Tableau 8: The Official Guide

by George Peck

Create and distribute dynamic, feature-rich data visualizations and highly interactive BI dashboards―quickly and easily! Tableau 8: The Official Guide provides the hands-on instruction and best practices you need to meet your business intelligence objectives and drive better decision making. Discover how to work from the Tableau GUI, load BI from disparate sources, drag and drop to analyze data, set up custom visualizations, and build robust dashboards. This practical guide shows you, step by step, how to design and publish meaningful business communications to end users across your enterprise. Electronic content

Genres: Bisexual

230 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2012

About the author

GEORGE PECK (Evergreen, CO) is a seasoned consultant and trainer, specializing in Crystal Reports, Crystal Enterprise, and their integration into custom Windows and Web products. He has authored four best-selling editions of Crystal Reports: The Complete Reference.

Reviews

[Oliver Bogler · Rating 4 out of 5]

I had been using Tableau for a while, and was figuring things out as I went along using the internet and trial and error, before I read the book. I got it in the hope that it would help me understand Tableau more completely, and assure myself that I wasn't missing any important capabilities, and I think the book did a good job at that. However, much of the information was already familiar (especially the information on what to click or which menu a command is in), so if you're brand new to Tableau this would be great, but if you are already a user, even if not a power user, then you'll find less here that's useful. Also, the areas are not developed in any great depth. For example, the writing of queries is discussed by general examples, rather than by principles.

The example workbooks are useful, and allow you to learn some useful approaches.

The book is also well written and illustrated.

So, the newer you are to Tableau the more you'll get out of this book.

[Adam Zabell · Rating 3 out of 5]

TL;DR - for when you're tired of rummaging through help pages and just want to know how to DO

[Delhi Irc]

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[Don Chartier · Rating 5 out of 5]

Extremely helpful. Terrific reference