Visual analytics with Tableau. (2019)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Alexander Loth.
• Authors: Loth, Alexander
• Contents: Cover; Title Page; Copyright; About the Author; About the Technical Editors; Credits; Acknowledgments; Contents; Foreword by Nate Vogel; Foreword by Sophie Sparkes; Introduction; Structure; Conventions; Companion Website; Chapter 1 Introduction and Getting Started with Tableau; The Advantages of a Modern Analytics Platform; My Personal Tableau Story; The Tableau Application Suite; Installing Tableau Desktop; System Requirements for Tableau Desktop; Downloading and Installing Tableau Desktop; Registering and Activating Tableau Desktop; Data Preparation; Crosstab Reports with Wide Tables Preparing Your Data for AnalysisLong Tables Suitable for Analysis; The Sample Dataset; Finding the Dataset; Understanding the Data; Opening the Excel File Containing the Sample Dataset; The Tableau Workspace; The Menu Bar; The Data Pane; Working with Measures and Dimensions; Visualizing a First Measure; Breaking Down a Measure Based on a Dimension; Working with Marks; Working with Color; Adding More Information to Tooltips; Saving, Opening, and Sharing Your Workbooks; Saving Workbooks; Opening Workbooks; Sharing Workbooks with Tableau Reader; Chapter 2 Adding Data Sources in Tableau Setting Up a Data ConnectorConnecting to a File; Connecting to a Server; Connecting to a Cloud Service; Selecting Data Tables; Adding a Table to a Data Model; Joins; Unions; Specific Unions (Manual); Wildcard Unions (Automatic); Data Extracts and Live Connections; Live Connections; Untethered with a Data Extract; Data Protection and Data Governance; Editing the Model's Metadata; Data Types; Changing a Field's Data Type; Adding Hierarchies, Calculated Fields, and Table Calculations; Data Collection; Data Collection with IFTTT and Google Sheets; Website Analysis with Google Analytics Checklist for Increasing PerformanceGeneral Advice for Performance Optimization; Performance Optimization with Files and Cloud Services; Performance Optimization with Database Servers; Chapter 3 Creating Data Visualizations; Chart Types; Ready, Set, Show Me; How Show Me Works; Scatter Plots; Bar Charts, Legends, Filters, and Hierarchies; Bar Charts; Hierarchies; Filters; Line Charts; Straight Lines; Adjusting the Time Dimension; Step Charts; Jump Lines; Continuous Date Fields; Highlight Tables; Step 1: Cross Tables; Step 2: Add Color; Step 3: Change the Mark Type; Heatmaps Step 1: Build the TableStep 2: Choose an Interesting Color Palette; Step 3: Change the Size of Marks; Bullet Charts; Step 1: Side-By-Side Bars; Step 2: Overlay the Measures; Cumulative Sums with Waterfall Charts; Step 1: Sorted Bar Chart; Step 2: Cumulative Sum and Gantt bars; Step 3: Calculate the Step Size; Reflection: The Anatomy of a Tableau Visualization; Chapter 4 Aggregate Functions, Calculated Fields, and Parameters; Aggregate Functions; Calculated Fields; Aggregations in Calculated Fields; Text Operators; Splits; Shortening Character Strings
• Publisher Details: Indianapolis : John Wiley & Sons
• Publication Date: 2019
• Extent: 1 online resource, color illustrations
• Subjects: 001.4/226; Information visualization -- Computer programs; Visual analytics -- Computer programs; REFERENCE / Questions & Answers; Electronic books; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781119560227; 1119560225
• Related ISBNs: 9781119560203
• Notes: Note: Online resource ; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed April 15, 2019).
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