![]() In 334 pages there are over 45 examples and loads of useful tips and tricks. While there are occasional philosophical musings (mostly in chapter 1) and even a fictional interlude into the world of “Chesslandia” in chapter 7, the book is primarily practical in nature. ![]() After covering general principles and the Tableau user interface in the first two chapters, the book touches on both traditional as well as creative examples of communicating data: simple numerical comparisons, rates, ratios proportions and percentages, central tendency and variation, multiple variables, time series data, positional data, and combining multiple visualizations in dashboards. The book is organized into 14 chapters that each deal with a different aspect of communicating data. Expect a revision with 8.2 examples to follow later in the year or early next year. There aren’t any examples that deal with the features that are new to version 8.2, which was not available to the public when the book went to print earlier this month. Anyone with a modern browser can view and interact with the example projects that have been published to Tableau Public (free application available here), and readers will need Tableau Desktop 8.1 or 8.2 (free 14-day trial available here) to open the accompanying Tableau workbook files. I wrote this book for anyone who needs to get a quantitative message across to an audience – analysts, journalists, engineers, marketers, students and researchers. It’s not intended to be a comprehensive Tableau user manual, so not every feature is covered (for that type of resource, I’d recommend Tableau Your Data! by Dan Murray, as well as the helpful online tutorials available at the Tableau Software website). This book is my attempt to show 1) how to communicate data well, and 2) how to use Tableau to do so. ![]() You’ve taught me much of what I included in this book. Of course a million thanks to all of the ingenious and incredibly generous members of the data visualization community – Tableau users and employees in particular. Many thanks to my editor Julie Steele for working with me throughout the past year of writing, and to my family – my wife Sarah and my two boys Aaron and Simon – for dealing with my insane sleeping hours and sporadic moodiness over the past twelve months. You can change content ownership of any published content to another user and all content can be exported and imported on a per-site basis.I’m excited to announce that my first book, Communicating Data with Tableau, has been published by O’Reilly Media and is now available to purchase in ebook or print (in full color) at the O’Reilly online store or Amazon. Key log files are now generated as JSON to be machine-readable. Now you can download Tableau Server log files directly from the Admin page in your web browser. You can now use the Web Authoring tool on Tableau Server which allows you to disable all web authoring capabilities on a per-site basis, providing more administrative flexibility and control. Use the API to create new sites, add or delete users from sites, and much more. Tableau Server now comes with a REST API so you can easily manage and change your server resources programmatically, via HTTP. The new connectors automatically and more accurately detect data types and support functions, including Count Distinct and Median.ĭesktop now has native support for Google Bigquery API, an improved SAP HANA Connector and a native Splunk connector. Easily connect to Microsoft Excel and text file data sources that are more than 255 columns. Tableau Desktop has a New Excel & Text File Connector. Reference Materials Toggle sub-navigation.Teams and Organizations Toggle sub-navigation.
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