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Visual Analytics with Tableau

You're reading from   Visual Analytics with Tableau A four-color journey through a complete Tableau visualization

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Product type Paperback
Published in May 2017
Publisher Wiley
ISBN-13 9781119560203
Length 288 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (16) Chapters Close

1. Cover FREE CHAPTER
2. Foreword by Nate Vogel
3. Foreword by Sophie Sparkes
4. Introduction 5. Chapter 1: Introduction and Getting Started with Tableau 6. Chapter 2: Adding Data Sources in Tableau 7. Chapter 3: Creating Data Visualizations 8. Chapter 4: Aggregate Functions, Calculated Fields, and Parameters 9. Chapter 5: Table Calculations and Level of Detail Calculations 10. Chapter 6: Maps 11. Chapter 7: Advanced Analytics: Trends, Forecasts, Clusters, and other Statistical Tools 12. Chapter 8: Interactive Dashboards 13. Chapter 9: Sharing Insights with Colleagues and the World 14. Chapter 10: Data Preparation with Tableau Prep 15. Index
16. End User License Agreement

ADDITIONAL CONNECTIONS

The files for the different years of the South region were easily combined in a union, because they are all in the same folder and have the same structure. But the files for the other regions can't be integrated as easily. For the other regions, you have one file each, and as you will see, they each have problems that you will need to take care of first.

You can select all three regions at the same time and add them to the flow as individual input steps. To do so, click the plus symbol in the Connections pane again to create another connection. As before, select Text File. Navigate to the same parent folder, and select the following two files while holding the Ctrl key (PC) or Cmd key (Mac): Orders_Central.csv and Orders_West.csv (see Figure 10.6).

Screenshot of how multiple files are selected in the Open dialog, with options such as folder name, date modified, type, and size.

Figure 10.6 Multiple files are selected in the Open dialog.

Both files now appear in the Connections pane, from which you can drag them to the Flow pane. The flow now has three input steps (see Figure 10.7).

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