Tableau Desktop

This first section, covering Tableau Desktop, is divided into three parts, as follows:

• Data source improvements: All of the new ways to connect your data and increase performance
• Visualization improvements: All of the things that you can do on a Worksheet, to create better visualizations
• Dashboard improvements: All of the options and new features to help you create better Dashboards

To understand and reproduce the examples provided in this chapter, you need to know how to connect to data, build a Data Source, and create Worksheets and Dashboards.

Data Source improvements

In this section of the book, we'll focus on two major improvements: the normalized extract and the spatial join.

Normalized extract (2018.3)

Previously, when creating an extract, Tableau always generated a single table. This was sometimes problematic, especially when a Join duplicated the number of lines. Now, when you Join multiple tables, you can choose the schema, creating either a Single Table or Multiple Tables...