Tableau 10.0 Best Practices

Key Features

• Quickly learn tips, tricks, and best practices about Tableau from Tableau masters
• Whether it is data blending or complex calculations, you can solve your problem with ease and confidence; no more searching for a help doc or waiting for support
• If you want to quickly master Tableau, then this book is for you

Book Description

Tableau has emerged as an industry leader in the field of data discovery and business analytic software solutions. While there is a lot of information on how to use the tool, most Tableau users are faced with the challenge on how it can be effectively used to derive meaningful business insights from the uncharted territory of data.

This book will give you useful tips from Tableau masters learned from years of experience working with Tableau. You’ll start by getting your data into Tableau, move on to generating progressively complex visualizations, and end with finishing touches and packaging your work for distribution.

Inside you will learn the exact steps required to solve complex real-life problems. Whether it is data blending or complex calculations, you can solve your problem with ease and confidence; no more searching for Help doc or waiting for support. This book will help you make the most of Tableau and become a Tableau expert.

What you will learn

• Connect to variety of data (cloud and local) and blend it in an efficient way for fast analytics
• Advanced calculations such as LOD calculations and Table calculations
• See advanced use cases of Parameter, Sorting, and Filters
• Get practical tips on how to format dashboards following the Zen of dashboard design
• See examples of a variety of visualizations such as cohort analysis, Jitters chart, and multiple small charts
• See the new features in Tableau 10—cross data source filter, worksheet as tooltip, cluster, and custom territory

About the Author

Jenny Zhang is a technology professional with 6+ years' experience of data and analytics and currently working at JW Plater as Business Analytics Manager. She is a data strategist and technologist, Tableau and Alteryx community advocate, blogger. She had a series of blog posts about Tableau best practices at http://jennyxiaozhang.com/tag/tableau/.

Jenny is also passion about Big data. She had a series of blog posts about Big Data, NoSQL, Spark, Hadoop, and Yarn at http://jennyxiaozhang.com/category/big-data/.

Personal Site: www.jennyxiaozhang.com

LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/jennyxiaozhang

Table of Contents

1. Data Extraction
2. Data Blending
3. Calculation/Parameter
4. Sort and Filter
5. Formatting
6. Visualization
7. Dashboard
8. Performance
9. Permission
10. New features in Tableau 10