Tableau Your Data!: Fast and Easy Visual Analysis with Tableau Software

Acknowledgments

This book is the product of years of experience and the collective effort of many different InterWorks team members. Writing a book requires a little more effort than a tweet or a blog post. Many different people provided technical feedback and inspiration.

Brian Bickell and Eric Shiarla contributed initial drafts of the chapters related to Tableau Server. Kate Treadwell provided a section and examples related to Tableau's tabcmd and tabadmin command line functionality. Significant portions of Chapter 2 were provided by UK team members Mel Stephenson, Rob Austin, and James Austin.

Creating function references in Appendix A was a team effort, but Mike Roberts was instrumental in collecting and organizing all of the examples while also contributing a lot of original example material. Ben Bausili, Josh Davis, Tim Costello, and Matthew Miller from the North American team provided code examples. Jeroen Spanjers, Alastair Young, and Darren Evans of the UK Team also contributed excellent reference material.

Several Tableau Software employees were instrumental in providing technical feedback. I especially want to thank Molly Monsey for the many hours she spent reviewing initial drafts and coordinating other subject area experts within Tableau. François Ajenstat provided guidance during several phases of the book's development—thank you Francois for your enthusiasm and wonderful perspective! Dan Huff and Lee Gray provided detailed technical feedback and advice on the chapters ...