Empower yourself by designing interactive dashboards in Tableau. This book includes downloadable data files and colored images, and hands-on exercises to help you master Tableau from scratch..
Key Features:
- In-depth, end-to-end knowledge on Tableau Desktop
- 150+ step-by-step exercises to follow along
- Covers data load, relationships, joins, and visualization techniques
- Deep dive into Calculations, LODs, Table Calculations, and Functions
- Includes new features of Tableau 2023.1
Step-by-Step Guide to Learning Tableau
Dashboarding with Tableau explains how to load, transform, and combine data, and how to build powerful visualizations. The book begins with the basics of Tableau and gradually advances into deeper Business Intelligence concepts. You will learn how to work with dimensions, measures, dates, filters, parameters, and advanced calculations.
This book also illustrates how to build a wide range of visualizations and how to assemble them into fully interactive dashboards. Starting with foundational skills, it guides you all the way to advanced concepts used by BI professionals.
Who This Book Is For
This book is ideal for aspiring Tableau developers, BI analysts, data explorers, and anyone seeking deeper insights through data. No prior knowledge of Tableau or advanced IT concepts is required. Basic familiarity with Microsoft Excel will be helpful.
Table of contents
- Getting Started
- The Data Pane
- Data Transformation
- Combining Data
- Calculations in Tableau
- Table and LOD Calculations
- Date Functions
- Filters and Parameters
- Sorting
- Groups, Sets and Bins
- Maps
- Visualization Part - 1
- Visualization Part - 2
- Dashboards
