Book description
Transform your organization's data into actionable insights with TableauTableau is designed specifically to provide fast and easy visual analytics. The intuitive drag-and-drop interface helps you create interactive reports, dashboards, and visualizations, all without any special or advanced training. This all new edition of Tableau Your Data! is your Tableau companion, helping you get the most out of this invaluable business toolset.
Tableau Your Data! shows you how to build dynamic, best of breed visualizations using the Tableau Software toolset. This comprehensive guide covers the core feature set for data analytics, and provides clear step-by-step guidance toward best practices and advanced techniques that go way beyond the user manual. You'll learn how Tableau is different from traditional business information analysis tools, and how to navigate your way around the Tableau 9.0 desktop before delving into functions and calculations, as well as sharing with the Tableau Server.
Analyze data more effectively with Tableau Desktop
- Customize Tableau's settings for your organization's needs with detailed real-world examples on data security, scaling, syntax, and more
- Deploy visualizations to consumers throughout the enterprise - from sales to marketing, operations to finance, and beyond
- Understand Tableau functions and calculations and leverage Tableau across every link in the value chain
- Learn from actual working models of the book's visualizations and other web-based resources via a companion website
Tableau helps you unlock the stories within the numbers, and Tableau Your Data! puts the software's full functionality right at your fingertips.
Table of contents
- Titlepage
- Copyright
- About the Author
- About the Technical Editor
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Overview of the Book and Technology
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Part I: Desktop
- Chapter 1: Creating Visual Analytics with Tableau Desktop
- Chapter 2: Connecting to Your Data
- Chapter 3: Building Your First Visualization
- Chapter 4: Creating Calculations to Enhance Data
- Chapter 5: Using Maps to Improve Insight
- Chapter 6: Developing an Ad Hoc Analysis Environment
- Chapter 7: Tips, Tricks, and Timesavers
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Chapter 8: Bringing It All Together with Dashboards
- How Dashboards Facilitate Analysis and Understanding
- How Tableau Improves the Dashboard-Building Process
- The Wrong Way to Build a Dashboard
- The Right Way to Build a Dashboard
- Building Your First Advanced Dashboard
- Sharing Your Dashboard with Tableau Reader
- Using the Tableau Performance Recorder to Improve Load Speed
- Sharing Dashboards with Tableau Online or Tableau Server
- Chapter 9: Designing for Mobile
- Chapter 10: Conveying Your Findings with Stories
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Part II: Server
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Chapter 11: Installing Tableau Server
- What’s New in Version 9?
- Reasons to Deploy Tableau Server
- Licensing Options for Tableau Server and Tableau Online
- Determining Your Hardware and Software Needs
- New Feature: Persistent Query Cache
- Determining What Kind of Server License to Purchase
- Tableau Server’s Architecture
- Sizing the Server Hardware
- Environmental Factors That Can Affect Performance
- Configuring Tableau Server for the First Time
- Security Options
- Managing Ownership Through Hierarchy
- Permissions
- What Is the Data Server?
- When and How to Deploy Server on Multiple Physical Boxes
- Deploying Tableau Server in High Availability Environments
- Leveraging Existing Security with Trusted Authentication
- Deploying Tableau Server in Multi-National Environments
- Tableau Server Performance Recorder
- Performance-Tuning Tactics
- Managing Tableau Server in the Cloud
- Monitoring Activity on Tableau Server
- Editing Server Settings and Monitoring Licensing
- Partner Add-on Toolkits
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Chapter 12: Managing Tableau Server
- Managing Published Dashboards in Tableau Server
- Navigating Tableau Server
- Organizing Reports for Consumption
- Options for Securing Reports
- Improve Efficiency with the Data Server
- Consuming Information in Tableau Server
- Authoring and Editing Reports via Server
- What Is Required to Author Reports on the Web?
- Saving and Exporting via the Web-Tablet Environment
- Sharing Connections, Data Models, and Data Extracts
- Embedding Tableau Reports Securely on the Web
- When Your Reports Are a Piece of a Larger SaaS Offering
- Using Trusted Ticket Authentication as an Alternative Single Sign-on Method
- Using Subscriptions to Deliver Reports via E-mail
- Chapter 13: Automating Tableau Server
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Chapter 11: Installing Tableau Server
- Part III: Case Studies
- Part IV: Appendixes
- End-User License Agreement
Product information
- Title: Tableau Your Data!, 2nd Edition
- Author(s):
- Release date: January 2016
- Publisher(s): Wiley
- ISBN: 9781119001195
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