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Learning Tableau 2025 - Sixth Edition
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Learning Tableau 2025 - Sixth Edition

by Joshua N. Milligan
August 2025
Beginner to intermediate
590 pages
15h 16m
English
Packt Publishing
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Visual Analytics: Trends, Clustering, Distributions, and Forecasting

The rapid visual analysis that is possible using Tableau is incredibly useful for answering numerous questions and making key decisions, but it barely scratches the surface of the possible analytics. For example, a simple scatterplot can reveal outliers, but sometimes you want to understand the distribution or identify clusters of similar observations. A simple time series helps you to see the rise and fall of a measure over time, but sometimes you want to see the trend or make predictions for future values.

Tableau enables you to quickly enhance your data visualizations with statistical analysis. Built-in features such as trend models, clustering, distributions, and forecasting ...

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