Tableau Cookbook for Experienced Professionals: Over 60 advanced recipes for maximizing performance, interactivity, and platform potential
暫譯: 資深專業人士的 Tableau 食譜：超過 60 種進階配方以最大化效能、互動性和平台潛力

Push beyond conventional Tableau by mastering advanced geospatial capabilities, unlocking API potential, and fortifying corporate data infrastructure with industry-leading best practices

Key Features:

- Transform dashboards into data apps that drive instant business decisions

- Build robust data models that scale with your data

- Extend Tableau with developer tools to automate tasks and integrate with external systems

- Purchase of the print or Kindle book includes a free PDF eBook

Book Description:

In today's data-driven business world, advanced analytics set organizations apart. Basic visualizations no longer suffice for Tableau developers tackling complex data challenges. Written by Tableau experts who've trained Fortune 500 companies and led global analytics initiatives, this cookbook delivers battle-tested techniques with the perfect blend of technical depth and practical application.

You'll master advanced techniques such as geospatial analysis, data modeling for optimized workflows, and enterprise-scale content management. This book shows you how to leverage Tableau cloud's Data Management capabilities to centralize data sources and ensure data quality for consistent analytics. You'll also explore advanced management features such as the Content Migration Tool in Tableau 2025.1 and beyond.

Bridging the gap between fundamentals and cutting-edge practices, this book extends Tableau's capabilities with APIs, custom LOD expressions, virtual connections, data apps, and TabPy. You'll gain the skills to solve complex business problems, create high-impact dashboards, and seamlessly integrate Tableau into your data strategy, all while adhering to security and governance best practices.

This isn't just another Tableau cookbook-it's your blueprint for mastering the platform and driving meaningful data-powered transformation.

What You Will Learn:

- Build advanced, high-performing Tableau data models and tables

- Tackle data complexities with LOD expressions and table calculations

- Leverage zone visibility to build interactive and user-friendly dashboards

- Optimize workbook performance for improved user experience

- Analyze geospatial data with map layers, shapefiles, and spatial joins

- Develop a deeper understanding of Tableau's REST API capabilities

- Use Tableau's order of operations to troubleshoot calculations

- Adopt industry-standard best practices to secure corporate data assets

Who this book is for:

This cookbook is for Tableau users and developers, BI administrators, and data analysts ready to explore advanced techniques and deepen their expertise. To make the most of this book, you should either have intermediate to advanced experience with Tableau Desktop and its core functionalities or bring strong proficiency from other BI platforms. If you're coming from another BI background, this book will prove invaluable as it demonstrates Tableau's real-world applications. Familiarity with products such as Tableau Cloud and Tableau Server is beneficial, but not a prerequisite for using this book.

Table of Contents

- Building Advanced and Efficient Tableau Data Models

- Managing Content and Security at Scale in Tableau

- Leveraging Tableau Cloud's Data Management and Advanced Management

- Maximizing Workbook Performance

- Mastering Advanced Calculations to Answer Complex Business Questions

- Creating Interactive Dashboards

- Interactivity and Zone Visibility: from Dashboards to Data Apps

- Advanced Geospatial and Mapping Use Cases

- Extending Tableau with Developer Tools and APIs

- Core Techniques for Impactful Data Design