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Pro Tableau : A Step-By-Step Guide
Overview
Table of content
Chapter 1: Introducing Visualization and Tableau
- Why Visualization?
- What is Visualization?
- Positioning of Tableau
- Tableau product lines
- File types in Tableau
- .twb
- .twbx
- .tds
- .tdsx
- .tde
- .tbm
Chapter 2: Working with Single and Multiple Data Sources
- Desktop Architecture
- Data Connection Page
- Connect to a File
- Excel
- Open with legacy connection
- Text
- Microsoft Access
- R data file (.rdata)
- Connect to a Server
- Microsoft SQL Server
- MySQL
- NoSQL Databases (MongoDB, Cassandra)
- Metadata Grid
- Using Data Extracts
- All about Joins
- Using Custom SQL
- Using Data Blending
Chapter 3: Simplifying and Sorting your Data
- Filtering on dimensions and measures
- Soring on single dimension - Primary sort
- Sorting on more than one dimension - Secondary Sort
- Slicing your data by date
- Discrete dates
- Continuous dates
- Organizing your data
- Groups
- Hierarchies
- Sets
- Static sets
- Dynamic sets
- Difference between groups and sets
Chapter 4: Measure Values and Measure Names
- Using measure values and measure names in a view
Chapter 5: Using Quick Table Calculations in Tableau
- Running Total
- Percent of Total
- Percentile
- Rank
- Moving average
- Year over Year Growth
- Level Of Detail (LOD) calculations
Chapter 6: Customizing your Data
- String Calculations
- Number Calculations
- Date Calculations
- Logical Calculations
Chapter 7: Statistics
- Descriptive Statistics
- Sum
- Average
- Min
- Max
- Count
- Count(distinct)
- Median
- Standard Deviation
- Variance
- Using the Analytics Pane
- Constant Lines
- Average Lines
- Five magical number summary
- Box and whisker plot
- Trend Lines
- Forecast
- Box and whisker plot
Chapter 8: Chart Forms
- Bar Chart
- Pie chart
- Line graph
- Scatter Plot
- Histogram
- Heat Map
- Tree Map
- Highlight Table
Chapter 9: Advance Visualization Methods
- Waterfall Charts
- Gantt View
- Bullet Graph
- Creating an interactive dashboard
- Adding Actions to your dashboard
- Telling stories with data
Chapter 11: Integration of R with Tableau
- Functions such as (SCRIPT_INT(), SCRIPT_REAL(), SCRIPT_BOOL(), SCRIPT_STR())
- Data Mining
- Affinity Analysis
- K-means Clustering
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Details
- ISBN-13: 9781484223512
- ISBN-10: 1484223519
- Publisher: Apress
- Publish Date: December 2016
- Dimensions: 10 x 7 x 1.73 inches
- Shipping Weight: 3.27 pounds
- Page Count: 845
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