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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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David Pires David Pires
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Tristan Guillevin Tristan Guillevin
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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

Pages

Not only do Pages add interactivity to your visualization, but they're also the only way to create animation in Tableau. You may have never seen a Tableau visualization with animation, for a simple reason: currently, Tableau Server/Online and Tableau Public can't display the animations. That's why Pages are not much used. But what exactly are Pages?

Page basics

Pages act like filters but only show one value at a time. Each value is a Page, and you can click on the Play button to go through all the Pages and create an animation.

A few things to have in mind before we look at any concrete examples:

  • You can only use Discrete fields in Pages
  • When you...
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