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Learning Tableau 10 - Second Edition.

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Milligan, Joshua N.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Birmingham : Packt Publishing, 2016.
Edición:2nd ed.
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  • Cover; Copyright; Credits; About the Author; About the Reviewers; www.PacktPub.com; Table of Contents; Preface; Chapter 1: Creating Your First Visualizations and Dashboard; Connecting to data; Foundations for building visualizations; Measures and dimensions; Discrete and continuous; Discrete fields; Continuous fields; Visualizing data; Creating bar charts; Iterations of bar charts for deeper analysis; Creating line charts; Iterations of line charts for deeper analysis; Creating geographic visualizations; Filled maps; Symbol maps; Using Show Me; Bringing everything together in a dashboard.
  • Building your dashboardSummary; Chapter 2: Working with Data in Tableau; The Tableau paradigm; A simple example; Connecting to data; Connecting to data in a file; Connecting to data on a server; Connecting to data in the cloud; Shortcuts for connecting to data; Managing data source metadata; Working with extracts instead of live connections; Creating extracts; Using extracts; Performance; Portability and security; When to use an extract; Tableau file types; Joins and blends; Joining tables; Cross
  • database joins; Blending data sources; Blending example; Filtering data.
  • Filtering discrete fieldsFiltering continuous fields; Filtering dates; Other filtering options; Summary; Chapter 3: Moving from Foundational to More Advanced Visualizations; Comparing values across different dimensions; Bar charts; Bar chart variations; Bullet chart
  • showing progress toward a goal; Bar in bar chart; Highlighting categories of interest; Visualizing dates and times; The built-in date hierarchy; 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 chartsJittering; Box and whisker plots; Histograms; Visualizing multiple axes to compare different measures; Scatterplot; Dual axis; Combination charts; Summary; Chapter 4: Using Row-Level, Aggregate, and Level of Detail Calculations; Creating and editing calculations; Overview of the three main types of calculations; Row Level examples; Aggregate Level example; Row Level or Aggregate
  • why does it matter?; Level of Detail calculations; Level of Detail syntax; Level of Detail example; Parameters; Creating parameters; Practical examples of calculations and parameters; Fixing data issues.
  • Extending the dataEnhancing user experience, analysis, and visualizations; Achieving flexibility with data blends; Ad hoc calculations; Performance considerations; Summary; Chapter 5: Table Calculations; Overview of table calculations; Creating and editing table calculations; Quick table calculations; Relative versus fixed; Scope and direction; Working with scope and direction; Addressing and partitioning; Advanced addressing and partitioning; Custom table calculations; Practical examples; Year
  • over
  • Year growth; Ranking within higher levels; Late filtering; Data densification.