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Mastering Tableau 2021

Mastering Tableau 2021

By : Marleen Meier, David Baldwin
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Mastering Tableau 2021

Mastering Tableau 2021

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By: Marleen Meier, David Baldwin

Overview of this book

Tableau is one of the leading business intelligence (BI) tools that can help you solve data analysis challenges. With this book, you will master Tableau's features and offerings in various paradigms of the BI domain. Updated with fresh topics including Quick Level of Detail expressions, the newest Tableau Server features, Einstein Discovery, and more, this book covers essential Tableau concepts and advanced functionalities. Leveraging Tableau Hyper files and using Prep Builder, you’ll be able to perform data preparation and handling easily. You’ll gear up to perform complex joins, spatial joins, unions, and data blending tasks using practical examples. Next, you’ll learn how to execute data densification and further explore expert-level examples to help you with calculations, mapping, and visual design using Tableau extensions. You’ll also learn about improving dashboard performance, connecting to Tableau Server and understanding data visualization with examples. Finally, you'll cover advanced use cases such as self-service analysis, time series analysis, and geo-spatial analysis, and connect Tableau to Python and R to implement programming functionalities within it. By the end of this Tableau book, you’ll have mastered the advanced offerings of Tableau 2021 and be able to tackle common and advanced challenges in the BI domain.
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Index

Application of functions

So far, we have covered the first of our two major questions: What is the function? Now we will proceed to the next question: How is the function applied?

Let's try to understand that question via the following three options, which are all applications of the INDEX function:

One Application of INDEX()

Another Application…

...and Another

The INDEX function is used in each of these three screenshots; however, it is applied differently in each. The first and second screenshots both display 1, 2, and 3, but differ directionally. The third screenshot ranges from 1 to 9. So, how is INDEX being applied in each case?

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