Tableau Simplified

Tableau has disrupted the world of business intelligence software with its revolutionary data visualization and analysis product. You can use Tableau to quickly analyse your data and discover interesting patterns in it.

Tableau Simplified is a simple and concise book that highlights Tableau's various functionalities and applications in data analysis and visualization.

This book is for you if:

• You have never heard of Tableau before and you are interested to know more about the product features and applications.
• You have a general idea about Tableau and you are curious to understand the range of capabilities that can be applied for business intelligence and data analysis.
• Gain an initial understanding about Tableau before progressing towards exploring advanced concepts and functionalities that are available in the product.

This book would cover the following aspects :

• Identify the various data sources that you can connect to from Tableau.
• Understand the various components of the Tableau workspace.
• Join data from multiple tables in a data source.
• Understand the data extract feature to generate subset from the data source.
• Create bar charts and other common data visualizations.
• Create filters for charts.
• Create calculated fields and LOD expressions.
• Create dashboards and stories to present a coherent data-driven narrative to the target audience.
• Publish Tableau workbooks, dashboards or stories to Tableau Server or Tableau Online platforms.

You can use this book as a reference guide to gain an initial understanding of Tableau and its capabilities before progressing towards exploring and applying advanced features in the product.