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Published inAug 2022
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ISBN-139781801072328
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Joshua N. Milligan
Joshua N. Milligan
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Joshua N. Milligan

Joshua N. Milligan is a Hall of Fame Tableau Zen Master and 2017 Iron Viz Global finalist. His passion is training, mentoring, and helping people gain insights and make decisions based on their data through data visualization using Tableau and data cleaning and structuring using Tableau Prep. He is a principal consultant at Teknion Data Solutions, where he has served clients in numerous industries since 2004.
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You may share workbooks with other users of Tableau Desktop and Tableau Reader. We’ll consider the options and note some differences in the following sections.

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One of the major considerations is whether you will be sharing a packaged workbook (.twbx) or an unpackaged workbook (.twb). Packaged workbooks are single files that contain the workbook (.twb), extracts (.hyper), file-based data sources that have not been extracted (.xls, .xlsx, .txt, .cub, .mdb, and others), custom images, and various other related files. When you share a packaged workbook, you are sharing extracted and file-based data and images with the end-user. If you share an unpackaged workbook, the other Desktop user will need to connect to the data, have local copies of file-based data sources...

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Published in: Aug 2022Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781801072328

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Joshua N. Milligan

Joshua N. Milligan is a Hall of Fame Tableau Zen Master and 2017 Iron Viz Global finalist. His passion is training, mentoring, and helping people gain insights and make decisions based on their data through data visualization using Tableau and data cleaning and structuring using Tableau Prep. He is a principal consultant at Teknion Data Solutions, where he has served clients in numerous industries since 2004.
Read more about Joshua N. Milligan