Learning Tableau 2020, 4th Edition
- Length: 576 pages
- Edition: 4
- Language: English
- Publisher: Packt Publishing
- Publication Date: 2020-08-28
- ISBN-10: 1800200366
- ISBN-13: 9781800200364
- Sales Rank: #0 (See Top 100 Books)
Gain a solid foundation to learn Tableau, and develop the skills and abilities required for an advanced mastery of the tool. Whether you’re new to Tableau or have been using it for years, you will benefit from this book.
Key Features
- Explore all the latest Tableau 2020 features and redefine business analytics for your organization
- Get to grips with visualizing data and creating interactive dashboards to gain meaningful insights
- Learn how to implement effective data storytelling to redefine how your business leverages data and makes decisions
Book Description
Tableau makes it easy, intuitive, and fun to analyze data, receive instant visual feedback with every action, and ask questions to uncover insights in a natural flow of thought and interaction. This book strengthens your command of Tableau fundamentals and builds on advanced topics.
Learning Tableau starts by taking you through the foundational principles of Tableau. It then demonstrates various types of connections and how to work with metadata. It teaches you to use a wide variety of visualizations to analyze and communicate the data, and introduces you to calculations and parameters. The book then takes an in-depth look at level of detail (LOD) expressions and uses them to solve complex data challenges. It also shows how to use table calculations, extend and alter default visualizations, build interactive dashboards, and master the art of telling stories with data.
This Tableau book will introduce you to visual statistical analytics capabilities, create different types of visualizations and dynamic dashboards for rich user experiences. It then moves on to maps and geospatial visualization, and the new Data Model capabilities introduced in Tableau 2020.2. You will further use Tableau Prep’s ability to clean and structure data and share the stories contained in your data.
By the end of this book, you will be proficient in implementing the powerful features of Tableau 2020 for decision-making.
What you will learn
- Develop stunning visualizations to explain complex data with clarity
- Explore exciting new Data Model capabilities
- Connect to various data sources to bring all your data together
- Leverage Tableau Prep Builder’s amazing capabilities for data cleaning and structuring
- Create and use calculations to solve problems and enrich the analytics
- Master advanced topics such as sets, LOD calculations, and much more
- Enable smart decisions with data clustering, distribution, and forecasting
- Share your data stories to build a culture of trust and action
Who This Book Is For
This Tableau book is for anyone who wants to understand data. If you’re new to Tableau, don’t worry. This book will simplify Tableau for beginners to build on the foundations to help you understand how Tableau really works and then builds on that knowledge with practical examples before moving on to advanced techniques.
Having a bit of background with data will help, but you don’t need to know scripting, SQL or database structures.
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