Maximizing Tableau Server: A beginner's guide to accessing, sharing, and managing content on Tableau Server - Softcover

Sarsfield, Patrick; Locker, Brandi

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1801071136 ISBN 13: 9781801071130

Publisher: Packt Publishing, 2021

Synopsis

Enhance your analytical skills by learning how to extract rich insights from your data and workbooks to empower your business

Key Features

• Understand the difference between Tableau Public and Tableau Server and how to quickly get connected, start publishing workbooks, and adjust basic settings
• Navigate the Tableau Server interface to locate, sort, filter, and customize viewing options
• Cover best practices for improving efficiency on Tableau Server

Book Description

Tableau Server is a business intelligence application that allows its users to organize, edit, share, and collaborate on Tableau dashboards. This book gets you up and running with Tableau Server to help you increase end-user engagement for your published work as well as reduce or eliminate redundant tasks in the process.

You’ll explore Tableau Server's architecture and understand how to get started by connecting, publishing content, and navigating the software interface. Next, you’ll learn when and how to update the settings of your content at various levels to best utilize Tableau Server’s features. You’ll also explore how to interact with the Tableau Server interface to efficiently locate, sort, filter, manage and customize content. Later, the book shows you how to leverage other valuable features that enable you and your audience to share, download, and interact with content on Tableau Server. As you progress, you’ll cover principles to increase the efficiency and performance of your published content. All along, the book shows you how to navigate, interact with, and best utilize Tableau Server with the help of engaging examples and best practices shared by recognized Tableau experts.

By the end of this Tableau book, you’ll have a comprehensive understanding of how to use Tableau Server to manage content and increase end-user engagement.

What you will learn

• Get well-versed with Tableau Server's architecture to quickly and easily access essential content
• Understand how to connect, publish, manage, and modify content on Tableau Server
• Discover how to navigate and use Tableau Server to make the most of it
• Explore the different types of content and navigate through the project hierarchy quickly
• Build data visualization views automatically by typing a question
• Understand how to monitor disparate metrics on multiple dashboards
• Customize Tableau Server for individual and group needs to optimize the user experience

Who This Book Is For

This Tableau software book is for BI developers and data analysts who have access to Tableau Server and possess basic web navigation skills. No prior experience with Tableau Server is required.

About this title

About the Authors

Patrick Sarsfield is a senior data visualization consultant at Lovelytics. He is a Tableau Certified Associate Consultant, was a Tableau Public Featured Author in 2020, and is a multiple-time Tableau “Viz of the Day” winner.

Brandi Locker is a senior exploratory analytics consultant at Allstate Insurance Company. She is a certified Tableau Desktop Specialist and co-leads the North Texas Tableau User Group.

Edition details

• Publisher: Packt Publishing
• Publication date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1801071136
• ISBN 13: 9781801071130
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 362