Build, design, and improve advanced business intelligence solutions using Tableau's newest updates, including new Tableau Desktop, Tableau Prep Builder, Tableau Server and AI-powered features.
Key Features
- Master new Tableau 2026 features to solve real-world analytics challenges
- Learn how to use AI-powered features in Tableau
- How to manage Data Governance and secure high data quality
Book Description
This edition of the bestselling Tableau guide will teach you how to leverage Tableau's newest features and offerings in various paradigms of the BI domain. Updated with fresh topics, including the newest features in Tableau Server, Tableau Prep Builder, and Desktop, and up-to-date examples, this book will take you from mastering essential Tableau concepts to advanced functionalities. A chapter on AI-powered analytics has also been added. Throughout this book, you'll learn how to use Tableau Prep Builder to easily perform data preparation and handling, as well as complex joins, spatial joins and unions, using practical examples. You'll get to grips with OData or Google BigQuery, executing data densification and exploring other expert-level examples to help you with calculations, mappings, and visual designs. Later chapters will teach you all about improving dashboard performance, Tableau Server, Tableau exchange, Data Governance and AI-powered features.. Finally, you'll cover advanced use cases, such as self-service analysis, time series analysis, geo-spatial analysis, and how to connect Tableau to Python and R to implement programming functionalities within Tableau. By the end of this book, you'll have mastered Tableau 2026 and be able to tackle common and advanced challenges in the BI domain.
What you will learn
- Learn Tableau components, such as calculated fields and LOD expressions
- Master Tableau Prep Builder and its core features
- Use Python and R for data analytics
- Explore Tableau Exchange with accelerators, extensions, and connectors
- Interact with Tableau Server to understand its functionalities
- Study advanced visualizations and dashboard creation techniques
- Refresh skills in self-service, time-series, and geospatial analytics
- Understand the importance of data governance and how to apply it
- Discover the AI-powered features available in Tableau 2026
Who this book is for
This book is designed for business analysts, business intelligence professionals, and data analysts who want to master Tableau to solve a range of data science and business intelligence problems. Prior exposure to Tableau will help you get to grips with the features more quickly, but it's not a prerequisite.
