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Seema Acharya and Subhashini Chellappan, Pro Tableau, 10.1007/978-1-4842-2352-9_2

2. Working with Single and Multiple Data Sources

Seema Acharya and Subhashini Chellappan2

(1)Pune, Maharashtra, India

(2)Bangalore, Karnataka, India

“Most of us need to listen to the music to understand how beautiful it is. But often that’s how we present statistics: we just show the notes, we don’t play the music.”

— Hans Rosling, co-founder and chairman of the Gapminder Foundation, who developed the Trendalyzer software system

Chapter 1 familiarized us with the basic concepts of visualization, the need and significance of visualization, the features of Tableau, the Tableau product line and the various file formats in ...

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