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

Product type Paperback

Published in Aug 2022

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781801072328

Length 568 pages

Edition 5th Edition

Tools

Tableau

Concepts

Business Intelligence

Author (1):

Joshua N. Milligan

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Table of Contents (20) Chapters

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

Summary

This chapter covered key concepts of how Tableau works with data. Although you will not usually be concerned with what queries Tableau generates to query underlying data engines, having a solid understanding of Tableau’s paradigm will greatly aid you as you analyze data.

We looked at multiple examples of different connections to different data sources, considered the benefits and potential drawbacks of using data extracts, considered how to manage metadata, and considered options for filtering data.

Working with data is fundamental to everything you do in Tableau. Understanding how to connect to various data sources, when to work with extracts, and how to customize metadata will be key as you begin deeper analysis and more complex visualizations, such as those covered in Chapter 3, Moving Beyond Basic Visualizations.