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Tableau Cookbook - Recipes for Data Visualization

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Product type Book
Published in Dec 2016
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781784395513
Pages 504 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages
Author (1):
Shweta Sankhe-Savale Shweta Sankhe-Savale
Profile icon Shweta Sankhe-Savale

Table of Contents (18) Chapters

Tableau Cookbook – Recipes for Data Visualization
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface
1. Keep Calm and Say Hello to Tableau 2. Ready to Build Some Charts? Show Me! 3. Hungry for More Charts? Dig In! 4. Slice and Dice – Grouping, Sorting, and Filtering Data 5. Adding Flavor – Creating Calculated Fields 6. Serve It on a Dashboard! 7. The Right MIX – Blending Multiple Data Sources 8. Garnish with Reference Lines, Trends, Forecasting, and Clustering 9. Bon Appétit! Tell a Story and Share It with others 10. Formatting in Tableau for Desserts Index

Building views manually


The Manual approach in Tableau is a simple drag and drop functionality that users can adopt to build visualizations. This approach gives the users power and flexibility to decide how they want to create their views. In the following recipe, we will build some basic views using the Manual approach.

Getting ready

We can manually build a view in Tableau by dragging and dropping the Dimensions and Measures pane into the Rows or Columns shelf. We will see this approach in the following recipe, and to do this, we will continue working in the workbook named My first Tableau Workbook, which we created and saved in Chapter 1, Keep Calm and Say Hello to Tableau.

How to do it…

  1. If the workbook isn't already open, then open it by double-clicking on My first Tableau Workbook.twb by navigating to Documents | My Tableau Repository | Workbooks. Once we do this, we will see the view shown in the following screenshot:

  2. Now, to create our next visualization, create a new worksheet by right...

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