Pro Tableau

Table of content Chapter 1: Introducing Visualization and Tableau * Why Visualization?* What is Visualization?* Positioning of Tableau* Tableau product lines* File types in Tableau*.twb*.twbx*.tds*.tdsx*.tde*.tbm Chapter 2: Working with Single and Multiple Data Sources * Desktop Architecture* Data Connection Page* Connect to a File* Excel* Open with legacy connection* Text* Microsoft Access* R data file (.rdata)* Connect to a Server* Microsoft SQL Server* MySQL* NoSQL Databases (MongoDB, Cassandra)* Metadata Grid* Using Data Extracts* All about Joins* Using Custom SQL* Using Data Blending Chapter 3: Simplifying and Sorting your Data * Filtering on dimensions and measures* Soring on single dimension - Primary sort* Sorting on more than one dimension - Secondary Sort* Slicing your data by date* Discrete dates* Continuous dates* Organizing your data* Groups* Hierarchies* Sets* Static sets* Dynamic sets* Difference between groups and sets Chapter 4: Measure Values and Measure Names * Using measure values and measure names in a view Chapter 5: Using Quick Table Calculations in Tableau * Running Total* Percent of Total* Percentile* Rank* Moving average* Year over Year Growth* Level Of Detail (LOD) calculations Chapter 6: Customizing your Data * String Calculations* Number Calculations* Date Calculations* Logical Calculations Chapter 7: Statistics * Descriptive Statistics* Sum* Average* Min* Max* Count* Count(distinct)* Median* Standard Deviation* Variance* Using the Analytics Pane* Constant Lines* Average Lines* Five magical number summary* Box and whisker plot* Trend Lines* Forecast Chapter 8: Chart Forms * Bar Chart* Pie chart* Line graph* Scatter Plot* Histogram* Heat Map* Tree Map* Highlight Table Chapter 9: Advance Visualization Methods * Waterfall Charts* Gantt View* Bullet GraphChapter 10: Dashboard and Stories * Creating an interactive dashboard* Adding Actions to your dashboard* Telling stories with data Chapter 11: Integration of R with Tableau * Functions such as (SCRIPT_INT(), SCRIPT_REAL(),SCRIPT_BOOL(), SCRIPT_STR())* Data Mining* Affinity Analysis* K-means Clustering