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Mastering Tableau 2023

Mastering Tableau 2023

By : Marleen Meier
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Mastering Tableau 2023

Mastering Tableau 2023

4.7 (36)
By: Marleen Meier

Overview of this book

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, Prep, and Desktop, as well as up-to-date examples, this book will take you from mastering essential Tableau concepts to advance functionalities. A chapter on data governance has also been added. Throughout this book, you'll learn how to use Tableau Hyper files and Prep Builder to easily perform data preparation and handling, as well as complex joins, spatial joins, unions, and data blending tasks using practical examples. You'll also get to grips with executing data densification and explore other expert-level examples to help you with calculations, mapping, and visual design using Tableau extensions. Later chapters will teach you all 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, 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 2023 and be able to tackle common and advanced challenges in the BI domain.
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Formatting rules

The following formatting rules encompass fonts, lines, and bands. Fonts are, of course, an obvious formatting consideration. Lines and bands, however, may not be something you typically work with—but in Tableau, lines and bands should certainly be considered. This illustrates that data visualization is closely related to graphic design, where lines and bands play a much bigger role than they do in, for example, Excel, and that formatting considers much more than just the textual layout.

Keep the font choice simple

Typically, using one or two fonts on a dashboard is advisable. More fonts can create a confusing environment and interfere with readability.

Fonts chosen for titles should be thick and solid, while body fonts should be easy to read. In Tableau, choosing appropriate fonts is simple: select Format | Font to display the Format Font window to see and choose the fonts you like.

The Tableau fonts always work, like Tableau Bold, Tableau...

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