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The Tableau Workshop

You're reading from   The Tableau Workshop A practical guide to the art of data visualization with Tableau

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Product type Paperback
Published in Apr 2022
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781800207653
Length 822 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Shweta Savale Shweta Savale
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Kenneth Michael Cherven Kenneth Michael Cherven
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Sumit Gupta Sumit Gupta
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Sylvester Pinto Sylvester Pinto
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JC Gillet JC Gillet
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Preface
1. Introduction: Visual Analytics with Tableau 2. Data Preparation: Using Tableau Desktop FREE CHAPTER 3. Data Preparation: Using Tableau Prep 4. Data Exploration: Comparison and Composition 5. Data Exploration: Distributions and Relationships 6. Data Exploration: Exploring Geographical Data 7. Data Analysis: Creating and Using Calculations 8. Data Analysis: Creating and Using Table Calculations 9. Data Analysis: Creating and Using Level of Details (LOD) Calculations 10. Dashboards and Storyboards 11. Tableau Interactivity: Part 1

Introduction to Tableau Desktop

Now, that you have identified and chosen Tableau Desktop for the creation of your visuals and dashboards, let's dive deeper into the product, its interface, and its functionality. So, once you have downloaded and installed the product, you will be able to use the products to connect to your data and start building your visualizations.

The landing page of Tableau Desktop is shown in the following screenshot:

Figure 1.7: A screenshot of the Tableau Desktop landing page

Review the following list for explanations of the highlighted sections in the screenshot:

  1. Connect: The list of data sources you can connect to. You can connect to data residing on Tableau Server (the Search for Data option); to flat files, such as Excel and CSVs (the To a File option); or to databases (the To a Server option). Tableau has native in-built connectors for a lot of the data sources, which makes the interaction with data from...
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