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作       者:Shweta Sankhe-Savale

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出版时间:2016-12-01

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Create beautiful data visualizations and interactive dashboards with Tableau About This Book Delve into the features and functionalities of Tableau from the ground up with this step-by-step guide that has over 50 "follow-me" recipes Build rich visualizations to effectively highlight the underlying trends and patterns in your data Build beautiful interactive dashboards and storyboards to stitch your visualizations together and tell a story Who This Book Is For This book is for anyone who wishes to use Tableau. It will be of use to both beginners who want to learn Tableau from scratch and to more seasoned users who simply want a quick reference guide. This book is a ready reckoner guide for you. The book will be such that both new & existing Tableau users who don’t know, or can’t recall how to perform different Tableau tasks can use the book and be benefited from it. What You Will Learn Get to grips with the Tableau workspace and terminologies and understand what data sources you can connect Learn to create basic charts like bar chart, stacked bar, pie chart, line chart, area chart, tree map & word cloud Go even further with more advanced visualizations such as scatter plot, box & whiskers plot, dual axis, bullet chart, Histograms, Maps, etc Use pre-defined calculation and change its scope and direction to affect outcome Learn to define Parameters and call them into parametric calculations that provide outcomes based on user inputs Build Dashboards and use Actions to link multiple sheets on the dashboard Connect to multiple data sources using Data Blending, Multiple Table Join within the same data source as well as across data sources, Custom SQL and learn to work with data Extracts Compute statistical trends, build forecasting models and use Reference lines for benchmarking In Detail Data is everywhere and everything is data! Visualization of data allows us to bring out the underlying trends and patterns inherent in the data and gain insights that enable faster and smarter decision making. Tableau is one of the fastest growing and industry leading Business Intelligence platforms that empowers business users to easily visualize their data and discover insights at the speed of thought. Tableau is a self-service BI platform designed to make data visualization and analysis as intuitive as possible. Creating visualizations with simple drag-and-drop, you can be up and running on Tableau in no time. Starting from the fundamentals such as getting familiarized with Tableau Desktop, connecting to common data sources and building standard charts; you will walk through the nitty gritty of Tableau such as creating dynamic analytics with parameters, blended data sources, and advanced calculations. You will also learn to group members into higher levels, sort the data in a specific order & filter out the unnecessary information. You will then create calculations in Tableau & understand the flexibility & power they have and go on to building story-boards and share your insights with others. Whether you are just getting started or whether you need a quick reference on a "how-to" question, This book is the perfect companion for you Style and approach This cookbook takes a step-by-step approach and the text systematically evolves to cover more involved functionalities. Every recipe includes illustrative screenshots which provide a detailed visual resource for each step.
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Tableau Cookbook – Recipes for Data Visualization

Table of Contents

Tableau Cookbook – Recipes for Data Visualization

Credits

About the Author

About the Reviewer

www.PacktPub.com

eBooks, discount offers, and more

Why subscribe?

Customer Feedback

Preface

What this book covers

What you need for this book

Who this book is for

Sections

Getting ready

How to do it…

How it works…

There's more…

See also

Conventions

Reader feedback

Customer support

Downloading the example code

Downloading the color images of this book

Errata

Piracy

Questions

1. Keep Calm and Say Hello to Tableau

Introduction

Starting with Tableau Desktop

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

Introduction to My Tableau Repository and connecting to the sample data source

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

Building our first visualization and understanding the Tableau workspace

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

Saving a Tableau workbook

Getting ready

How to do it...

2. Ready to Build Some Charts? Show Me!

Introduction

Building views manually

Getting ready

How to do it…

How it works…

Building views automatically

Getting ready

How to do it…

How it works…

Understanding Show Me!

Getting ready

How to do it…

How it works…

Creating a Text table

Getting ready

How to do it…

How it works…

Creating a Highlight table

Getting ready

How to do it…

How it works…

Creating a Heat map

Getting ready

How to do it…

How it works…

Creating a Bar chart

Getting ready

How to do it…

How it works…

Creating a Stacked Bar chart

How to do it…

How it works…

Creating a Pie chart

Getting ready

How to do it…

How it works…

Creating a Line chart

Getting ready

How to do it…

How it works…

Creating an Area chart

Getting ready

How to do it…

How it works…

Creating a Treemap

Getting ready

How to do it…

How it works…

Creating a Packed Bubble chart

Getting ready

How to do it…

How it works…

Creating a word cloud

Getting ready

How to do it…

How it works…

3. Hungry for More Charts? Dig In!

Introduction

Creating an Individual axes chart

Getting ready

How to do it…

How it works…

Creating a Blended axes chart

Getting ready

How to do it…

How it works…

Creating a Side by Side Bar chart

Getting ready

How to do it…

How it works…

Creating a Dual axes chart

Getting ready

How to do it…

How it works…

Creating a Combination chart

Getting ready

How to do it…

How it works…

Creating a Scatter plot

Getting ready

How to do it…

How it works…

Creating a Box and Whisker plot

Getting ready

How to do it…

How it works…

Creating a Gantt chart

Getting ready

How to do it…

How it works…

Creating Maps

Getting ready

How to do it…

How it works…

Using Background images

Getting ready

How to do it…

How it works…

There's more…

4. Slice and Dice – Grouping, Sorting, and Filtering Data

Introduction

Sorting our data

Getting ready

How to do it…

How it works…

Creating a custom hierarchy

Getting ready

How to do it…

How it works…

Grouping our data

Getting ready

How to do it…

How it works…

Creating bins to bucket our data

Getting ready

How to do it…

How it works…

Creating and using filters

Getting ready

How to do it…

How it works…

Creating and using sets

Getting ready

How to do it…

How it works…

Creating and using context filters

Getting ready

How to do it…

How it works…

5. Adding Flavor – Creating Calculated Fields

Introduction

Understanding how to create and use Calculations

Creating string calculations

Getting ready

How to do it…

How it works…

Creating arithmetic calculations

Getting ready

How to do it…

How it works…

Creating date calculations

Getting ready

How to do it…

How it works…

Creating logic calculations

Getting ready

How to do it…

How it works…

Using sets in calculations

Getting ready

How to do it…

How it works…

Understanding Table Calculations

Getting ready

How to do it…

How it works…

Understanding Level of Detail (LOD) Calculations

Getting ready

How to do it…

How it works…

Understanding INCLUDE LOD

Getting ready

How to do it…

How it works…

Understanding EXCLUDE LOD

Getting ready

How to do it…

How it works…

Understanding FIXED LOD

Getting ready

How to do it…

How it works…

Understanding how to create and use Parameters

Getting ready

How to do it…

How it works…

6. Serve It on a Dashboard!

Introduction

Combining multiple visualizations into a dashboard

Getting ready

How to do it…

How it works…

There's more...

Using the filter action

Getting ready

How to do it…

How it works…

Using the highlight action

Getting ready

How to do it…

How it works…

Using the URL action

Getting ready

How to do it…

How it works…

7. The Right MIX – Blending Multiple Data Sources

Introduction

Understanding Multiple Table Join within a single database

Getting ready

How to do it…

How it works…

Understanding Multiple Table Join across databases

Getting ready

How to do it…

How it works…

Understanding Data Blending

Getting ready

How to do it…

How it works…

Understanding and using Unions

Getting ready

How to do it…

How it works…

Using Custom SQL Query to fetch data

Getting ready

How to do it…

How it works…

Working with Tableau Extracts

Getting ready

How to do it…

How it works…

8. Garnish with Reference Lines, Trends, Forecasting, and Clustering

Introduction

Understanding how to create and use trend lines

Getting ready

How to do it…

How it works…

Understanding and using the forecasting functionality

Getting ready

How to do it…

How it works…

Understanding and using reference lines – the bullet chart

Getting ready

How to do it…

How it works…

Understanding how to perform clustering

Getting ready

How to do it…

How it works…

9. Bon Appétit! Tell a Story and Share It with others

Introduction

Understanding and using story points

Getting ready

How to do it…

How it works…

Saving our work as a packaged workbook

Getting ready

How to do it…

How it works…

Publishing our work to Tableau Server or Tableau Online

Getting ready

How to do it…

How it works…

10. Formatting in Tableau for Desserts

Introduction

Formatting across our entire workbook

Getting ready

How to do it…

How it works…

Formatting within a worksheet

Getting ready

How to do it…

How it works…

Using and formatting labels and annotations

Getting ready

How to do it…

How it works…

Using and formatting titles and captions

Getting ready

How to do it…

How it works…

Index

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