Tableau Data Visualization Cookbook

Over 70 recipes for creating visual stories with your data using Tableau

Overview

• Quickly create impressive and effective graphics which would usually take hours in other tools
• Lots of illustrations to keep you on track
• Includes examples that apply to a general audience

In Detail

You know the feeling when you are asked to change or add a certain data point in your graph at the last minute. Usually, you have to scramble to complete the project and risk accuracy; this is not so with Tableau, however. Tableau is a revolutionary toolkit that lets you simply and effectively create high quality data visualizations.

"Tableau Data Visualization Cookbook" will show you the exact steps required to generate simple to complex graphics. Whether they are pie charts or box plots, you can create such graphics with ease and confidence; no more searching for scripts or laborious Excel hacks. This book will help you make the most of Tableau and show you how to finish your projects quicker using this toolkit.

In this book you’ll start with getting your data into Tableau, move onto generating progressively complex graphics, and end with the finishing touches and packaging your work for distribution.

This book is filled with practical recipes to help you create filled maps, use custom markers, add slider selectors, and create dashboards. You will learn how to manipulate data in various ways by applying various filters, logic, and calculating various aggregate measures. Then, we will create animated graphs and provide search box and drop-down selectors to users. This book will help you to create stunning graphics in very short amount of time.

If you want to effortlessly create beautiful visualizations of data then "Tableau Data Visualization Cookbook" is for you!

What you will learn from this book

• Forecast with trend lines
• Manipulate and transform data
• Import data from various sources
• Create filled maps and use any shape file
• Share your work easily
• Create dashboards and scorecards
• Format and finish the graphic
• Observe statistical distributions

Approach

This Cookbook contains step-by-step instructions for Tableau users to create effective graphics. The book is designed in such a way that you can refer to it chapter by chapter; you can look at the list of recipes and read them in no particular order.

Who this book is written for

You’ll gain the most from this book if you have basic understanding of various chart types and of their importance. Knowing when to employ a certain graphic will be equally useful. This book will get you up to speed if you just started using Tableau. You’ll find this book useful if you spend a lot of time conducting data analysis and creating reports.

超過70個使用Tableau創建視覺故事的食譜

概述：
- 快速創建令人印象深刻且有效的圖形，這在其他工具中可能需要數小時
- 大量插圖以幫助您保持正確方向
- 包含適用於一般受眾的示例

詳細內容：
當您被要求在最後一刻更改或添加圖表中的某個數據點時，您知道那種感覺。通常情況下，您必須匆忙完成項目，並冒著準確性的風險；然而，使用Tableau則不會如此。Tableau是一個革命性的工具包，讓您可以簡單而有效地創建高質量的數據可視化。

《Tableau數據可視化食譜》將向您展示生成簡單到複雜圖形所需的確切步驟。無論是餅圖還是箱形圖，您都可以輕鬆自信地創建此類圖形；不再需要搜索腳本或費力的Excel技巧。本書將幫助您充分利用Tableau，並向您展示如何使用這個工具包更快地完成項目。

在本書中，您將從將數據輸入Tableau開始，進而生成越來越複雜的圖形，最後進行修飾並將您的工作打包以便分發。

本書充滿了實用的食譜，幫助您創建填充地圖、使用自定義標記、添加滑塊選擇器和創建儀表板。您將學習如何通過應用各種過濾器、邏輯和計算各種聚合度量來以各種方式操作數據。然後，我們將創建動畫圖形並為用戶提供搜索框和下拉選擇器。本書將幫助您在非常短的時間內創建令人驚艷的圖形。

如果您想輕鬆創建美麗的數據可視化，那麼《Tableau數據可視化食譜》就是為您而寫的！

本書將教您以下內容：
- 使用趨勢線進行預測
- 操作和轉換數據
- 從各種來源導入數據
- 創建填充地圖並使用任何形狀文件
- 輕鬆分享您的工作
- 創建儀表板和記分卡
- 格式化和完成圖形
- 觀察統計分佈

方法：
本食譜以逐步指導Tableau用戶創建有效圖形。本書設計得可以按章節查閱；您可以查看食譜列表，無需特定順序閱讀。

本書適合對各種圖表類型及其重要性有基本了解的讀者。了解何時使用特定圖形將同樣有用。如果您剛開始使用Tableau，本書將使您迅速上手。如果您花很多時間進行數據分析和創建報告，您也會發現本書很有用。