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Creating Data Stories with Tableau Public

Creating Data Stories with Tableau Public

By : Ohmann
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Creating Data Stories with Tableau Public

Creating Data Stories with Tableau Public

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By: Ohmann

Overview of this book

Tableau Public is a very useful tool in anyone's data reporting toolbox that allows authors to add an interactive data element to any article. It allows investigative journalists and bloggers to tell a “data story”, allowing others to explore your data visualization. The relative ease of Tableau Public visualization creation allows data stories to be developed rapidly. It allows readers to explore data associations in multiple-sourced public data, and uses state-of-the-art dashboard and chart graphics to immerse the users in an interactive experience. This book offers investigative journalists, bloggers, and other data story tellers a rich discussion of visualization creation topics, features, and functions. This book allows data story tellers to quickly gain confidence in understanding and expanding their visualization-creation knowledge, and allows them to quickly create interesting, interactive data visualizations to bring a richness and vibrancy to complex articles. The book takes you from basic concepts in visualization creation, like connecting to data sources, cleansing data, chart types, common functions, map creation, and publishing to the Web, to more advanced functions. It is a great overview and reference guide for beginner to intermediate Tableau Public data story tellers, and covers creation of Tableau Public visualizations of varying complexities.
Table of Contents (11 chapters)
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Preface
Preface
What this book covers
What you need for this book
Who this book is for
Conventions
Reader feedback
Customer support
Free Chapter
1
1. Getting Started with Tableau Public
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1. Getting Started with Tableau Public
A Tableau Public overview
Telling your story with Tableau Public
Installing Tableau Public
Opening files and creating your profile
Discover
Exploring the visualizations of other authors
Summary
2
2. Tableau Public Interface Features
2. Tableau Public Interface Features
Touring the Tableau Public user interface
Using the Marks card
The Show Me tool
Summary
3
3. Connecting to Data
3. Connecting to Data
Public data
Tables and databases
The data sources that Tableau Public connects to
The databases, tables, dimensions, facts, field formats and conventions
Connecting to the data in Tableau Public
Summary
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4. Visualization – Tips and Types
4. Visualization – Tips and Types
An overview of the development lifecycle
Ten visualization tips
The perception of visual clues
Using the Show Me tool to create charts
Answering questions using Show Me chart types
Types of visualization
Summary
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5. Calculations
5. Calculations
Creating calculated fields
Types of calculations
The number functions
The date functions
Type conversions
The string functions
The aggregate functions
The logic functions
Blending data sources
Summary
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6. Level of Detail and Table Calculations
6. Level of Detail and Table Calculations
About data sources
Creating quick table calculations
Changing over time
Compute using
Manually editing table calculations
Ranking
Window versus running functions
The level of detail calculations
Summary
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7. Dashboard Design and Styling
7. Dashboard Design and Styling
The dashboard design process
Best practices for dashboard design
Creating a dashboard
The dashboard tab interface
Setting the size of dashboard elements
Summary
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8. Filters and Actions
8. Filters and Actions
Adding and using Filters
Filtering across Data sources with parameters
Actions
URL actions
Summary
9
9. Publishing Your Work
9. Publishing Your Work
Saving your work and logging in to Tableau Public
Opening work from the Cloud
Managing your profile
Viewing your work online
Managing workbook details
Summary
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Index
Index

Opening files and creating your profile

You can open the files that you create in Tableau Public by clicking on the Open from Tableau Public link. When you click on the link, Tableau Public will prompt you to log in with the e-mail address that you have used to create your account, as shown in the following screenshot:

Opening files and creating your profile

When you enter your e-mail and password, Tableau Public will verify it. Then, you will be able to select the file that you would like to open.

The list of files includes the names, modification dates, and size of the workbooks that you have saved in Tableau Public. It also includes the ability for you to search by entering a string of text.

When you find the workbook that you would like to open, click on Open, and then the most recently saved version will open in Tableau Public on your computer, as shown in the following screenshot:

Opening files and creating your profile

If you have not created an account, click on the link at the bottom of the screen that says Create one now for free.

The Create a Profile screen requires you to enter information in several fields, as shown in the following screenshot:

Opening files and creating your profile

Now, let's look at each of these fields:

  • Name: Your Name will be displayed in your profile. You can edit this later if you want.
  • Your Email Address is the identifier that you will use to log in to Tableau Public.
  • Choose a Password, which must consist of at least six characters.
  • Confirm your password.
  • Prove You're Not a Robot. A CAPTCHA is generated for you to verify that you're not a robot when you click on it.
  • Review the Legal requirements and agree to the terms of service.
  • Click on Go to My Profile to complete the creation of your profile.

When you click on to Go to My Profile, your web browser will open your new profile page on Tableau Public. This is a page that displays information that you enter about yourself and your interests as well as a photograph of your choosing and links to other websites with which you're affiliated.

Your profile page also displays and allows you to manage your Tableau Public workbooks. We will discuss the profile in greater detail in Chapter 9, Publishing Your Work.

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