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You're reading from Tableau 10 Business Intelligence Cookbook

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Published in Nov 2016

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781786465634

Pages 476 pages

Edition 1st Edition

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Business Intelligence

Authors (2):

Donabel Santos

Paul Banoub

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Table of Contents (17) Chapters

Tableau 10 Business Intelligence Cookbook

Credits

About the Author

Acknowledgements

About the Reviewer

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Preface

1. Basic Charts

Introduction
Creating a bar chart
Creating a stacked bar chart
Creating a line chart
Creating a scatter plot
Creating a heat map
Creating a text table (crosstab)
Creating a highlight table
Creating an area chart
Creating a pie chart
Creating a bubble chart
Creating a word cloud
Creating a tree map

2. Advanced Charts

Introduction
Creating a histogram
Creating a small multiple chart
Creating a shared axis chart
Creating a combo chart (dual axis chart)
Creating a bullet chart
Creating a bar in bar chart
Creating a donut chart
Creating a unit chart
Creating a box and whisker chart
Creating a sparkline with indicators
Creating a KPI text table
Creating a waterfall chart
Creating a population pyramid

3. Interactivity

Introduction
Creating a motion chart
Creating a dynamic column/row trellis chart
Creating a top/bottom N filter
Comparing one to everything else
Dynamically displaying dimensions
Dynamically displaying and sorting measures
Creating a custom date period filter

4. Dashboards and Story Points

Introduction
Creating a filter action
Creating a highlight action
Creating a URL action
Creating an Infographic-like dashboard
Creating story points

5. Maps and Geospatial Visualization

Introduction
Adding data layers to map
Creating custom territories
Working with Web Map Service (WMS)
Using path to display movement in map
Mapping custom polygons
Importing custom geocoding
Using a custom image background

6. Analytics

Introduction
Adding a constant line
Adding a trend line
Using a reference line
Adding a reference band
Performing cluster analysis
Visualizing forecast
Performing linear regression with R

7. Data Preparation

Introduction
Using the Data Interpreter and pivot
Using the legacy Jet driver
Using schema.ini to resolve data type issues
Pivoting columns
Using union
Using join
Using blend

Calculated Fields Primer

Different ways to create calculated fields
Calculated field window
Functions in Tableau
Function syntax
Word of caution
Different types of calculated fields
Dealing with NULLs
Tidbits
Conclusion

Resources

Data sources for recipes in this book
Articles and white papers
Blogs and additional resources

Index

Chapter 1. Basic Charts

In this chapter, we will cover:

Creating a bar chart
Creating a stacked bar chart
Creating a line chart
Creating a scatter plot
Creating a heat map
Creating a text table (crosstab)
Creating a highlight table
Creating an area chart
Creating a pie chart
Creating a bubble chart
Creating a word cloud
Creating a tree map

You're reading from Tableau 10 Business Intelligence Cookbook

Table of Contents (17) Chapters

Chapter 1. Basic Charts

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