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Tableau Desktop Certified Associate: Exam Guide: Develop your Tableau skills and prepare for Tableau certification with tips from industry experts

Dmitry Anoshin

Makarenko

Biyani

Peri

JC Gillet +1 more

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3.7 (7 Ratings)

Paperback Dec 2019 370 pages 1st Edition

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Dmitry Anoshin

Makarenko

Biyani

Peri

JC Gillet +1 more

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3.7 (7 Ratings)

Paperback Dec 2019 370 pages 1st Edition

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Mex$504.99 ~~Mex$721.99~~

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Prepare for the Tableau Desktop Certified Associate exam with the help of tips and techniques shared by experts
Implement Tableau’s advanced analytical capabilities such as forecasting
Delve into advanced Tableau features and explore best practices for building dashboards

Description

The Tableau Desktop Certified Associate exam measures your knowledge of Tableau Desktop and your ability to work with data and data visualization techniques. This book will help you to become well-versed in Tableau software and use its business intelligence (BI) features to solve BI and analytics challenges. With the help of this book, you'll explore the authors' success stories and their experience with Tableau. You'll start by understanding the importance of Tableau certification and the different certification exams, along with covering the exam format, Tableau basics, and best practices for preparing data for analysis and visualization. The book builds on your knowledge of advanced Tableau topics such as table calculations for solving problems. You'll learn to effectively visualize geographic data using vector maps. Later, you'll discover the analytics capabilities of Tableau by learning how to use features such as forecasting. Finally, you'll understand how to build and customize dashboards, while ensuring they convey information effectively. Every chapter has examples and tests to reinforce your learning, along with mock tests in the last section. By the end of this book, you'll be able to efficiently prepare for the certification exam with the help of mock tests, detailed explanations, and expert advice from the authors.

Who is this book for?

This Tableau certification book is for business analysts, BI professionals, and data analysts who want to become certified Tableau Desktop Associates and solve a range of data science and business intelligence problems using this example-packed guide. Some experience in Tableau Desktop is expected to get the most out of this book.

What you will learn

Apply Tableau best practices to analyze and visualize data
Use Tableau to visualize geographic data using vector maps
Create charts to gain productive insights into data and make quality-driven decisions
Implement advanced analytics techniques to identify and forecast key values
Prepare customized table calculations to compute specific values
Answer questions based on the Tableau Desktop Certified Associate exam with the help of mock tests

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Product Details

Publication date : Dec 24, 2019

Length: 370 pages

Edition : 1st

Language : English

ISBN-13 : 9781838984137

Vendor :

Tableau

Category :

Data

Concepts :

Business Intelligence

Tools :

Tableau

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14 Chapters

Section 1: Getting Started with Tableau

Building Your Data Model

Technical requirements

Initial preparation

Connecting to your data

Building your data model

Section 2: Answering Questions with Data

Working with Worksheets

Introduction to worksheets

Exploring the Data and Analytics panes

Shelves and cards

Summary

Analyzing Data Using Charts

Technical requirements

Key charts in Tableau

Sorting your data

Creating filters, sets, groups, and hierarchies

Formatting your visuals

Summary

Visualizing Geographic Data

Technical requirements

Mapping basics

Map navigation

Map features – layering and custom territories

Modifying locations

Importing and managing custom geocoding

Connecting to spatial data

Using background images to plot spatial data

Creating density maps

Summary

Understanding Simple Calculations in Tableau

Technical requirements

Calculation basics

Creating calculations

Building arithmetic calculations

Building string calculations

Building date calculations

Building logical statements

Other functions

Building grand totals and subtotals

Summary

Further reading

Section 3: Advanced Tableau

Tableau Table Calculations

Technical requirements

General table calculations and background

Creating quick table calculations

Customizing table calculations

Setting up manual table calculations

Level of Detail Expressions

Technical requirements

Tableau's order of operations

FIXED LOD calculations

INCLUDE LOD calculations

EXCLUDE LOD calculations

Data source constraints for LOD

Summary

Questions

Further reading

Leveraging Analytics Capabilities

Technical requirements

Basic tools in the Tableau Analytics pane

Additional analytical options

Building Your Dashboards

Introduction to dashboards

Effective design practices

Exploring the Dashboard and Layout panes

Telling stories

Summary

Mock Test A + B (Assessment)

Mock tests A and B

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About the 5 authors

Dmitry Anoshin

Dmitry Anoshin is a data-centric technologist and a recognized expert in building and implementing big data and analytics solutions. He has a successful track record when it comes to implementing business and digital intelligence projects in numerous industries, including retail, finance, marketing, and e-commerce. Dmitry possesses in-depth knowledge of digital/business intelligence, ETL, data warehousing, and big data technologies. He has extensive experience in the data integration process and is proficient in using various data warehousing methodologies. Dmitry has constantly exceeded project expectations when he has worked in the financial, machine tool, and retail industries. He has completed a number of multinational full BI/DI solution life cycle implementation projects. With expertise in data modeling, Dmitry also has a background and business experience in multiple relation databases, OLAP systems, and NoSQL databases. He is also an active speaker at data conferences and helps people to adopt cloud analytics.

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Makarenko

Gleb Makarenko began using Tableau in 2018 and quickly fell in love with how intuitive and easy to use the software was. He was able to easily adapt to its interface and create powerful visualizations. That is when he decided to get certified on Tableau software in order to receive proper credentials that he could use on his resume, as well as learn about the intricacies of the software that he wasn't using at the time. With a bit of effort and research, Gleb was able to complete the examination. And he recommends the same to anyone who is serious about working with Tableau.

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Biyani

Radhika Biyani is currently working as a recruitment insights analyst with Amazon. Before this, she worked as an analytics consultant with Version 1, where she consulted on several large-scale BI and analytics projects with clients across various industry verticals such as HR, finance, utility, supply chain, and more. She holds a master's degree in business analytics and has many certifications, including Tableau Qualified Associate. She enjoys attending meetups and is an active member of many meetup groups, including Tableau User Group Dublin.

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Peri

Fabian Peri's interest in decision analysis started after joining his first fantasy basketball league in 2006. His love for data analysis led him to pursue an MBA in information systems at the University of Tulsa, and then an MSc in predictive analytics from Northwestern University. Since graduating, he has primarily worked in risk analysis and management for companies such as Amazon, GE Capital, and Wells Fargo. He is currently focused on using visualization to explore and interpret vast quantities of data.

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JC Gillet

Jean-Charles (JC) Gillet is a seasoned business analyst with over 7 years of experience with SQL at both a large-scale multinational company in the United Kingdom and a smaller firm in the United States, and 5 years of Tableau experience. He has been working with Tableau and SQL for multiple years to share his expertise with his colleagues, as well as delivering SQL training. A French national, JC holds a master's degree in executive engineering from Mines ParisTech and is a Tableau Desktop Certified Associate. In his free time, he enjoys spending time with his wife and daughter (to whom he dedicates his work on this book) and playing team handball, having competed in national championships.

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