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Learning Tableau 2019

You're reading from   Learning Tableau 2019 Tools for Business Intelligence, data prep, and visual analytics

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Product type Paperback
Published in Mar 2019
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788839525
Length 504 pages
Edition 3rd Edition
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Joshua N. Milligan Joshua N. Milligan
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Table of Contents (18) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Section 1: Tableau Foundations FREE CHAPTER
2. Taking Off with Tableau 3. Working with Data in Tableau 4. Venturing on to Advanced Visualizations 5. Section 2: Leveraging the Full Power of Tableau
6. Starting an Adventure with Calculations 7. Diving Deep with Table Calculations 8. Making Visualizations That Look Great and Work Well 9. Telling a Data Story with Dashboards 10. Digging Deeper - Trends, Clustering, Distributions, and Forecasting 11. Section 3: Data Prep and Structuring
12. Cleaning and Structuring Messy Data 13. Introducing Tableau Prep 14. Section 4: Advanced Techniques and Sharing with Others
15. Advanced Visualizations, Techniques, Tips, and Tricks 16. Sharing Your Data Story 17. Other Books You May Enjoy

Dealing with data structure issues

In some cases, restructuring data at the source is not an option. The source may be secured and read-only, or you might not even have access to the original data and instead receive periodic dumps of data in a specific format. In such cases, there are techniques for dealing with structural issues once you have connected to the data in Tableau.

We'll consider some examples of data structure issues to demonstrate various techniques for handling those issues in Tableau. None of the solutions are the only right way to resolve the given issue. Often, there are several approaches that might work. Additionally, these are only examples of issues you might encounter. Take some time to understand how the proposed solutions build on the foundational principals we've considered in previous chapters and how you can use similar techniques to solve...

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