Creating Data Stories with Tableau Public电子书

Creating Data Stories with Tableau Public

Table of Contents

Creating Data Stories with Tableau Public

Credits

About the Author

Acknowledgments

About the Author

About the Reviewer

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Preface

What this book covers

What you need for this book

Who this book is for

Conventions

Reader feedback

Customer support

Downloading the example code

Downloading the color images of this book

Errata

Piracy

Questions

1. Getting Started with Tableau Public

A Tableau Public overview

Telling your story with Tableau Public

Installing Tableau Public

Exploring Tableau Public

Connecting to data

Opening files and creating your profile

Discover

Exploring the visualizations of other authors

Summary

2. Tableau Public Interface Features

Touring the Tableau Public user interface

The side bar

The Data pane

Visual cues

The Analytics pane

Menus and toolbars

Canvas and Column/Row shelves

Using the Columns and Rows shelves

Using the Marks card

The Filters and Pages shelves

The workspace control tabs of Tableau Public

The Show Me tool

Summary

3. Connecting to Data

Public data

Tables and databases

The data sources that Tableau Public connects to

The databases, tables, dimensions, facts, field formats and conventions

Connecting to the data in Tableau Public

The data source user interface

Using the data interpreter

Pivoting data

Filtering data sources

Joining tables

Connecting to web-based data sources

Summary

4. Visualization – Tips and Types

An overview of the development lifecycle

Ten visualization tips

The perception of visual clues

Using the Show Me tool to create charts

Answering questions using Show Me chart types

About dimensions and measures

Continuous and discrete dimensions and measures

Selecting aggregation types for measures

Swapping and sorting

Types of visualization

Line graphs

Continuous versus discrete date-time elements

Tables

Bar charts

Geographic maps

Scatter plots

Pie charts

Using groups and sets

Summary

5. Calculations

Creating calculated fields

Editing calculated fields

Types of calculations

The number functions

The date functions

Type conversions

The string functions

The aggregate functions

The logic functions

Blending data sources

Summary

6. Level of Detail and Table Calculations

About data sources

Creating quick table calculations

Changing over time

Compute using

Moving average

Editing table calculations

Manually editing table calculations

Ranking

Window versus running functions

A note on addressing

The level of detail calculations

A FIXED LOD calculation

The INCLUDE and nested LOD calculations

Summary

7. Dashboard Design and Styling

The dashboard design process

Best practices for dashboard design

Creating a dashboard

The dashboard tab interface

Layout objects

Setting the size of dashboard elements

Sizing the dashboard

Building a dashboard

Summary

8. Filters and Actions

Adding and using Filters

Adding Filters to worksheets

Adding Quick Filters to a dashboard

Moving the Quick Filter

Filtering across Data sources with parameters

Using parameters as Filters

Modifying titles

Filtering across multiple Data sources with parameters

Actions

URL actions

Summary

9. Publishing Your Work

Saving your work and logging in to Tableau Public

Opening work from the Cloud

Managing your profile

Viewing your work online

Managing workbook details

Summary

Index