Creating data stories with Tableau Public illustrate your data in a more interactive and interesting way using Tableau Public

Illustrate your data in a more interactive and interesting way using Tableau Public About This Book Learn the basics of creating visualizations with Tableau using this concise reference book Understand how to join and aggregate your data sources using Tableau It is a step by step guide that uses exa...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Ohmann, Ashley, author (author), Floyd, Matt, author
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Birmingham : Packt Publishing 2015.
Edición:1st edition
Colección:Community experience distilled.
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Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009629672306719
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • Copyright
  • Credits
  • About the Author
  • Acknowledgments
  • About the Author
  • About the Reviewer
  • www.PacktPub.com
  • Table of Contents
  • Preface
  • Chapter 1: Getting Started with Tableau Public
  • A Tableau Public overview
  • Telling your story with Tableau Public
  • Installing Tableau Public
  • Exploring Tableau Public
  • Connecting to data
  • Opening files and creating your profile
  • Discover
  • Exploring the visualizations of other authors
  • Summary
  • Chapter 2: Tableau Public Interface Features
  • Touring the Tableau Public user interface
  • The side bar
  • The Data pane
  • Visual cues
  • The Analytics pane
  • Menus and toolbars
  • Canvas and Column/Row shelves
  • Using the Columns and Rows shelves
  • Using the Marks card
  • The Filters and Pages shelves
  • The workspace control tabs of Tableau Public
  • The Show Me tool
  • Summary
  • Chapter 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
  • The data source user interface
  • Using the data interpreter
  • Pivoting data
  • Filtering data sources
  • Joining tables
  • Connecting to web-based data sources
  • Summary
  • Chapter 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
  • About dimensions and measures
  • Continuous and discrete dimensions and measures
  • Selecting aggregation types for measures
  • Swapping and sorting
  • Types of visualization
  • Line graphs
  • Continuous versus discrete date-time elements
  • Tables
  • Bar charts
  • Geographic maps
  • Scatter plots
  • Pie charts
  • Using groups and sets.
  • Summary
  • Chapter 5: Calculations
  • Creating calculated fields
  • Editing 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
  • Chapter 6: Level of Detail and Table Calculations
  • About data sources
  • Creating quick table calculations
  • Changing over time
  • Compute using
  • Moving average
  • Editing table calculations
  • Manually editing table calculations
  • Ranking
  • Window versus running functions
  • A note on addressing
  • The level of detail calculations
  • A FIXED LOD calculation
  • The INCLUDE and nested LOD calculations
  • Summary
  • Chapter 7: Dashboard Design and Styling
  • The dashboard design process
  • Best practices for dashboard design
  • Creating a dashboard
  • The dashboard tab interface
  • Layout objects
  • Setting the size of dashboard elements
  • Sizing the dashboard
  • Building a dashboard
  • Summary
  • Chapter 8: Filters and Actions
  • Adding and using Filters
  • Adding Filters to worksheets
  • Adding Quick Filters to a dashboard
  • Moving the Quick Filter
  • Filtering across Data sources with parameters
  • Using parameters as Filters
  • Modifying titles
  • Filtering across multiple Data sources with parameters
  • Actions
  • URL actions
  • Summary
  • Chapter 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
  • Index.