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Learning Tableau 2019 - Third Edition

You're reading from  Learning Tableau 2019 - Third Edition

Product type Book
Published in Mar 2019
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788839525
Pages 504 pages
Edition 3rd Edition
Languages
Author (1):
Joshua N. Milligan Joshua N. Milligan
Profile icon Joshua N. Milligan

Table of Contents (18) Chapters

Preface 1. Section 1: Tableau Foundations
2. Taking Off with Tableau 3. Working with Data in Tableau 4. Venturing on to Advanced Visualizations 5. Section 2: Leveraging the Full Power of Tableau
6. Starting an Adventure with Calculations 7. Diving Deep with Table Calculations 8. Making Visualizations That Look Great and Work Well 9. Telling a Data Story with Dashboards 10. Digging Deeper - Trends, Clustering, Distributions, and Forecasting 11. Section 3: Data Prep and Structuring
12. Cleaning and Structuring Messy Data 13. Introducing Tableau Prep 14. Section 4: Advanced Techniques and Sharing with Others
15. Advanced Visualizations, Techniques, Tips, and Tricks 16. Sharing Your Data Story 17. Other Books You May Enjoy

Joins and blends

Joining tables and blending data sources are two different ways to link related data together in Tableau. Joins are performed to link tables of data together on a row-by-row basis. Blends are performed to link together multiple data sources at an aggregate level.

Joining tables

Most databases have multiple tables of data that are related in some way. Additionally, with Tableau 10 and later, you are able to join together tables of data across various data connections for many different data sources. As we'll see, Tableau makes it very easy to join together tables of data relatively easy.

Consider, for example, tables such as these:

The primary table is the Hospital Visit table, which has a record for...

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