Tableau For Dummies
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Tableau For Dummies brings order to the chaotic world of data. Understanding your data and organizing it into formats and visualizations that make sense to you are crucial to making a real impact on your business with the information that's already at your fingertips. This easy-to-use reference explores the user interface, and guides you through the process of connecting your data sources to the software. Additionally, this approachable, yet comprehensive text shows you how to use graphs, charts, and other images to bring visual interest to your data, how to create dashboards from multiple data sources, and how to export the visualizations that you have developed into multiple formats that translate into positive change for your business.
The mission of Tableau Software is to grant you access to data that, when put into action, will help you build your company. Learning to use the data available to you helps you make informed, grounded business decisions that can spell success for your company.
Tableau For Dummies is a step-by-step resource that helps you make sense of the data landscape—and put your data to work in support of your business.
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Molly Monsey. (2015). Tableau For Dummies. Wiley.
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Molly Monsey joined Tableau in 2009 as a technical product consultant. She and Paul Sochan work together to lead the Tableau training team. Today she recruits, trains, and supports instructors who educate Tableau users all over the world. Paul Sochan joined Tableau in 2010 and serves as the Senior Director of Global Education Services. The training team he built with Molly Monsey develops all Tableau training offerings. Paul has been in the Business Intelligence space since 1994.
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- Make your data work for you!
Tableau For Dummies brings order to the chaotic world of data. Understanding your data and organizing it into formats and visualizations that make sense to you are crucial to making a real impact on your business with the information that's already at your fingertips. This easy-to-use reference explores the user interface, and guides you through the process of connecting your data sources to the software. Additionally, this approachable, yet comprehensive text shows you how to use graphs, charts, and other images to bring visual interest to your data, how to create dashboards from multiple data sources, and how to export the visualizations that you have developed into multiple formats that translate into positive change for your business.
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The mission of Tableau Software is to grant you access to data that, when put into action, will help you build your company. Learning to use the data available to you helps you make informed, grounded business decisions that can spell success for your company.
- Navigate the user interface to efficiently access the features you need
- Connect to various spreadsheets, databases, and other data sources to create a multi-dimensional snapshot of your business
- Develop visualizations with easy to use drag and drop features
- Start building your data with templates and sample workbooks to spark your creativity and help you organize your information
Tableau For Dummies is a step-by-step resource that helps you make sense of the data landscape—and put your data to work in support of your business.
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Introduction 1
About This Book 1
Part I: Getting Started with Tableau Desktop 1
Part II: Bringing in Data 2
Part III: Analyzing Data 2
Part IV: Publishing and Sharing 2
Part V: Advancing to a Higher Level 2
Part VI: The Part of Tens 2
Conventions Used in This Book 2
Foolish Assumptions 3
Icons Used in This Book 3
Beyond the Book 4
Where to Go from Here 4
Part I: Getting Started with Tableau Desktop 5
Chapter 1: A Brief Introduction to Tableau Desktop 7
Starting with Tableau 7
Downloading the Tableau trial 8
Installing the trial software 8
Looking at the Tableau Workspace 10
Starting Tableau 10
Viewing a sample workbook or data source 11
Seeing what Tableau can really do 14
Chapter 2: Seeing What You Can Do with Tableau 17
Analyzing Data 17
Looking back at data analysis 17
Connecting to your data in Tableau 18
Understanding Tableau worksheets 21
Starting to analyze data 23
Enhancing the analysis 24
Creating Dashboards 30
Telling the Story 33
Chapter 3: Understanding the Basics 35
Getting to Know the Tableau Desktop Environment 35
Looking at the Tableau Start page 36
Understanding the Data Source Page 37
Using worksheets to explore data 38
Getting to know the Dashboard workspace 40
Understanding the Story workspace 42
Connecting to Your Data 43
Editing your data source 43
Replacing a data source 46
Working with Dimensions and Measures 49
Understanding dimensions 49
Understanding measures 50
Choosing Chart Types 51
Modifying Your View 54
Part II: Bringing in Data 57
Chapter 4: Understanding Data Connections 59
Understanding Data Sources 59
Considering how data is stored 59
Using file-based data sources 61
Understanding Different Editions of Tableau Desktop 61
Considering Live Data versus Data Extracts 62
Chapter 5: Connecting to Data 67
Preparing Your Data 67
Using the data preparation features 68
Targeting data sources for manual corrections 70
Establishing a Connection to Your Data Source 71
Keeping Your Data Fresh 73
Chapter 6: Visualizing Data 75
Using the Shelves and Cards 75
The Columns shelf 76
The Rows shelf 78
Using a quick filter to exclude data 80
The Filters shelf 84
Pages shelf 88
Marks card 90
Modifying the View 93
Fitting the space 93
Adding annotations 94
Adding mark labels 96
Part III: Analyzing Data 97
Chapter 7: Understanding the Tableau Desktop Environment 99
Looking at the Menus 99
File menu 100
Data menu 101
Worksheet menu 103
Dashboard menu 104
Story menu 105
Analysis menu 105
Map menu 108
Format menu 108
Server menu 109
Window menu 111
Help menu 112
Making Use of the Toolbar 113
Organizing Sheets 115
Chapter 8: Considering Data Display Options 119
Using Show Me 119
Understanding the Chart Options in Show Me 120
Area charts (continuous) 120
Area charts (discrete) 121
Box-and-whisker plot 121
Bullet graphs 123
Circle views 123
Dual combination 124
Dual lines 124
Filled maps 126
Gantt 126
Heat maps 127
Highlight tables 127
Histogram 128
Horizontal bars 128
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