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Mastering Tableau

You're reading from   Mastering Tableau Smart Business Intelligence techniques to get maximum insights from your data

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Product type Paperback
Published in Dec 2016
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781784397692
Length 476 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Jen Stirrup Jen Stirrup
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Table of Contents (14) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Getting Up to Speed – a Review of the Basics FREE CHAPTER 2. All about Data – Getting Your Data Ready 3. All about Data – Joins, Blends, and Data Structures 4. All about Data – Data Densification, Cubes, and Big Data 5. Table Calculations 6. Level of Detail Calculations 7. Beyond the Basic Chart Types 8. Mapping 9. Tableau for Presentations 10. Visualization Best Practices and Dashboard Design 11. Improving Performance 12. Interacting with Tableau Server 13. R Integration

Embedding Tableau in PowerPoint


It is possible to embed Tableau directly in a PowerPoint presentation. Or, to be more accurate, it's possible to embed a web browser through which an instance of Tableau Server may be accessed. There are various methods for accomplishing this, including the Web Viewer app, a third party add-in called LiveWeb, and VBA code.

The Web Viewer app is available at https://store.office.com. Although it works well for Tableau Public, the default Tableau Server settings disallow access via Web View. LiveWeb works well but requires an additional installation. The third method, using VBA, is perhaps the most workable method and will be discussed next.

Exercise – create an interactive PowerPoint presentation

The following steps utilize PowerPoint 2013 on Windows. Other versions of PowerPoint may require a slightly different approach, but any differences should be relatively easy to figure out. Also, the exercise assumes that the Developer toolbar is activated. If the Developer...

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