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Tableau at Work
What is it like to learn Tableau on the job? This is my story of how I survived the challenges, became a data fam, and garnered praise from my business partners with every project I delivered. This book is a real-world perspective on learning to live with Tableau and loving it. If you are like I was, you might be asking yourself questions such
Where do I start with Tableau?What business questions can my charts answer, and how do I create different types of charts?How do I prepare and connect to data files that are constantly changing? Or how do I share Tableau files with co-workers, and what is tall data?How do I test whether the calculations and aggregations are correct?How can I create vibrant charts with sorting, color, axis labels, annotations, mark labels, trend lines, tooltips, or reference lines?How do I help transition my business partners from Excel to Tableau and teach them how to harness Tableau to find insights and new opportunities? This book includes over fifty chart examples with guides to create forty chart types at a glance. In addition, there are over sixty detailed examples of everything from context filters and weighted average calculations to transparent shapes and colors with placeholder fields. Similarly, the dashboard chapter has nine step-by-step dashboards illustrating parameters, containers, buttons, actions, and more. You can download many of the files from my Tableau Public profile. Creating the more complex charts may involve ten to fifteen steps, so each example includes many screenshots so you can easily follow along. With over 800 diagrams and images, the clear explanations delve deeper into concepts like
Measures and DimensionsDiscrete and ContinuousAggregationJoins, Blends, and RelationshipsOrder of OperationsMark Types and Color, Size, Text, Detail, and TooltipsActions with Filters, Sets, Links, Highlighting, and ParametersReference Lines and Trend LinesDashboard Layout, Containers, Filtering, and Interactivity Tableau skills are not limited to developers. As a data ambassador, I regularly work with my business partners to explore their data. Our partnership means we can uncover new insights and quickly answer questions in real-time. Data analytics skills are the new email; we must climb this mountain to succeed in the future.
Join me on this fascinating journey to #datafam independence.
Where do I start with Tableau?What business questions can my charts answer, and how do I create different types of charts?How do I prepare and connect to data files that are constantly changing? Or how do I share Tableau files with co-workers, and what is tall data?How do I test whether the calculations and aggregations are correct?How can I create vibrant charts with sorting, color, axis labels, annotations, mark labels, trend lines, tooltips, or reference lines?How do I help transition my business partners from Excel to Tableau and teach them how to harness Tableau to find insights and new opportunities? This book includes over fifty chart examples with guides to create forty chart types at a glance. In addition, there are over sixty detailed examples of everything from context filters and weighted average calculations to transparent shapes and colors with placeholder fields. Similarly, the dashboard chapter has nine step-by-step dashboards illustrating parameters, containers, buttons, actions, and more. You can download many of the files from my Tableau Public profile. Creating the more complex charts may involve ten to fifteen steps, so each example includes many screenshots so you can easily follow along. With over 800 diagrams and images, the clear explanations delve deeper into concepts like
Measures and DimensionsDiscrete and ContinuousAggregationJoins, Blends, and RelationshipsOrder of OperationsMark Types and Color, Size, Text, Detail, and TooltipsActions with Filters, Sets, Links, Highlighting, and ParametersReference Lines and Trend LinesDashboard Layout, Containers, Filtering, and Interactivity Tableau skills are not limited to developers. As a data ambassador, I regularly work with my business partners to explore their data. Our partnership means we can uncover new insights and quickly answer questions in real-time. Data analytics skills are the new email; we must climb this mountain to succeed in the future.
Join me on this fascinating journey to #datafam independence.
534 pages, Paperback
Published April 3, 2024
About the author
Cathy Young
28 books13 followersCathy Young is a columnist for The Boston Globe and Reason, an author and a public speaker.
Born in Moscow, Russia in 1963, Young came to the United States with her family in 1980. She received her B.A. degree in English from Rutgers University in 1988, where she was admitted to Phi Beta Kappa.
Young is the author of two books: Ceasefire!: Why Women and Men Must Join Forces to Achieve True Equality (The Free Press, February 1999), and Growing Up in Moscow: Memories of a Soviet Girlhood (Ticknor & Fields, 1989). She also contributed the essay, "Keeping Women Weak," to Next: Young American Writers on the New Generation (Eric Liu, ed.). W. W. Norton & Co., 1994. As a research associate at the Cato Institute, she co-authored, with Michael Weiss, Esq., the 1996 policy analysis, "Feminist Jurisprudence: Equal Rights or Neo-Paternalism?"
Since September 2000, Young has been a regular op-ed columnist for The Boston Globe. She also writes a monthly column for Reason magazine. From 1993 to 1999, she was a weekly columnist for the Detroit News. Her columns, book reviews, and feature articles have appeared in many publications including New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, The Philadelphia Inquirer, Newsday, The American Spectator, Salon.Com, National Review, and The New Republic.
Young's television appearances have included The Today Show (NBC); Crier & Company, Inside Business (CNN); This is America!, To the Contrary, and Uncommon Knowledge (PBS); Washington Journal (C-Span); Judith Regan Tonight and The O'Reilly Factor (Fox News Channel). Radio appearances have included Talk of the Nation and Radio Times (National Public Radio) and numerous shows on stations across the United States.
Young has spoken before the Commonwealth Club of San Francisco; at the Sex Wars Conference (Institute of Contemporary Arts, London); the Freedom School (Freedom Communications Media Conference); the Children's Rights Council; the New School for Social Research; The Pacific Research Institute; and the Cato Institute. She has also appeared at colleges and universities including Boston College Law School, Georgetown University Law School, Stanford Law School; Boalt Hall Law School (University of California-Berkeley); University of North Carolina Law School; Northwestern University Law School; and University of Michigan Law School.
Born in Moscow, Russia in 1963, Young came to the United States with her family in 1980. She received her B.A. degree in English from Rutgers University in 1988, where she was admitted to Phi Beta Kappa.
Young is the author of two books: Ceasefire!: Why Women and Men Must Join Forces to Achieve True Equality (The Free Press, February 1999), and Growing Up in Moscow: Memories of a Soviet Girlhood (Ticknor & Fields, 1989). She also contributed the essay, "Keeping Women Weak," to Next: Young American Writers on the New Generation (Eric Liu, ed.). W. W. Norton & Co., 1994. As a research associate at the Cato Institute, she co-authored, with Michael Weiss, Esq., the 1996 policy analysis, "Feminist Jurisprudence: Equal Rights or Neo-Paternalism?"
Since September 2000, Young has been a regular op-ed columnist for The Boston Globe. She also writes a monthly column for Reason magazine. From 1993 to 1999, she was a weekly columnist for the Detroit News. Her columns, book reviews, and feature articles have appeared in many publications including New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, The Philadelphia Inquirer, Newsday, The American Spectator, Salon.Com, National Review, and The New Republic.
Young's television appearances have included The Today Show (NBC); Crier & Company, Inside Business (CNN); This is America!, To the Contrary, and Uncommon Knowledge (PBS); Washington Journal (C-Span); Judith Regan Tonight and The O'Reilly Factor (Fox News Channel). Radio appearances have included Talk of the Nation and Radio Times (National Public Radio) and numerous shows on stations across the United States.
Young has spoken before the Commonwealth Club of San Francisco; at the Sex Wars Conference (Institute of Contemporary Arts, London); the Freedom School (Freedom Communications Media Conference); the Children's Rights Council; the New School for Social Research; The Pacific Research Institute; and the Cato Institute. She has also appeared at colleges and universities including Boston College Law School, Georgetown University Law School, Stanford Law School; Boalt Hall Law School (University of California-Berkeley); University of North Carolina Law School; Northwestern University Law School; and University of Michigan Law School.
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