Practical Tableau

100 Tips, Tutorials, and Strategies from a Tableau Zen Master



Bookstore > Books > Practical Tableau

Price$21.35 - $43.99
Rating
AuthorRyan Sleeper
PublisherO'Reilly Media
Published2018
Pages624
LanguageEnglish
FormatPaper book / ebook (PDF)
ISBN-101491977310
ISBN-139781491977316
EBook Hardcover Paperback

Whether you have some experience with Tableau software or are just getting started, this manual goes beyond the basics to help you build compelling, interactive data visualization applications. Author Ryan Sleeper, one of the world's most qualified Tableau consultants, complements his web posts and instructional videos with this guide to give you a firm understanding of how to use Tableau to find valuable insights in data.

Over five sections, Sleeper - recognized as a Tableau Zen Master, Tableau Public Visualization of the Year author, and Tableau Iron Viz Champion - provides visualization tips, tutorials, and strategies to help you avoid the pitfalls and take your Tableau knowledge to the next level.

Fundamentals: get started with Tableau from the beginning; Chart types: use step-by-step tutorials to build a variety of charts in Tableau; Tips and tricks: learn innovative uses of parameters, color theory, how to make your Tableau workbooks run efficiently, and more; Framework: explore the INSIGHT framework, a proprietary process for building Tableau dashboards; Storytelling: learn tangible tactics for storytelling with data, including specific and actionable tips you can implement immediately.


  1. (2 books)


5 5 198

Similar Books


Innovative Tableau

Innovative Tableau

by Ryan Sleeper

Level up with Tableau to build eye-catching, easy-to-interpret data visualizations. In this follow-up guide to Practical Tableau, author Ryan Sleeper takes you through a collection of unique tips and tutorials for using this popular software. Beginning to advanced Tableau users will learn how to go beyond Show Me to make better charts and...

Price:  $51.21  |  Publisher:  O'Reilly Media  |  Release:  2020

Prepare Your Data for Tableau

Prepare Your Data for Tableau

by Tim Costello, Lori Blackshear

Focus on the most important and most often overlooked factor in a successful Tableau project - data. Without a reliable data source, you will not achieve the results you hope for in Tableau. This book does more than teach the mechanics of data preparation. It teaches you: how to look at data in a new way, to recognize the most common issu...

Price:  $32.99  |  Publisher:  Apress  |  Release:  2020

Tableau Strategies

Tableau Strategies

by Ann Jackson, Luke Stanke

If you want to increase Tableau's value to your organization, this practical book has your back. Authors Ann Jackson and Luke Stanke guide data analysts through strategies for solving real-world analytics problems using Tableau. Starting with the basics and building toward advanced topics such as multidimensional analysis and user ex...

Price:  $23.85  |  Publisher:  O'Reilly Media  |  Release:  2021

Mastering Tableau 2021, 3rd Edition

Mastering Tableau 2021, 3rd Edition

by Marleen Meier, David Baldwin

Tableau is one of the leading business intelligence (BI) tools used to solve data analysis challenges. With this book, you will master Tableau's features and offerings in various paradigms of the BI domain.Updated with fresh topics including Quick Level of Detail expressions, the newest Tableau Server features, Einstein Discovery, an...

Price:  $30.39  |  Publisher:  Packt Publishing  |  Release:  2021

Creating Data Stories with Tableau Public

Creating Data Stories with Tableau Public

by Ashley Ohmann, Matt Floyd

Tableau Public is a very useful tool in anyone's data reporting toolbox that allows authors to add an interactive data element to any article. It allows investigative journalists and bloggers to tell a "data story", allowing others to explore your data visualization. The relative ease of Tableau Public visualization creatio...

Price:  $34.99  |  Publisher:  Packt Publishing  |  Release:  2015

Practical Object-Oriented Design, 2nd Edition

Practical Object-Oriented Design, 2nd Edition

by Sandi Metz

Object-oriented programming languages exist to help you create beautiful, straightforward applications that are easy to change and simple to extend. Unfortunately, the world is awash with object-oriented (OO) applications that are difficult to understand and expensive to change. Practical Object-Oriented Design, Second Edition, immerses y...

Price:  $36.71  |  Publisher:  Addison-Wesley  |  Release:  2018

Practical Object-Oriented Design in Ruby

Practical Object-Oriented Design in Ruby

by Sandi Metz

Ruby's widely admired ease of use has a downside: Too many Ruby and Rails applications have been created without concern for their long-term maintenance or evolution. The Web is awash in Ruby code that is now virtually impossible to change or extend. This text helps you solve that problem by using powerful real-world object-oriented ...

Price:  $5.16  |  Publisher:  Addison-Wesley  |  Release:  2012

Practical HTML5 Projects

Practical HTML5 Projects

by Adrian W. West

Practical HTML5 Projects is a collection of valuable web techniques that any developer or designer can use. This book is all about saving time. Busy web developers should not have to plow through pages of theory or history only to discover that no practical applications are provided, nor should they have to read a paragraph five times to ...

Price:  $29.93  |  Publisher:  Apress  |  Release:  2012