Here, you can Connect to data and open recent Workbooks. Here is the start page:

After connecting to a File or a Server, Tableau opens the Data Source workplace. On this page, you can create the Data Source by choosing the tables you want to use and creating Joins, Unions, or other transformations. The following screenshot illustrates the Data Source workplace:

Once your Data Source is done, you can start working on a Worksheet...

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Getting Started with Tableau 2018.x
Published in: Sep 2018
Publisher: Packt
ISBN-13: 9781788838689
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