Название: Tableau Desktop Pocket Reference: Essential Features, Syntax, and Data Visualizations, 1st Edition
Автор: Ryan Sleeper
Издательство: O’Reilly Media, Inc.
Год: 2021
Страниц: 162
Язык: английский
Формат: epub
Размер: 10.1 MB

In a crowded field of data visualization and analytics tools, Tableau Desktop has emerged as the clear leader. This is partly due to its ease of use, but once you dive into Tableau's extensive feature set, you'll understand just how powerful and flexible this software can be for your business or organization. With this handy pocket reference, author Ryan Sleeper (Innovative Tableau) shows you how to translate the vast amounts of data into useful information. Tableau has done an amazing job of making valuable insights accessible to analysts and executives who would otherwise need to rely on IT. This book quickly guides you through Tableau Desktop's learning curve.

Tableau Prep Builder is drag-and-drop data engineering software that allows you to connect to various data sources and prepare them for use with Tableau Desktop or other software programs. With Tableau Prep Builder, you can combine, clean, aggregate, and/or pivot data before either saving it locally or publishing it to a central repository for others to use. Tableau Prep Conductor, included in Tableau’s Data Management add-on, allows you to schedule and automate the data engineering flows that are developed within Tableau Prep Builder.

Tableau Desktop is drag-and-drop analytics and data visualization software. With Tableau Desktop, you can connect to a wide variety of data sources, explore data of all sizes, create ad hoc analyses on the fly, combine multiple elements into cohesive dashboards for easier consumption, share views with others, and much more. Tableau Desktop is the focus of this book.

Tableau Public is a free version of Tableau Desktop that allows you to connect to a limited number of data source types such as Microsoft Excel and create public analyses. The catch with Tableau Public being free is you must save your work to the public web, where anybody can see it, making it unsuitable for proprietary data. That being said, Tableau Public is a great option for practicing Tableau Desktop and analyzing data sources outside the office or nonprotected company data.

You'll learn:

How to shape data for use with Tableau Desktop
How to create the most effective chart types
Core concepts including discrete versus continuous
Must-know technical features including filters, parameters, and sets
Key syntax for creating the most useful analyses
How to bring it all together with dashboards
And more!