Tableau: Creating Interactive Data Visualizations

Illustrate your data in a more interactive way by implementing data visualization principles and creating visual stories using Tableau.

Paperback: 645 pages.

What You Will Learn:

• Customize your designs to meet the needs of your business using Tableau
• Use Tableau to prototype, develop, and deploy the final dashboard
• Create filled maps and use any shape file
• Discover features of Tableau Public, from basic to advanced
• Build geographic maps to bring context to data
• Create filters and actions to allow greater interactivity to Tableau Public visualizations and dashboards
• Publish and embed Tableau visualizations and dashboards in articles

Book Description:

With increasing interest for data visualization in the media, businesses are looking to create effective dashboards that engage as well as communicate the truth of data. Tableau makes data accessible to everyone, and is a great way of sharing enterprise dashboards across the business. Tableau is a revolutionary toolkit that lets you simply and effectively create high-quality data visualizations.

This course starts with making you familiar with its features and enable you to develop and enhance your dashboard skills, starting with an overview of what dashboard is, followed by how you can collect data using various mathematical formulas. Next, you'll learn to filter and group data, as well as how to use various functions to present the data in an appealing and accurate way.

In the first module, you will learn how to use the key advanced string functions to play with data and images. You will be walked through the various features of Tableau including dual axes, scatterplot matrices, heat maps, and sizing.In the second module, you’ll start with getting your data into Tableau, move onto generating progressively complex graphics, and end with the finishing touches and packaging your work for distribution. This module is filled with practical examples to help you create filled maps, use custom markers, add slider selectors, and create dashboards.

You will learn how to manipulate data in various ways by applying various filters, logic, and calculating various aggregate measures. Finally, in the third module, you learn about Tableau Public using which 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. In this module, the readers can quickly gain confidence in understanding and expanding their visualization, creation knowledge, and quickly create interesting, interactive data visualizations to bring a richness and vibrancy to complex articles.

The course provides a great overview for beginner to intermediate Tableau users, and covers the creation of data visualizations of varying complexities.

Table of Contents:

1: A SHORT DASH TO DASHBOARDING!

2: SUMMARIZING YOUR DATA FOR DASHBOARDS

3: INTERACTING WITH DATA FOR DASHBOARDS

4: USING DASHBOARDS TO GET RESULTS

5: PUTTING THE DASH INTO DASHBOARDS

6: MAKING DASHBOARDS RELEVANT

7: VISUAL BEST PRACTICES

8: CONNECTING TO DATA SOURCES

9: CREATING UNIVARIATE CHARTS

10: CREATING BIVARIATE CHARTS

11: CREATING MULTIVARIATE CHARTS

12: CREATING MAPS

13: CALCULATING USER-DEFINED FIELDS

14: CUSTOMIZING AND SAVING

15: EXPORTING AND SHARING

16: EXPLORING ADVANCED FEATURES

17: GETTING STARTED WITH TABLEAU PUBLIC

18: TABLEAU PUBLIC INTERFACE FEATURES

19: CONNECTING TO DATA

20: VISUALIZATION – TIPS AND TYPES

21: CALCULATIONS

22: LEVEL OF DETAIL AND TABLE CALCULATIONS

23: DASHBOARD DESIGN AND STYLING

24: FILTERS AND ACTIONS25: PUBLISHING YOUR WORK

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