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Learning Tableau 2019

You're reading from Learning Tableau 2019 Tools for Business Intelligence, data prep, and visual analytics

Product type Paperback

Published in Mar 2019

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781788839525

Length 504 pages

Edition 3rd Edition

Tools

Tableau

Concepts

Business Intelligence

Author (1):

Joshua N. Milligan

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Table of Contents (19) Chapters

Title Page

Copyright and Credits

About Packt

Contributors

Preface

1. Taking Off with Tableau FREE CHAPTER

2. Working with Data in Tableau

3. Venturing on to Advanced Visualizations

4. Starting an Adventure with Calculations

5. Diving Deep with Table Calculations

6. Making Visualizations That Look Great and Work Well

7. Telling a Data Story with Dashboards

8. Digging Deeper - Trends, Clustering, Distributions, and Forecasting

9. Cleaning and Structuring Messy Data

10. Introducing Tableau Prep

11. Advanced Visualizations, Techniques, Tips, and Tricks

12. Sharing Your Data Story

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Authors (1)

Joshua N. Milligan

Joshua N. Milligan

Joshua N. Milligan is a Hall of Fame Tableau Visionary (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 Resultant, where he has served clients in numerous industries since 2004.

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