Tableau Your Data! : Fast and Easy Visual Analysis with Tableau Software

Best practices and step-by-step instructions for using the Tableau Software toolset Although the Tableau Desktop interface is relatively intuitive, this book goes beyond the simple mechanics of the interface to show best practices for creating effective visualizations for specific business intelligence objectives. It illustrates little-known features and techniques for getting the most from the Tableau toolset, supporting the needs of the business analysts who use the product as well as the data and IT managers who support it. This comprehensive guide covers the core feature set for data analytics, illustrating best practices for creating and sharing specific types of dynamic data visualizations. Featuring a helpful full-color layout, the book covers analyzing data with Tableau Desktop, sharing information with Tableau Server, understanding Tableau functions and calculations, and Use Cases for Tableau Software. - Includes little-known, as well as more advanced features and techniques, using detailed, real-world case studies that the author has developed as part of his consulting and training practice - Explains why and how Tableau differs from traditional business information analysis tools - Shows you how to deploy dashboards and visualizations throughout the enterprise - Provides a detailed reference resource that is aimed at users of all skill levels - Depicts ways to leverage Tableau across the value chain in the enterprise through case studies that target common business requirements - Endorsed by Tableau Software Tableau Your Data shows you how to build dynamic, best-of-breed visualizations using the Tableau Software toolset. Tableau Your Data! is a comprehensive guide to the effective use of the Tableau Software toolset for data visualization. It covers the core feature set for data analytics, illustrating best practices for creating and sharing effective visualizations that support timely business decision-making. The author also covers little-known as well as more advanced features and techniques, illustrating them using detailed, real-world case studies that the author has developed as part of his consulting and training practice. The book will be divided into 4 parts. Part 1 - Analyzing Data with Tableau Desktop -- briefly explains why and how Tableau differs from traditional business information analysis tools. The reader will learn how to join files, blend data from disparate data, and build compelling visualizations that leverage Tableau's "Show Me" facility as well as ways to adjust Tableau's default settings in order to build more advanced chart types. The author also shows effective ways to perform ad hoc visual analysis and performance-tune dashboards. Part 2 - Sharing Information with Tableau Server - shows how to deploy dashboards and visualizations to information consumers throughout the enterprise. Best practices for managing users, ensuring data security, and scaling to a large user-base will be covered. The full spectrum of ways reports can be consumed will be detailed including Tableau Server's native environment, embedding dashboards in websites, and publishing for consumption tablet computers - iPad or Android. Part 3 - Understanding Tableau Functions and Calculations - will provide a detailed reference resource that will appeal to all users of all skill levels. Formula examples for Tableau's (116) functions will go beyond Tableau's manual by providing more detailed syntax, explanations, and examples. Part 4 - Use Cases for Tableau Software - depicts ways to leverage Tableau across the value chain in the enterprise through case studies that target common business requirements including: Analysis of sales, marketing, and CRM data Analysis of financial and operational data Analysis of spatial data The book will cover the full feature set of the upcoming Version 8 release, scheduled for Q1 2013. The book's companion website will provide links to useful web-based resources, and actual working models of the visualizations presented in the book. Annotation Best practices and step-by-step instructions for using the Tableau Software toolsetAlthough the Tableau Desktop interface is relatively intuitive, this book goes beyond the simple mechanics of the interface to show best practices for creating effective visualizations for specific business intelligence objectives. It illustrates little-known features and techniques for getting the most from the Tableau toolset, supporting the needs of the business analysts who use the product as well as the data and IT managers who support it. This comprehensive guide covers the core feature set for data analytics, illustrating best practices for creating and sharing specific types of dynamic data visualizations. Featuring a helpful full-color layout, the book covers analyzing data with Tableau Desktop, sharing information with Tableau Server, understanding Tableau functions and calculations, and Use Cases for Tableau Software. Includes little-known, as well as more advanced features and techniques, using detailed, real-world case studies that the author has developed as part of his consulting and training practiceExplains why and how Tableau differs from traditional business information analysis toolsShows you how to deploy dashboards and visualizations throughout the enterpriseProvides a detailed reference resource that is aimed at users of all skill levelsDepicts ways to leverage Tableau across the value chain in the enterprise through case studies that target common business requirementsEndorsed by Tableau SoftwareTableau Your Data shows you how to build dynamic, best-of-breed visualizations using the Tableau Software toolset Tableau Your Data! shows you how to build dynamic, best of breed visualizations using the Tableau Software toolset. This comprehensive guide covers the core feature set for data analytics, and provides clear step-by-step guidance toward best practices and advanced techniques that go way beyond the user manual. You'll learn how Tableau is different from traditional business information analysis tools, and how to navigate your way around the Tableau 9.0 desktop before delving into functions and calculations, as well as sharing with the Tableau Server. Daniel G. Murray And The Interworks Bi Team. Includes Index.