Tableau 10 Complete Reference: Transform your business with rich data visualizations and interactive dashboards with Tableau 10 - Softcover

Milligan, Joshua N.; Guillevin, Tristan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1789957087 ISBN 13: 9781789957082

Publisher: Packt Publishing, 2018

Synopsis

Explore and understand data with the powerful data visualization techniques of Tableau, and then communicate insights in powerful ways

Key Features:

- Apply best practices in data visualization and chart types exploration

- Explore the latest version of Tableau Desktop with hands-on examples

- Understand the fundamentals of Tableau storytelling

Book Description:

Graphical presentation of data enables us to easily understand complex data sets. Tableau 10 Complete Reference provides easy-to-follow recipes with several use cases and real-world business scenarios to get you up and running with Tableau 10.

This Learning Path begins with the history of data visualization and its importance in today's businesses. You'll also be introduced to Tableau - how to connect, clean, and analyze data in this visual analytics software. Then, you'll learn how to apply what you've learned by creating some simple calculations in Tableau and using Table Calculations to help drive greater analysis from your data. Next, you'll explore different advanced chart types in Tableau. These chart types require you to have some understanding of the Tableau interface and understand basic calculations. You'll study in detail all dashboard techniques and best practices. A number of recipes specifically for geospatial visualization, analytics, and data preparation are also covered. Last but not least, you'll learn about the power of storytelling through the creation of interactive dashboards in Tableau.

Through this Learning Path, you will gain confidence and competence to analyze and communicate data and insights more efficiently and effectively by creating compelling interactive charts, dashboards, and stories in Tableau.

This Learning Path includes content from the following Packt products:

- Learning Tableau 10 - Second Edition by Joshua N. Milligan

- Getting Started with Tableau 2018.x by Tristan Guillevin

What You Will Learn:

- Build effective visualizations, dashboards, and story points

- Build basic to more advanced charts with step-by-step recipes

- Become familiar row-level, aggregate, and table calculations

- Dig deep into data with clustering and distribution models

- Prepare and transform data for analysis

- Leverage Tableau's mapping capabilities to visualize data

- Use data storytelling techniques to aid decision making strategy

Who this book is for:

Tableau 10 Complete Reference is designed for anyone who wants to understand their data better and represent it in an effective manner. It is also used for BI professionals and data analysts who want to do better at their jobs.

About this title

About the Authors

Joshua N. Milligan is a five-time Tableau Zen Master, the highest recognition of excellence from Tableau Software for masters and teachers of Tableau and collaborators within the community. He was one of three Iron Viz Global finalists in 2017. He is passionate in serving others through data visualization and analytics. As a consultant with Teknion Data Solutions since 2004, he has extensive real-world experience across many industries. In addition to authoring every edition of Learning Tableau, he was a technical reviewer for Tableau Data Visualization Cookbook and Creating Data Stories with Tableau Public. He shares Tableau and Tableau Prep tips on VizPainter and his Twitter handle is @VizPainter. He lives with his family in Tulsa.

Tristan Guillevin is a true data lover who likes to share his passion. He graduated from engineering school in 2015. During these years, he went to Burkina Faso to teach computer science in schools around the country. The will to share and help people never left him since then. He started his professional life as a consultant at Actinvision, where he discovered Tableau. Soon, data visualization became a passion that has taken him around the world. In 2017, he won the Iron Viz (the ultimate data visualization battle organized by Tableau every year) in Las Vegas. Since his winning, he helps people with Tableau by making webinars, conferences, blog articles, and finally, this book! He's currently working at Ogury as a business analyst.

Edition details

• Publisher: Packt Publishing
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1789957087
• ISBN 13: 9781789957082
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 496