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Learning Tableau 2020 : create effective data visualizations, build interactive visual analytics, and transform your organization /

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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Milligan, Joshua N. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Birmingham : Packt Publishing [2020]
Edición:Fourth edition.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo (Requiere registro previo con correo institucional)
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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