May 2020
Beginner to intermediate
634 pages
15h 49m
English
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Chapter 1. How to Learn Tableau
The single most-common question I’m asked is, “What advice do you have for someone getting started with Tableau?” In Practical Tableau, I covered my top five tips for learning Tableau, but as the product itself evolves, so do the resources for helping you get the most out of the software. This chapter provides my top tips for getting the most out of this book and beyond as you continue your Tableau journey.
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Look at you—already off to a great start! I am naturally partial to the book that you are reading now, but there are several great authors who have inspired me, and Tableau books from which I have learned.
For visualization applications beyond both Practical Tableau and Innovative Tableau, I recommend Communicating Data with Tableau (O’Reilly, 2014) by Ben Jones, founder of Data Literacy.
For additional technical know-how, I recommend reading anything from Joshua Milligan, including Learning Tableau (Packt, 2019).
For inspiration, I recommend The Big Book of Dashboards (Wiley, 2017) from Andy Cotgreave, Jeffrey Shaffer, and Steve Wexler. This is not a Tableau-specific book, but many examples were built in Tableau, and it provides a chance to review critiques from some of the best in the industry.
As for Innovative Tableau, keep an eye out for the kingfisher icon throughout the rest of this title. This reader aid indicates when a prerequisite for the chapter you are reading has been covered in greater detail within Practical Tableau.
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I'm always learning. So when I got on to O'Reilly, I was like a kid in a candy store. There are playlists. There are answers. There's on-demand training. It's worth its weight in gold, in terms of what it allows me to do.