Tableau Your Data! by Murray, Daniel G. -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Titlepage Copyright About the Author About the Technical Editor Acknowledgments Introduction: Overview of the Book and Technology

How This Book Is Organized Who Should Read This Book? Tools You Will Need What's on the Companion Website? Summary

Part I: Desktop

Chapter 1: Creating Visual Analytics with Tableau Desktop

The Shortcomings of Traditional Information Analysis The Business Case for Visual Analysis Tableau’s Desktop Tools Introducing the Tableau Desktop Workspace Summary

Chapter 2: Connecting to Your Data Chapter 3: Building Your First Visualization Chapter 4: Creating Calculations to Enhance Data

What Is Aggregation? What Are Calculated Fields and Table Calculations?

Chapter 5: Using Maps to Improve Insight

New Map Features Creating a Standard Map View

Chapter 6: Developing an Ad Hoc Analysis Environment

Data Discovery as a Creative Process Providing Self-Service Ad Hoc Analysis with Parameters

Chapter 7: Tips, Tricks, and Timesavers

Saving Time and Improving Formatting Customizing Shapes, Colors, Fonts, and Images Advanced Chart Types

Chapter 8: Bringing It All Together with Dashboards

How Dashboards Facilitate Analysis and Understanding How Tableau Improves the Dashboard-Building Process The Wrong Way to Build a Dashboard The Right Way to Build a Dashboard Building Your First Advanced Dashboard Sharing Your Dashboard with Tableau Reader Using the Tableau Performance Recorder to Improve Load Speed Sharing Dashboards with Tableau Online or Tableau Server

Chapter 9: Designing for Mobile

The Physics of Mobile Consumption Security Considerations for Mobile Consumption Offline Access Typical Mobile Usage Patterns Design Best Practices for Mobile Consumption A Tablet Dashboard Example Mobile Authoring and Editing A Note on Project Elastic

Chapter 10: Conveying Your Findings with Stories

Turning Analysis into Insight Building a Story Formatting Story Points Sharing Your Story Point Deck

Part II: Server

Chapter 11: Installing Tableau Server

What’s New in Version 9? Reasons to Deploy Tableau Server Licensing Options for Tableau Server and Tableau Online Determining Your Hardware and Software Needs New Feature: Persistent Query Cache Determining What Kind of Server License to Purchase Tableau Server’s Architecture Sizing the Server Hardware Environmental Factors That Can Affect Performance Configuring Tableau Server for the First Time Security Options Managing Ownership Through Hierarchy Permissions What Is the Data Server? When and How to Deploy Server on Multiple Physical Boxes Deploying Tableau Server in High Availability Environments Leveraging Existing Security with Trusted Authentication Deploying Tableau Server in Multi-National Environments Tableau Server Performance Recorder Performance-Tuning Tactics Managing Tableau Server in the Cloud Monitoring Activity on Tableau Server Editing Server Settings and Monitoring Licensing Partner Add-on Toolkits

Chapter 12: Managing Tableau Server

Managing Published Dashboards in Tableau Server Navigating Tableau Server Organizing Reports for Consumption Options for Securing Reports Improve Efficiency with the Data Server Consuming Information in Tableau Server Authoring and Editing Reports via Server What Is Required to Author Reports on the Web? Saving and Exporting via the Web-Tablet Environment Sharing Connections, Data Models, and Data Extracts Embedding Tableau Reports Securely on the Web When Your Reports Are a Piece of a Larger SaaS Offering Using Trusted Ticket Authentication as an Alternative Single Sign-on Method Using Subscriptions to Deliver Reports via E-mail

Chapter 13: Automating Tableau Server

Tableau Server’s APIs What Do tabcmd and tabadmin Do? Automating Extracts with the Extract API REST API

Part III: Case Studies

Chapter 14: Ensuring a Successful Tableau Deployment

Deploying Tableau—Lessons Learned Effective Use of Consultants The Tableau User Group at Cigna Taking Care of Vizness

Part IV: Appendixes

Appendix A: Tableau’s Product Ecosystem

Tableau Desktop Tableau Server Tableau Online Tableau Public Tableau Reader Tableau Mobile Project Elastic Power Tools for Tableau

Appendix B: Supported Data Source Connections

Windows Connections Mac OS X Connections

Appendix C: Keyboard Shortcuts Appendix D: Recommended Hardware Configurations

Tableau Desktop for Windows: Professional and Personal Editions Tableau Desktop for Mac OS X: Professional and Personal Editions Virtual Environments Tableau Server Web Browsers Hardware Guidelines Tableau Server User Authentication and Security Virtual Environments Internationalization

Appendix E: Understanding Tableau Functions

Organization and Key for Appendix E R Integration via Script Functions Other Specialized Functions Alphabetical Function List—Summary

Appendix F: Companion Website Glossary

End-User License Agreement