Learning Tableau Made Easy - Softcover

Murphy, Indera E

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1935208373 ISBN 13: 9781935208372

Publisher: Tolana Publishing, 2017

Synopsis

A Step-By-Step Guide To Learning Tableau 10 Quickly!

Learning Tableau Made Easy covers what you need to quickly get up to speed to create charts, dashboards and stories.

If you are new to Tableau and think that the software is complicated, this is the book for you. This book goes step-by-step to help you become skilled using Tableau in a very short time. Tableau provides a modern approach to viewing data, mostly in a graphical format. What makes Tableau popular, is its ability to support large amounts of data, from a variety of data sources.

This book cuts to the chase because it does not have pages and pages of "technical mumbo jumbo", that you may have seen in some other books. This book focuses on step-by-step instructions on how to connect to data and create charts. There are also a lot of screen shots that let you know what the charts should look like. This will get you up and running quickly.

You can use Tableau Desktop or Tableau Public to complete the exercises in this book.

This book will show you how to:

• Create connections to several types of data sources
• Create and format charts
• Filter, sort and group data
• Create calculated fields and use functions
• Create parameters
• Create dashboards and stories
• And much more...

Order your copy today, so that you can get started!

About this title

About the Author

Indera Murphy is an author, IT professional and retired educator that has over 25 years of experience in the Information Technology field. Indera has written over 30 books on software topics including Crystal Reports, Power BI Tools for Excel, Dashboard Design, SQL Server Reporting Services, ACT! and Tableau. Dr. Murphy has held a variety of positions including technical writer, programmer, course developer and project leader. Indera has designed and developed software applications and web sites, as well as, managed technology driven projects. In addition to being an Executive Director, as an online adjunct professor, Indera has taught courses in a variety of areas including project management, technical writing, information processing, Excel, Access, Crystal Reports, HTML, Windows, Dreamweaver and critical thinking.

Edition details

• Publisher: Tolana Publishing
• Publication date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1935208373
• ISBN 13: 9781935208372
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 192