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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

Refreshing a data source and dealing with changes

Data lives and changes. Any analysis tool, such as Tableau, needs to allow users to refresh data and deal with changes as easily as possible.

Note

In this section, we won't talk about the published data source on Tableau Server. The way in which to refresh or modify a published data source is different and is explained in more detail in Chapter 8, Publishing and Interacting in Tableau Server.

The following section describes how to refresh a data source.

How to refresh a data source

Refreshing a data source is simple for both Live and Extract data sources.

For a Live connection, right-click on the data source and click on Refresh—that's it!

For an Extract, clicking on Refresh won't work because the extracted data (in the hyper file) hasn't changed. Remember that when you create an Extract, you create a copy of your dataset. To refresh an Extract data source, you first need to refresh the extracted data. To do so, right...

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