Tableau 8: The Official Guide
- 3h 39m
- George Peck
- McGraw-Hill/Osborne
- 2014
Present a unified view of complex BI using the entire Tableau 8 toolkit
Create and distribute dynamic, feature-rich data visualizations and highly interactive BI dashboards—quickly and easily! Tableau 8: The Official Guide provides the hands-on instruction and best practices you need to meet your business intelligence objectives and drive better decision making. Discover how to work from the Tableau GUI, load BI from disparate sources, drag and drop to analyze data, set up custom visualizations, and build robust dashboards. This practical guide shows you, step by step, how to design and publish meaningful business communications to end users across your enterprise.
- Navigate the Tableau user interface and data window
- Connect to spreadsheets, databases, and other sources
- Select data fields and drag them to desired screen locations
- Work with pre-defined visualizations and sample workbooks
- Display background maps and perform geographic analysis
- Add calculated fields, graphs, charts, tables, and statistics
- Combine multiple data sources into real-time dashboards
- Export your visualizations to the Web or in various file formats
About the Author
George Peck is a Certified Tableau trainer. His company, The Ablaze Group, is a Tableau Reseller and Training Partner. George is the bestselling author of several BI books, including multiple editions of Crystal Reports: The Complete Reference.
In this Book
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Introduction to Tableau 8
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Basic Visualization Design
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Data Connection Details
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Top 10 Chart Types
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Interacting with the Viewer
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Tableau Maps
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Calculated Fields, Table Calculations, and Statistics
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Creating Dashboards
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Distributing and Sharing Your Visualizations
