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Mastering Tableau 2023

You're reading from   Mastering Tableau 2023 Implement advanced business intelligence techniques, analytics, and machine learning models with Tableau

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Product type Paperback
Published in Aug 2023
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781803233765
Length 684 pages
Edition 4th Edition
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Marleen Meier Marleen Meier
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Table of Contents (19) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Reviewing the Basics 2. Getting Your Data Ready FREE CHAPTER 3. Using Tableau Prep Builder 4. Learning about Joins, Blends, and Data Structures 5. Introducing Table Calculations 6. Utilizing OData, Data Densification, Big Data, and Google BigQuery 7. Practicing Level of Detail Calculations 8. Going Beyond the Basics 9. Working with Maps 10. Presenting with Tableau 11. Designing Dashboards and Best Practices for Visualizations 12. Leveraging Advanced Analytics 13. Improving Performance 14. Exploring Tableau Server and Tableau Cloud 15. Integrating Programming Languages 16. Developing Data Governance Practices 17. Other Books You May Enjoy
18. Index

Summary

We began this chapter by considering how to tweak popular visualization types. Specifically, we fine-tuned a bullet graph, considered a very different approach to using pie charts in mapping, and ended by tweaking a Pareto chart. Next, we turned our attention to custom background images, where we considered how to build a grid using XML to generate an SVG file, to expedite generated data for use with background images. Then, we completed the chapter by building polygons on a background image and had a quick excursion into the world of Tableau Exchange. We discussed accelerators, extensions, and connectors but also Einstein Discovery, which is a separate product sold by Salesforce.

There are too many options to cover them all in this book but since you are an expert in replicating by now, I added more sheets with other visualizations to the solutions workbook for you to play with. You will find sheets with bar charts, stacked bar charts, diverging stacked bar charts, crosstabs...

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