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Getting Started with Tableau 2019.2

Getting Started with Tableau 2019.2

By : Tristan Guillevin
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Getting Started with Tableau 2019.2

Getting Started with Tableau 2019.2

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By: Tristan Guillevin

Overview of this book

Tableau is one of the leading data visualization tools and is regularly updated with new functionalities and features. The latest release, Tableau 2019.2, promises new and advanced features related to visual analytics, reporting, dashboarding, and a host of other data visualization aspects. Getting Started with Tableau 2019.2 will get you up to speed with these additional functionalities. The book starts by highlighting the new functionalities of Tableau 2019.2, providing concrete examples of how to use them. However, if you're new to Tableau, you won't have to worry as the book also covers the major aspects of Tableau with relevant examples. You'll learn how to connect to data, build a data source, visualize your data, build a dashboard, and even share data online. In the concluding chapters, you'll delve into advanced techniques such as creating a cross-database join and data blending. By the end of this book, you will be able to use Tableau effectively to create quick, cost-effective, and business-efficient Business Intelligence (BI) solutions.
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Index

Speaking Tableau

Rather than a big list of all the terms, let's go through the basic Tableau life cycle.

When you open Tableau Desktop, you start working on a Workbook. After you've finished working, you will save your work in a .twb or .twbx file. You can open multiple instances of Tableau, each of them being a different Workbook.

The first page you see when you open Tableau Desktop is the Start page. Here, you can connect to data, open recent workbooks, discover the Viz of the Week, and open your saved data sources quickly.

After choosing your connector (a Comma Separated Values (CSV) file, an Excel file, or a database on a server), Tableau opens the data source workplace. On this page, you create the data source by choosing tables (or sheets) and creating joins, unions, or other transformations. The following screenshot illustrates the Data Source workplace:

When you're done with the Data Source, you can start building a visualization in a Worksheet. Sheet 1 is your first...

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