Tableau For Dummies

Learn to:

Navigate the user interface Analyze any data even multiple sources Create and share interactive dashboards

Learn to organize and communicate your data in exciting new ways!

Data analysis is fun and easy with Tableau. This useful guide will let you harness the power of Tableau to perform complex data analysis and create powerful visualizations and dashboards! Learn your way around the software, connect to various data sources, and create analyses, visualizations, and dashboards to share throughout your organization.

Meet Tableau tour the desktop, learn the tools, see what Tableau can do, and discover how to add dimensions and choose chart types Bring on the data understand data sources and what you can use, connect to data, keep your data fresh, and start building data views Start analyzing get a handle on the workspace and what goes where, and explore data display options Add a dashboard find out how dashboards can aid in visualizing data and make sure yours are easy to use Story time learn why it′s important to tell a story and how to be sure your story serves its purpose Get it out there publish your analyses and visualizations to Tableau Server or Tableau Online A step beyond venture into visual analytics and explore Tableau′s programming features

Open the book and find:

How to rearrange data views All about data connections Ways to choose a data source A guide to shelves and cards Why multiple sheets are useful How to provide online access When to use calculated fields Ten terrific Tableau tips

Molly Monsey joined Tableau in 2009 as a technical product consultant. She and Paul Sochan work together to lead the Tableau training team. Today she recruits, trains, and supports instructors who educate Tableau users all over the world. Paul Sochan joined Tableau in 2010 and serves as the Senior Director of Global Education Services. The training team he built with Molly Monsey develops all Tableau training offerings. Paul has been in the Business Intelligence space since 1994.