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Getting Started with Tableau 2018.x

You're reading from   Getting Started with Tableau 2018.x Get up and running with the new features of Tableau 2018 for impactful data visualization

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788838689
Length 396 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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David Pires David Pires
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Tristan Guillevin Tristan Guillevin
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Preface 1. Catching Up with Tableau 2018 FREE CHAPTER 2. The Tableau Core 3. A First Dashboard and Exploration 4. Connect to Data and Simple Transformations 5. Build an Efficient Data Source 6. Design Insightful Visualizations - Part 1 7. Design Insightful Visualizations - Part 2 8. Create Powerful Dashboards and Stories 9. Publish and Interact in Tableau Server 10. An Introduction to Calculations 11. Analytics and Parameters 12. Advanced Data Connections 13. Deal with Security 14. How to Keep Growing Your Skills 15. Other Books You May Enjoy

Create a first set of visualizations

After clicking on Sheet 1, you enter the Worksheet workplace. Here is where you create visualizations. One Worksheet answers one question.

You can also see that your data source is divided between Dimensions and Measures (please refer to Chapter 2The Tableau Core, in the Measure and Dimension section). Let's create our first visualization.

Sales and profit by sub-categories – bar chart

The first question we'll answer is: what are the product sub-categories that generate the most sales and profits? Let's find out how to do that:

  1. Double-click on Sales in the Data Source. You should now see one bar. If you put the mouse...
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