Tableau for Business Users
eBook - ePub

Tableau for Business Users

Learn to Automate and Simplify Dashboards for Better Decision Making

  1. English
  2. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  3. Only available on web
eBook - ePub

Tableau for Business Users

Learn to Automate and Simplify Dashboards for Better Decision Making

Book details
Table of contents
Citations

About This Book

Learn Tableau by working through concrete examples and issues that you are likely to face in your day-to-day work.

Author Shankar Arul starts by teaching you the fundamentals of data analytics before moving on to the core concepts of Tableau. You will learn how to create calculated fields, and about the currently available calculation functionalities in Tableau, including Basic Expressions, Level of Detail (LOD) Expressions, and Table Calculations. As the book progresses, you'll be walked through comparisons and trend calculations using tables. A concluding chapter on dashboarding will show you how to build actionable dashboards to communicate analysis and visualizations. You'll also see how Tableau can complement and communicate with Excel.

After completing this book, you will be ready to tackle the challenges of data analytics using Tableau without getting bogged down by the technicalities of the tool.

What Will You Learn

  • Master the core concepts of Tableau
  • Automate and simplify dashboards to help business users
  • Understand the basics of data visualization techniques
  • Leverage powerful features such as parameters, table calculations, level of detail expressions, and more

Who is This book For

Business analysts, data analysts, as well as financial analysts.

Frequently asked questions

Simply head over to the account section in settings and click on “Cancel Subscription” - it’s as simple as that. After you cancel, your membership will stay active for the remainder of the time you’ve paid for. Learn more here.
At the moment all of our mobile-responsive ePub books are available to download via the app. Most of our PDFs are also available to download and we're working on making the final remaining ones downloadable now. Learn more here.
Both plans give you full access to the library and all of Perlego’s features. The only differences are the price and subscription period: With the annual plan you’ll save around 30% compared to 12 months on the monthly plan.
We are an online textbook subscription service, where you can get access to an entire online library for less than the price of a single book per month. With over 1 million books across 1000+ topics, we’ve got you covered! Learn more here.
Look out for the read-aloud symbol on your next book to see if you can listen to it. The read-aloud tool reads text aloud for you, highlighting the text as it is being read. You can pause it, speed it up and slow it down. Learn more here.
Yes, you can access Tableau for Business Users by Shankar Arul in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Computer Science & Entreprise Applications. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Information

Publisher
Apress
Year
2021
ISBN
9781484277867
Topic
Computer Science
Subtopic
Entreprise Applications
Index
Computer Science

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Front Matter
  3. 1. Why Visualize Data?
  4. 2. Installation and Setup
  5. 3. Fundamentals of Data
  6. 4. The Crux of Tableau
  7. 5. Calculations
  8. 6. Tables and Table Calculations
  9. 7. Advanced Tips
  10. 8. Dashboards
  11. Back Matter