Skip to Content
Visual Data Storytelling with Tableau, First edition
book

Visual Data Storytelling with Tableau, First edition

by Lindy Ryan
May 2018
Beginner
272 pages
8h 16m
English
Addison-Wesley Professional
Content preview from Visual Data Storytelling with Tableau, First edition

CHAPTER 7

PREPARING DATA FOR STORYTELLING

This chapter covers the very beginning of the data storytelling process, providing the processing steps necessary to ready messy data for visual analysis and storytelling in Tableau. You will leverage the lessons learned thus far in the text as you work through preparing data for analysis, connecting to data, and beginning to visually explore it in Tableau. This chapter walks you through this process, from exporting raw data from survey platforms in order to discuss some important data preparation steps that matter in Tableau, through manually preparing it in Excel and using Tableau 10 and to get data just where it needs to begin building a compelling visual data story.

Knowing the basics of visual ...

Become an O’Reilly member and get unlimited access to this title plus top books and audiobooks from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers, thousands of courses curated by job role, 150+ live events each month,
and much more.

Read now

Unlock full access

More than 5,000 organizations count on O’Reilly

AirBnbBlueOriginElectronic ArtsHomeDepotNasdaqRakutenTata Consultancy Services

QuotationMarkO’Reilly covers everything we've got, with content to help us build a world-class technology community, upgrade the capabilities and competencies of our teams, and improve overall team performance as well as their engagement.
Julian F.
Head of Cybersecurity
QuotationMarkI wanted to learn C and C++, but it didn't click for me until I picked up an O'Reilly book. When I went on the O’Reilly platform, I was astonished to find all the books there, plus live events and sandboxes so you could play around with the technology.
Addison B.
Field Engineer
QuotationMarkI’ve been on the O’Reilly platform for more than eight years. I use a couple of learning platforms, but I'm on O'Reilly more than anybody else. When you're there, you start learning. I'm never disappointed.
Amir M.
Data Platform Tech Lead
QuotationMarkI'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.
Mark W.
Embedded Software Engineer

You might also like

The Functional Art: An introduction to information graphics and visualization

The Functional Art: An introduction to information graphics and visualization

Alberto Cairo
Storytelling with Data

Storytelling with Data

Cole Nussbaumer Knaflic

Publisher Resources

ISBN: 9780134712963