Communicating Data with Tableau

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Go beyond spreadsheets and tables and design a data presentation that really makes an impact. This practical guide shows you how to use Tableau Software to convert raw data into compelling data visualizations that provide insight or allow viewers to explore the data for themselves.

Ideal for analysts, engineers, marketers, journalists, and researchers, this book describes the principles of communicating data and takes you on an in-depth tour of common visualization methods. ...

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Overview

Go beyond spreadsheets and tables and design a data presentation that really makes an impact. This practical guide shows you how to use Tableau Software to convert raw data into compelling data visualizations that provide insight or allow viewers to explore the data for themselves.

Ideal for analysts, engineers, marketers, journalists, and researchers, this book describes the principles of communicating data and takes you on an in-depth tour of common visualization methods. You’ll learn how to craft articulate and creative data visualizations with Tableau Desktop 8.1 and Tableau Public 8.1.

  • Present comparisons of how much and how many
  • Use blended data sources to create ratios and rates
  • Create charts to depict proportions and percentages
  • Visualize measures of mean, median, and mode
  • Lean how to deal with variation and uncertainty
  • Communicate multiple quantities in the same view
  • Show how quantities and events change over time
  • Use maps to communicate positional data
  • Build dashboards to combine several visualizations
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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9781449372026
  • Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Incorporated
  • Publication date: 7/11/2014
  • Edition number: 1
  • Pages: 334
  • Sales rank: 321507
  • Product dimensions: 6.00 (w) x 8.90 (h) x 0.80 (d)

Meet the Author

Ben Jones is an award winning Tableau Public author, and is also the Tableau Public product marketing manager at Tableau Software in Seattle, WA. With over 12 years of experience as an engineer, Lean Six Sigma Master Black Belt and Business Analytics manager for a Fortune 500 company, Ben worked on data-driven projects for every department, from facilities to finance.

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