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by Tristan Guillevin
Getting Started with Tableau 2018.x
Title Page
Copyright and Credits
Getting Started with Tableau 2018.x
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Contributors
About the author
About the reviewers
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Preface
Disclaimer
Who this book is for
What this book covers
To get the most out of this book
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Conventions used
Get in touch
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Catching Up with Tableau 2018
Tableau Desktop
Data Source improvements
Normalized extract (2018.3)
Spatial join (2018.2)
Other Data Source improvements
Visualization improvements
Density Mark (2018.3)
Step and jump lines (2018.1)
Worksheet transparency (2018.3)
Dual Axis mapping (2018.1)
Nested sort (2018.2)
Hierarchy filtering (2018.1)
Other improvements
Dashboard improvements
Extensions (2018.2)
Dashboard navigation button (2018.3)
Navigation action (2018.3)
The Change Set Values action (2018.3)
Automatic Mobile layouts (2018.2)
Grids (2018.2)
Tableau Server/Online
Interacting
Mixed content (2018.3)
Mobile preview (2018.3)
Comments (2018.2)
Web authoring
Connecting to data (2018.1)
Other web authoring improvements
Administration
Tableau Service Manager (2018.2)
Other administrative improvements
Summary
The Tableau Core
The different Tableau products
Speaking Tableau
Dimension and Measure
Blue and green – Discrete and Continuous
The toolbar options
Live or Extract
Live
Extract
Summary
A First Dashboard and Exploration
Connect to data
Create a first set of visualizations
Sales and profit by sub-categories – bar chart
Profit evolution – line chart
Profit by state – filled map
Building your first Dashboard
Assembling the Dashboard
Adding interactivity to your Dashboard
Using Tableau for data exploration
Summary
Connect to Data and Simple Transformations
Data connection
Connecting to a file
Excel files
Text files 
Connecting to a server
Tableau Server/Online
Common servers (MS SQL Server, Oracle, Redshift, MySQL)
Other servers
Spatial files
Join data easily
The Join principle
Join requirements and types
Join risks
Hands-on – a first simple Join 
Union your data
A Union example
Simple transformations
Data Interpreter
Splitting a column
Pivot
Summary
Build an Efficient Data Source
Understanding the Data Source
Data Sources elements
Data types
Generated information
Data Source options
Refresh a Data Source and deal with changes
How to refresh a Data Source
Deal with changes
Trivial cases
A used field is removed or renamed
Field customization and default properties
Field customization and options
Default properties
Comment
Color
Shape
Sort
Number format
Aggregation and total using
Hierarchies
Groups, Sets, and Bins
Groups
Sets
Bins
Summary
Design Insightful Visualizations - Part 1
Creating a visualization the automatic and manual way
Build a visualization the automatic way
Double-click
Show Me
Build a visualization the manual way
 The different Mark types
Bar
Line
Area
Square
Circle
Shapes
Text 
Map
Pie
Gantt Bar
Polygon
Density
Mark properties
Color
Size
Label (Text)
Detail
Tooltip
Shape
Path
Angle
Summary
Design Insightful Visualizations - Part 2
Using multiple Measures
Dual Axis
Measure Names and Measure Values
Filters
Filtering a continuous field
Filter a discrete field
General
Wildcard
Condition
Top
Quick filters
Filter hierarchy 
Context
Global filter hierarchy
Pages
Page basics
Guided tutorial with Pages
Worksheet options and format
Pill options
Worksheet menu options
View options
Format
Summary
Create Powerful Dashboards and Stories
Before we start
Dashboard basics
How to build a Dashboard
Dashboard pane
Layout pane
Dashboard objects
Dashboard options
Tiled, Floating, and Container Layouts
Tiled
Floating
Containers
A step-by-step guide to building a Dashboard with Containers
Dashboard Actions
Filter
Highlight
Go to URL
Go to Sheet
Change Set Values
Creating a Story
How to build a Story
Story options
Summary
Publish and Interact in Tableau Server
Introduction to Tableau Server
Tableau Server contents
Publishing and modifying contents
Why and how to publish a data source
Modifying a published Data Source
Publishing a Workbook
Step-by-step guide – publishing and modifying your work
Interacting with published Contents
Interacting with published Workbooks
Custom Views
Alert
Subscribe
Download
Comment
Web Authoring
Device layout
Creating a Device layout
Mobile layout preview 
Summary
An Introduction to Calculations
Calculated Field basics
Creating a Calculated Field
To aggregate or not to aggregate fields?
Using calculation functions
Example – highlight values
Advanced functions
Table Calculation functions
Table function basics
Quick Table Calculation
Hands-on Table Calculation functions
Level of Detail
LOD function basics
Include and Exclude
Fixed
Hands-on - use a LOD function
Summary
Analytics and Parameters
Using built-in Analytics tools
The Summarize tab
Constant Line
Average Line
Median with Quartiles
Box Plot
Totals
The Model tab
Average or median with a confidence interval
Trend Line
Forecast
Cluster
The Custom tab
How to work with Parameters
Creating a Parameter
Using a Parameter
Creating a year-on-year comparator
Summary
Advanced Data Connections
Cross-database Join
Data-blending
Wildcard Union
Summary
Deal with Security
Tableau Server security
User Filters
Row-level filters
Summary
How to Keep Growing Your Skills
The Tableau Community
Tableau Public
Community projects
Ambassadors, Zen Masters, and Iron Viz
Ambassadors
Zen Masters
Iron Viz
Summary
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