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Communicating Data with Tableau

Errata for Communicating Data with Tableau

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chapter 3, section Communicating “How Much”

The online dataset used in the example is no longer available: NYC Open Data site http://bit.ly/nyc-tonnage

 Kai Xu  Sep 24, 2015 
Printed, PDF Page 83
Figure 5-16

Figure 5-16 is supposed to show the initial view after choosing bullet graph in the Show Me panel. As noted in the text, the initial view uses 2011 HR totals for the blue bar lengths, but Fig 5-16 actually shows the view after the 2011 data has been swapped for 2012 data.

Alan Esenther  Aug 21, 2014 
Printed, PDF Page 84
2nd paragraph of Reference Lines section

"To learn more about them, let's take a closer look at what Tableau added to the bar chart in Figure 5-14." This should refer to Fig 5-16 or 5-17.
Also, really nit-picking here, in the text earlier on the page, there's a reference to "the Rangers, the Red Sox, the Tigers, and the Indians." It's conceivable that some readers won't know what cities those teams are from, so if you really want to help them out you could use the city names.

 Alan Esenther  Aug 21, 2014