Tableau Your Data!: Fast and Easy Visual Analysis with Tableau Software

Tableau Your Data!: Fast and Easy Visual Analysis with Tableau Software

Author: Dan Murray | Language: English | ISBN: 1118612043 | Format: EPUB

Tableau Your Data!: Fast and Easy Visual Analysis with Tableau Software Description

Best practices and step-by-step instructions for using the Tableau Software toolset

Although the Tableau Desktop interface is relatively intuitive, this book goes beyond the simple mechanics of the interface to show best practices for creating effective visualizations for specific business intelligence objectives. It illustrates little-known features and techniques for getting the most from the Tableau toolset, supporting the needs of the business analysts who use the product as well as the data and IT managers who support it.

This comprehensive guide covers the core feature set for data analytics, illustrating best practices for creating and sharing specific types of dynamic data visualizations. Featuring a helpful full-color layout, the book covers analyzing data with Tableau Desktop, sharing information with Tableau Server, understanding Tableau functions and calculations, and Use Cases for Tableau Software.

• Includes little-known, as well as more advanced features and techniques, using detailed, real-world case studies that the author has developed as part of his consulting and training practice
• Explains why and how Tableau differs from traditional business information analysis tools
• Shows you how to deploy dashboards and visualizations throughout the enterprise
• Provides a detailed reference resource that is aimed at users of all skill levels
• Depicts ways to leverage Tableau across the value chain in the enterprise through case studies that target common business requirements
• Endorsed by Tableau Software

Tableau Your Data shows you how to build dynamic, best-of-breed visualizations using the Tableau Software toolset.

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• Paperback: 528 pages
• Publisher: Wiley; 1 edition (November 11, 2013)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1118612043
• ISBN-13: 978-1118612040
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 7.5 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.6 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)

Foreword xix

Introduction xxi

Part I Desktop 1

1 Creating Visual Analytics with Tableau Desktop 3

2 Connecting to Your Data 35

3 Building Your First Visualization 65

4 Creating Calculations to Enhance Your Data 109

5 Using Maps to Improve Insight 137

6 Developing an Ad Hoc Analysis Environment 161

7 Tips, Tricks, and Timesavers 177

8 Bringing It All Together with Dashboards 211

Part II Tableau Server 281

9 Installing Tableau Server 283

10 Using Tableau Server to Facilitate Fact-Based Team Collaboration 317

11 Automating Server with Tableau’s Command Line Tools 357

Part III Case Studies 371

12 Use Cases for Rapid-Fire Visual Analytics 373

Part IV Appendices 393

A Understanding and Using Tableau Functions 395

B Tableau Data Shaper Excel Plug-In 475

C Companion Website 479

D Glossary 481

Index 493

I was a consultant at Tableau for 30 months, and, have been an independent BI consultant for 15 years. I have every Tableau book written. This one is, absolutely, the best book, reference guide, examples, tips, tricks, etc. ever written, for Tableau.
It fully covers both Desktop and Server, theory, installation and use, Chapter 12, real customer solutions, showcases some great examples. This book will be with me in my consulting travels, and, will be recommended to all my clients!
Thank you, Dan, and every other contributor! Well done!

By Chuck Hooper

I have been using Tableau at work for about 5 months and relying on their online tutorials, which are quite good, to perform given tasks. I also have another Tableau book, so I did not think I needed anything else, but the author spoke at our Tableau Users Group earlier this month and his talk was great so I ordered the book.

It turns out this book is probably the most helpful thing I've acquired since getting Tableau, itself. It has not only improved the way I use Tableau, it's changed the way I think about Tableau.

Unlike other books, this one provides a complete view of what Tableau actually is and how it works from the ground up. For the first time, I feel like I am thinking about Tableau's functions in context and in order.

The book also has this fantastic quality of being both readable and informative - like talking to a thoughtful, knowledgeable person about using Tableau versus reading a robotic user manual.

By ulrike

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