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Fourth edition. |
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1 online resource (xv, 552 pages) : color illustrations |
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text file |
| Contents |
Cover -- Copyright -- Packt Page -- Contributors -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Chapter 1: Taking Off with Tableau -- Connecting to data -- Foundations for building visualizations -- Measures and dimensions -- Discrete and continuous fields -- Discrete fields -- Continuous fields -- Visualizing data -- Bar charts -- Iterations of bar charts for deeper analysis -- Line charts -- Iterations of line charts for deeper analysis -- Geographic visualizations -- Filled maps -- Symbol maps -- Density maps -- Using Show Me -- Putting everything together in a dashboard -- The dashboard interface |
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Building your dashboard -- Summary -- Chapter 2: Connecting to Data in Tableau -- The Tableau paradigm -- A simple example -- Connecting to data -- Connecting to data in a file -- Connecting to data on a server -- Using extracts -- Connecting to data in the cloud -- Shortcuts for connecting to data -- Managing data source metadata -- Working with extracts instead of live connections -- Creating extracts -- Performance -- Portability and security -- When to use an extract -- Filtering data -- Filtering discrete (blue) fields -- Filtering continuous (green) fields -- Filtering dates |
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Other filtering options -- Summary -- Chapter 3: Moving Beyond Basic Visualizations -- Comparing values -- Bar charts -- Bar chart variations -- Bullet chart -- Bar-in-bar chart -- Highlighting categories of interest -- Visualizing dates and times -- Date parts, date values, and exact dates -- Variations of date and time visualizations -- Gantt charts -- Relating parts of the data to the whole -- Stacked bars -- Treemaps -- Area charts -- Pie charts -- Visualizing distributions -- Circle charts -- Jittering -- Box and whisker plots -- Histograms |
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Visualizing multiple axes to compare different measures -- Scatterplot -- Dual-axis and combination charts -- Summary -- Chapter 4: Starting an Adventure with Calculations and Parameters -- Introduction to calculations -- The four main types of calculations -- Creating and editing calculations -- Data types -- Additional functions and operators -- Example data -- Row-level calculations -- Simple example -- More complex examples -- Extending the example -- Planning for data variations -- Aggregate calculations -- Why the row level versus aggregate difference matters -- Parameters |
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Creating parameters -- Practical examples of calculations and parameters -- Fixing data issues -- Extending the data -- Enhancing user experience, analysis, and visualizations -- Meeting business requirements -- Ad hoc calculations -- Performance considerations -- Summary -- Chapter 5: Leveraging Level of Detail Calculations -- Overview of level of detail -- Level of detail calculations -- Level of detail syntax -- Level of detail types -- FIXED -- INCLUDE -- EXCLUDE -- An illustration of the difference level of detail can make -- Examples of fixed level of detail calculations |
| Access |
Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK). WlAbNL |
| Summary |
Thousands of enterprises worldwide use Tableau as the solution for their data issues, big and small. With this updated edition, you will develop a firm grip on data visualization using Tableau 2020 and master all of the core features that enable you to explore, prepare, fix, and present data quickly and easily. |
| Terms Of Use |
Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force. WlAbNL |
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Online resource; title from pdf title page (EbscoHost, viewed December 20, 2021). |
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Copyright © 2020 Packt Publishing 2020 |
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Tableau (Computer file)
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Tableau (Computer file) (OCoLC)fst01938161
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Information visualization.
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Business intelligence -- Computer programs.
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Operational research.
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Enterprise software.
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Information visualization.
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Computers -- Enterprise Applications -- General.
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Computers -- Enterprise Applications -- Business Intelligence Tools.
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Information visualization. (OCoLC)fst00973185
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Milligan, Joshua N. Learning Tableau 2020. 4th ed. Birmingham : Packt Publishing, Limited, 2020 9781800203723 (OCoLC)1236153787 |
| ISBN |
9781800203723 (electronic book) |
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