Tableau Desktop Specialist certification a prep guide with multiple learning styles to help you gain Tableau Desktop Specialist certification

Tableau Desktop Specialist Certification is a practical book full of exercises and examples that will help you master Tableau Desktop and successfully gain certification. This book includes complete, up-to-date coverage of the exam so you can attempt it with confidence, fully equipped to pass the fi...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Mico, Adam, author (author)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Birmingham, England : Packt Publishing, Limited [2023]
Edición:1st ed
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Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009720312906719
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • Title Page
  • Copyright and Credits
  • Contributors
  • Table of Contents
  • Preface
  • Part 1: Introduction to Tableau
  • Chapter 1: Tableau Desktop Specialist Certification Overview
  • How will a Tableau Desktop Specialist certification help me?
  • United States
  • United Kingdom
  • Learning Tableau Desktop basics
  • Application basics (as of April 2022)
  • Connecting to data
  • Worksheets
  • Worksheets, dashboards, and stories
  • Worksheet Data pane basics
  • Show Me charts
  • Summary
  • Knowledge check
  • Chapter 2: Data Ingestion
  • Technical requirements
  • Data structure basics
  • Format
  • Basic data categorization and data types
  • Pivoted versus unpivoted data
  • Data cleanliness basics
  • Connecting to data
  • Overview of the Data Source pane
  • Formatting fields in the Data Source pane
  • Core cleaning functions of the Data Source pane
  • Summary
  • Knowledge check
  • Chapter 3: How to Interpret Data in a Tableau Visualization
  • Technical requirements
  • Simple one-chart data visualization
  • Formatting a chart in Tableau
  • Filters and actions
  • Tooltips
  • Summary
  • Knowledge check
  • Chapter 4: Working with Dimensions, Measures, and Marks (Oh My)
  • Technical requirements
  • Grasping data dimensions
  • Data measures
  • Discrete versus continuous (blue versus green fields - otherwise known as pills)
  • The Tableau Marks section
  • Tableau mark types
  • Managing marks' appearance
  • Summary
  • Knowledge check
  • Chapter 5: Calculations and Functions Syntax
  • Technical requirements
  • Tableau functions
  • Number functions
  • String functions
  • Date functions
  • Logical functions
  • Basic aggregate functions
  • Other functions
  • Creating basic calculations in Tableau
  • Creating a (blank) calculated field
  • Building a calculation
  • Introduction to LOD expressions and parameters
  • LOD expressions
  • Parameters.
  • Order of operations
  • Summary
  • Knowledge check
  • Part 2: Mastering the Exam
  • Chapter 6: Connecting to and Preparing Data
  • Technical requirements
  • Creating live data connections and extracts
  • Live versus extracted connections
  • Creating a live data connection
  • Creating an extracted data connection and local data source
  • Creating and managing the data model
  • Managing data properties
  • Unions in Tableau Desktop and join basics
  • Unions
  • Join basics
  • Summary
  • Knowledge check
  • Chapter 7: Understanding and Creating Fundamental Charts in Tableau
  • Technical requirements
  • Creating fundamental charts
  • Bar chart
  • Crosstab (text table)
  • Highlight table (also known as a heat map)
  • Stacked bar chart
  • Line chart
  • Area chart
  • Scatter plot
  • Dual-axis chart
  • Filled map
  • Point maps
  • Density maps
  • Summary
  • Knowledge check
  • Chapter 8: Data Organization and Worksheet Analytics
  • Technical requirements
  • Organizing data
  • Grouping data
  • Creating hierarchies
  • Working with sets
  • Applying analytics at the worksheet level
  • Managing manual/computed sorting
  • Dynamic sorting
  • Adding reference lines
  • Reference line instructions
  • Working with basic table calculations
  • Basic table calculation instructions
  • Understanding the basics of parameters
  • Creating bins and histograms
  • Instructions for creating a bin and a histogram
  • Summary
  • Knowledge check
  • Chapter 9: Sharing Insights
  • Technical requirements
  • Formatting a visualization for presentation
  • Using colors from the Marks card
  • Configuring fonts
  • Formatting marks as shapes
  • Configuring visualization animations
  • Changing the size of marks
  • Showing and hiding legends
  • Creating and modifying a simple dashboard
  • Dashboard pre-work
  • Viewing and sharing workbook data
  • Sharing a workbook as a file or on a server.
  • View and export underlying data
  • Summary
  • Knowledge check
  • Part 3: The Final Prep
  • Chapter 10: Exam Preparation
  • Technical requirements
  • Preparation through examination scheduling
  • Examination basics
  • Preparing for the online examination before the day of the exam
  • Scheduling the examination and additional preparation
  • Final examination preparation
  • Post-scheduling preparation
  • Exam day preparation
  • Once the examination is done
  • Summary
  • Chapter 11: Mock Test
  • Technical requirements
  • Mock exam
  • Start the exam
  • Exam answers
  • Exam scoring
  • Basic scoring
  • Domain scoring
  • What's next?
  • Summary
  • Index
  • Other Books You May Enjoy.