From the eBook - Third edition.
Cover; Title Page; Copyright and Credits; About Packt; Contributors; Table of Contents; Preface; Section 1: Tableau Foundations; Chapter 1: Taking Off with Tableau; The cycle of analytics; Connecting to data; Foundations for building visualizations; Measures and dimensions; Discrete and continuous fields; Discrete fields; Continuous fields; Visualizing data; Bar charts; Iterations of bar charts for deeper analysis; Line charts; Iterations of line charts for deeper analysis; Geographic visualizations; Filled maps; Symbol maps; Density maps; Using Show Me
Putting everything together in a dashboardThe Dashboard interface; Building your dashboard; Summary; Chapter 2: Working with Data in Tableau; The Tableau paradigm; A simple example; Connecting to data; Connecting to data in a file; Connecting to data on a server; Connecting to data in the cloud; Shortcuts for connecting to data; Managing data source metadata; Working with extracts instead of live connections; Creating extracts; Using extracts; Performance; Portability and security; When to use an extract; Tableau file types; Joins and blends; Joining tables; Cross database joins
Blending data sourcesA blending example; Filtering data; Filtering discrete (blue) fields; Filtering continuous (green) fields; Filtering dates; Other filtering options; Summary; Chapter 3: Venturing on to Advanced Visualizations; Comparing values; Bar charts; Bar chart variations; Bullet chart
comparing to a goal, target, or threshold; Bar-in-bar chart; Highlighting categories of interest; Visualizing dates and times; Date parts, date values, and exact dates; Variations of date and time visualizations; Gantt Charts; Relating parts of the data to the whole; Stacked bars; Treemaps
Area chartsPie charts; Visualizing distributions; Circle charts; Jittering; Box and whisker plots; Histograms; Visualizing multiple axes to compare different measures; Scatterplot; Dual axis and combination charts; Summary; Section 2: Leveraging the Full Power of Tableau; Chapter 4: Starting an Adventure with Calculations; Introduction to calculations; Creating and editing calculations; Additional functions and operators; Four main types of calculations; Example data; Row-level calculations; Aggregate-level calculations; Why the row-level/aggregate-level difference matters
Level of detail calculationsLevel of detail syntax; Level of detail types; FIXED; INCLUDE; EXCLUDE; Level of detail example; Parameters; Creating parameters; Practical examples of calculations and parameters; Fixing data issues; Extending the data; Enhancing user experience, analysis, and visualizations; Ad hoc calculations; Performance considerations; Summary; Chapter 5: Diving Deep with Table Calculations; An overview of Table Calculations; Creating and editing Table Calculations; Quick Table Calculations; Relative versus fixed; Scope and direction; Working with scope and direction
