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Big Data Visualization
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Big Data Visualization

by Dalong Chen, James D. Miller
February 2017
Beginner to intermediate
304 pages
6h 3m
English
Packt Publishing
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Tableau and big data

As I have already stated throughout this book, the idea of plotting millions of data points will never result in a data visualization of much value. In fact, although it is perhaps technically possible to query raw big data directly, it is rarely practical.

We have discussed and (hopefully) established that effective profiling and preprocessing of raw big data is an essential (required) step in any big data visualization process.

Tableau can connect directly to local and cloud data sources, as well as import data for fast in-memory processing and visualization creation. However, just as in the previous chapter, where we explored the rich capabilities provided by the open sourced D3, the correct approach to using Tableau with ...

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