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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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Table of Contents (12) Chapters Close

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

Data Visualization Using Tableau Desktop

In an earlier section, you familiarized yourself with the workspace of Tableau and learned how to create a visualization using the manual drag and drop method as well as the automated Show Me button. During the course of this book and across various chapters, you will get into more details of this workspace and learn about some more of the options available in the toolbar as well as the other shelves.

Now that you have some fundamental knowledge of how to create a visualization using the aforementioned methods, you will now explore some concepts of data visualization and how to use these in Tableau Desktop.

Ideally, when you present your analysis and insights, you want your end user to be able to quickly consume the information that you have presented and make better decisions more quickly. One way to achieve this objective is to present the information in the right format. Each chart, graph, or visualization has a specific purpose, and...

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