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Tableau 10 Complete Reference

You're reading from   Tableau 10 Complete Reference Transform your business with rich data visualizations and interactive dashboards with Tableau 10

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Product type Course
Published in Dec 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789957082
Length 496 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Joshua N. Milligan Joshua N. Milligan
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Tristan Guillevin Tristan Guillevin
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Table of Contents (20) Chapters Close

Title Page
About Packt
Contributors
Preface
1. Creating Your First Visualizations and Dashboard 2. Working with Data in Tableau FREE CHAPTER 3. Moving from Foundational to More Advanced Visualizations 4. Using Row-Level, Aggregate, and Level of Detail Calculations 5. Table Calculations 6. Formatting a Visualization to Look Great and Work Well 7. Telling a Data Story with Dashboards 8. Deeper Analysis - Trends, Clustering, Distributions, and Forecasting 9. Making Data Work for You 10. Advanced Visualizations, Techniques, Tips, and Tricks 11. Sharing Your Data Story 12. Catching Up with Tableau 2018 13. Deal with Security 14. How to Keep Growing Your Skills 1. Other Books You May Enjoy Index

Using background images


Background images allow you to plot data on top of any image. Consider the possibilities! You could plot ticket sales by seat on an image of a stadium, room use on the floor plan of an office building, the number of errors by piece of equipment on a network diagram, or meteor impacts on the surface of the moon.

In this example, we'll plot the number of patients per month in various rooms in a hospital. We'll use two images of floor plans for the ground floor and 2nd floor of the hospital. The data source is located in the Chapter 10 directory and is named Hospital.xlsx. It consists of two tabs: one for patient counts and another for room locations based on the x/y coordinates mapped to the images. We'll consider shortly how that works. You can view the completed example in the Chapter 10 Complete.twbx workbook or start from scratch using Chapter 10 Starter.twbx.

To specify a background image, use the top menu to navigate to Map à Background Images and then click the...

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