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Tableau 10 Business Intelligence Cookbook

You're reading from Tableau 10 Business Intelligence Cookbook Create powerful, effective visualizations with Tableau 10

Product type Paperback

Published in Nov 2016

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781786465634

Length 476 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

Tableau

Concepts

Business Intelligence

Authors (2):

Donabel Santos

Paul Banoub

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Table of Contents (17) Chapters

Tableau 10 Business Intelligence Cookbook

Credits

About the Author

Acknowledgements

About the Reviewer

www.PacktPub.com

Preface

1. Basic Charts

2. Advanced Charts FREE CHAPTER

3. Interactivity

4. Dashboards and Story Points

5. Maps and Geospatial Visualization

6. Analytics

7. Data Preparation

Calculated Fields Primer

Resources

Index

Using the legacy Jet driver

In this recipe, we will use the New York Restaurant Inspections Excel file and use the legacy Jet driver to shape the file so we can have both the inspection date and grade date in the same column. This will allow us to visualize how many restaurants were inspected and graded for a specific date:

Getting ready

To follow this recipe, download the file from the New York City Open Data website using the following URL:

https://nycopendata.socrata.com/Health/DOHMH-New-York-City-Restaurant-Inspection-Results/xx67-kt59/data

Once you have downloaded the data, save the file as DOHMH_New_York_City_Restaurant_Inspection_Results.xls (Microsoft Excel 97-2003 Worksheet). Note that the records may have been updated between the time of writing and the time of your download.

How to do it...

Here are the steps to prepare the Excel file:

Click on New Data Source icon, and choose Excel:
Choose DOHMH_New_York_City_Restaurant_Inspection_Results.xls, and select Open with Legacy Connection...

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Authors (2)

Donabel Santos

Donabel Santos

Donabel Santos is a self-confessed data geek. She loves working with data, writing queries, and developing reports on her SQL Server databases, and exploring and visualizing data with Tableau. She is the principal and senior business intelligence architect at QueryWorks Solutions, a Tableau Learning and Alliance partner in Vancouver, BC, Canada, providing consulting and training services. She has spent years in consulting and has developed a variety of solutions for clients in different verticals—finance, manufacturing, healthcare, legal, higher education, and local government. Donabel is a multi-year Microsoft Data Platform MVP (previously known as SQL Server MVP) and has extensive experience in the SQL server in different areas, such as development, administration, data warehouse, reporting (SSRS), tuning, troubleshooting, XML, CLR, and integration with ERPs and CRMs using PowerShell, C#, SSIS, and Power BI. One of Donabel's passions is teaching and sharing her love for data. She is a Tableau Certified Professional and a Tableau accredited trainer, delivering Tableau public and on-site client training. She is also the lead instructor for a number of courses at British Columbia Institute of Technology (BCIT), including Applied Database Administration and Design (ADAD) and Applied Data Analytics (ADA) programs. She teaches SQL server administration, development, integration (SSIS), data warehouse foundations, and visual analytics with Tableau. Donabel has also authored three other books with Packt Publishing: SQL Server 2012 with PowerShell V3 Cookbook, PowerShell for SQL Server Essentials, and SQL Server 2014 with PowerShell V5 Cookbook. She also contributed a chapter to Manning Publications' PowerShell Deep Dives.

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Paul Banoub

Paul Banoub

Contacted on: 18/12/2015 for Mastering Tableau 10 [video]

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