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Pro Tableau : A Step-By-Step Guide

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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

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
Chapter 10: Dashboard and Stories
  • 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

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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