Pro Tableau

A Step-by-Step Guide

Seema Acharya, Subhashini Chellappan

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English

APress
24 December 2016

Database programming; Database design & theory

Leverage the power of visualization in business intelligence and data science to make quicker and better decisions. Use statistics and data mining to make compelling and interactive dashboards. This book will help those familiar with Tableau software chart their journey to being a visualization expert.

Pro Tableau demonstrates the power of visual analytics and teaches you how to:

Connect to various data sources such as spreadsheets, text files, relational databases (Microsoft SQL Server, MySQL, etc.), non-relational databases (NoSQL such as MongoDB, Cassandra), R data files, etc.

Write your own custom SQL, etc.

Perform statistical analysis in Tableau using R

Use a multitude of charts (pie, bar, stacked bar, line, scatter plots, dual axis, histograms, heat maps, tree maps, highlight tables, box and whisker, etc.)

What you’ll learn

Connect to various data sources such as relational databases (Microsoft SQL Server, MySQL), non-relational databases (NoSQL such as MongoDB, Cassandra), write your own custom SQL, join and blend data sources, etc.

Leverage table calculations (moving average, year over year growth, LOD (Level of Detail), etc.

Integrate Tableau with R

Tell a compelling story with data by creating highly interactive dashboards

Who this book is for

All levels of IT professionals, from executives responsible for determining IT strategies to systems administrators, to data analysts, to decision makers responsible for driving strategic initiatives, etc. The book will help those familiar with Tableau software chart their journey to a visualization expert.

By: Seema Acharya, Subhashini Chellappan
Imprint: APress
Country of Publication: United States
Edition: 1st ed.
Dimensions: Height: 254mm, Width: 178mm, Spine: 44mm
Weight: 1.628kg
ISBN: 9781484223512
ISBN 10: 1484223519
Pages: 845
Publication Date: 24 December 2016
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Chapter 1: Introducing Visualization and Tableau.- Chapter 2: Working with Single and Multiple Data Sources.- Chapter 3: Simplifying and sorting your data.- Chapter 4: Measure Values and Measure Names.- Chapter 5: Using Quick Table Calculations in Tableau.- Chapter 6: Customizing your data.- Chapter 7: Statistics.- Chapter 8: Chart Forms.- Chapter 9: Advance Visualization Methods.- Chapter 10:Dashboard and Stories.- Chapter 11:Integration of R with Tableau.

Seema Acharya is a Lead Principal with the Education, Training and Assessment department of Infosys Limited. She is an educator by choice and vocation, and has rich experience in both academia and the software industry. She is also the author of the books, “Fundamentals of Business Analytics”, ISBN: 978-81-265-3203-2, publisher – Wiley India and “Big Data and Analytics”, ISBN: 9788126554782, publisher – Wiley India. She has co-authored a paper on “Collaborative Engineering Competency Development” for ASEE (American Society for Engineering Education). She holds the patent on “Method and system for automatically generating questions for a programming language”. Her areas of interest and expertise are centered on Business Intelligence, Big Data and Analytics technologies such as Data Warehousing, Data Mining, Data Analytics, Text Mining and Data Visualisation. Subhashini Chellappan is a Software Engineering Team Lead with the talent division of Accenture. She has rich experience in both academia and the software industry.She has published couple of papers in various Journals and Conferences.Her areas of interest and expertise are centered on Business Intelligence, Big Data and Analytics technologies such as Hadoop, NoSQL Databases, Spark and Machine Learning.