1. Keep Calm and Say Hello to Tableau
by Shweta Sankhe-Savale
Tableau Cookbook – Recipes for Data Visualization
- Tableau Cookbook – Recipes for Data Visualization
- Table of Contents
- Tableau Cookbook – Recipes for Data Visualization
- Credits
- About the Author
- About the Reviewer
- www.PacktPub.com
- Customer Feedback
- Preface
- 1. Keep Calm and Say Hello to Tableau
- 2. Ready to Build Some Charts? Show Me!
- Introduction
- Building views manually
- Building views automatically
- Understanding Show Me!
- Creating a Text table
- Creating a Highlight table
- Creating a Heat map
- Creating a Bar chart
- Creating a Stacked Bar chart
- Creating a Pie chart
- Creating a Line chart
- Creating an Area chart
- Creating a Treemap
- Creating a Packed Bubble chart
- Creating a word cloud
- 3. Hungry for More Charts? Dig In!
- 4. Slice and Dice – Grouping, Sorting, and Filtering Data
- 5. Adding Flavor – Creating Calculated Fields
- Introduction
- Understanding how to create and use Calculations
- Creating string calculations
- Creating arithmetic calculations
- Creating date calculations
- Creating logic calculations
- Using sets in calculations
- Understanding Table Calculations
- Understanding Level of Detail (LOD) Calculations
- Understanding INCLUDE LOD
- Understanding EXCLUDE LOD
- Understanding FIXED LOD
- Understanding how to create and use Parameters
- 6. Serve It on a Dashboard!
- 7. The Right MIX – Blending Multiple Data Sources
- 8. Garnish with Reference Lines, Trends, Forecasting, and Clustering
- 9. Bon Appétit! Tell a Story and Share It with others
- 10. Formatting in Tableau for Desserts
- Index
In this chapter, we will cover the following recipes:
- Starting with Tableau Desktop
- Introduction to My Tableau Repository and connecting to the sample data source
- Building our first visualization and understanding the Tableau workspace
- Saving a Tableau workbook
Earlier, in the preface, we saw the various products that are available under Tableau's product suite. The focus of this book will be on Tableau Desktop, the UI authoring tool of Tableau that will help us analyze and visualize our data. So, let's get started by familiarizing ourselves with Tableau Desktop.
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