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Jumpstart Tableau: A Step-By-Step Guide to Better Data Visualization
Learn how to create powerful data visualizations easily and quickly. You will develop reports and queries, and perform data analysis. Jumpstart Tableau covers the basic reporting and analysis functions that most BI users perform in their day-to-day work. These include connecting to a data source, working with dimensions and measures, developing reports and charts, saving workbooks, filtering, swapping, sorting, formatting, grouping, creating hierarchies, forecasting, exporting, distributing, as well developing various chart types.
Each exercise in Jumpstart Tableau provides screenshots that cover every step from start to finish. The exercises are based on a comprehensive sample Excel-based data source that Tableau Software (version 9) has provided, which makes it very easy to duplicate the exercises on the real software. This book teaches you What You'll Learn Who This Book Is For
Novice Tableau users, BI end users, as well as developers and business analysts. Also, students in university courses on dashboards and data visualization as well as BI and data analysis can quickly get up to speed with Tableau tools and use them for implementing the hands-on projects associated with these courses.
Each exercise in Jumpstart Tableau provides screenshots that cover every step from start to finish. The exercises are based on a comprehensive sample Excel-based data source that Tableau Software (version 9) has provided, which makes it very easy to duplicate the exercises on the real software. This book teaches you What You'll Learn Who This Book Is For
Novice Tableau users, BI end users, as well as developers and business analysts. Also, students in university courses on dashboards and data visualization as well as BI and data analysis can quickly get up to speed with Tableau tools and use them for implementing the hands-on projects associated with these courses.
401 pages, Paperback
Published June 3, 2016
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July 2, 2021
I read this entire book cover-to-cover and I did all the exercises so I believe I am qualified to leave a review.
The book is extremely simplistic and filled with pictures. It is seriously like one step as simple as "open the file menu", and a picture demonstrating that.
You will NOT struggle or be confused at all, unless you are really dumb like me and then maybe you will need to glance back at the instructions 1-2 times total throughout the entire 40 chapters.
With that said, the book does cover everything you need to know the basics of Tableau. No stone is left unturned and you will know all about the very basics.
It has also saved my life more than once when I changed some random tiny setting and had no idea how I broke my visualization. The answers of what many things do are all in the book.
Recommended for beginners and non-technical people.
The book is extremely simplistic and filled with pictures. It is seriously like one step as simple as "open the file menu", and a picture demonstrating that.
You will NOT struggle or be confused at all, unless you are really dumb like me and then maybe you will need to glance back at the instructions 1-2 times total throughout the entire 40 chapters.
With that said, the book does cover everything you need to know the basics of Tableau. No stone is left unturned and you will know all about the very basics.
It has also saved my life more than once when I changed some random tiny setting and had no idea how I broke my visualization. The answers of what many things do are all in the book.
Recommended for beginners and non-technical people.
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