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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

INSPECTING THE DATA

Your goal is, of course, to bring all the different tables together. Before you do that, you should check whether the data is in the same format and whether there are any other issues that you need to address.

By clicking each of the input steps, you can get more information about the data behind it from the summary table in the bottom panel. When you look at it, you may decide, for example, that some of the fields are superfluous and can be removed. Other fields may have been assigned the wrong data type, which is something that needs to be corrected.

We have already examined the input step for orders_south_. So, you can go to the newly added input steps to check whether the data has...

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