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Mastering Tableau 2023 - Fourth Edition

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Product type Book
Published in Aug 2023
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781803233765
Pages 684 pages
Edition 4th Edition
Languages
Author (1):
Marleen Meier Marleen Meier
Profile icon Marleen Meier

Table of Contents (19) Chapters

Preface 1. Reviewing the Basics 2. Getting Your Data Ready 3. Using Tableau Prep Builder 4. Learning about Joins, Blends, and Data Structures 5. Introducing Table Calculations 6. Utilizing OData, Data Densification, Big Data, and Google BigQuery 7. Practicing Level of Detail Calculations 8. Going Beyond the Basics 9. Working with Maps 10. Presenting with Tableau 11. Designing Dashboards and Best Practices for Visualizations 12. Leveraging Advanced Analytics 13. Improving Performance 14. Exploring Tableau Server and Tableau Cloud 15. Integrating Programming Languages 16. Developing Data Governance Practices 17. Other Books You May Enjoy
18. Index

Einstein Discovery

We discussed Tableau exchange in the previous section; however, one other similarly beyond-basics feature deserves some attention too. But before we continue, a bit of backstory. In August 2019 Tableau was acquired by Salesforce. Probably most of you know Salesforce and even work with it, but for all other readers, Salesforce is a cloud-native Customer Relationship Management (CRM) tool. Next to that, the company also developed an analytics portion, which allows Salesforce users to analyze data from a CRM system and other data sources.

Connecting Salesforce to Tableau was possible long before the acquisition, but what’s new in Tableau 2021.1 is that the analytics piece of Salesforce is available for integration into Tableau, as an extension and in calculated fields. The Tableau community is very excited about this feature because of the built-in machine learning capability and real-time prediction power. This piece of software is called Einstein Discovery...

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