Pro Tableau: A Step-By-Step Guide by Acharya, Seema

Pro Tableau: A Step-By-Step Guide (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781484223512)

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Pro Tableau: A Step-By-Step Guide by Acharya, Seema

Pro Tableau: A Step-By-Step Guide

$84.99
Pro Tableau: A Step-By-Step Guide by Acharya, Seema

Pro Tableau: A Step-By-Step Guide

$84.99
Format: Paperback
Description
Description
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Leverage the power of visualization in business intelligence and data science to make quicker and better decisions. Use statistics and data mining to make compelling and interactive dashboards. This book will help those familiar with Tableau software chart their journey to being a visualization expert.

Pro Tableau demonstrates the power of visual analytics and teaches you how to:

  • Connect to various data sources such as spreadsheets, text files, relational databases (Microsoft SQL Server, MySQL, etc.), non-relational databases (NoSQL such as MongoDB, Cassandra), R data files, etc.
  • Write your own custom SQL, etc.
  • Perform statistical analysis in Tableau using R
  • Use a multitude of charts (pie, bar, stacked bar, line, scatter plots, dual axis, histograms, heat maps, tree maps, highlight tables, box and whisker, etc.)

What you'll learn

  • Connect to various data sources such as relational databases (Microsoft SQL Server, MySQL), non-relational databases (NoSQL such as MongoDB, Cassandra), write your own custom SQL, join and blend data sources, etc.
  • Leverage table calculations (moving average, year over year growth, LOD (Level of Detail), etc.
  • Integrate Tableau with R
  • Tell a compelling story with data by creating highly interactive dashboards

Who this book is for

All levels of IT professionals, from executives responsible for determining IT strategies to systems administrators, to data analysts, to decision makers responsible for driving strategic initiatives, etc. The book will help those familiar with Tableau software chart their journey to a visualization expert.


Author: Seema Acharya, Subhashini Chellappan
ISBN-10: 1484223519
ISBN-13: 9781484223512
Publisher: Apress
Language: English
Published: 12/24/2016
Pages: 845
Format: Paperback
Weight: 3.27lbs
Size: 10.00h x 7.00w x 1.73d
By Seema Acharya
By Seema Acharya
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Seema Acharya is a Lead Principal with the Education, Training and Assessment department of Infosys Limited. She is an educator by choice and vocation, and has rich experience in both academia and the software industry. She is also the author of the books, "Fundamentals of Business Analytics", ISBN: 978-81-265-3203-2, publisher - Wiley India and "Big Data and Analytics", ISBN: 9788126554782, publisher - Wiley India. She has co-authored a paper on "Collaborative Engineering Competency Development" for ASEE (American Society for Engineering Education). She holds the patent on "Method and system for automatically generating questions for a programming language". Her areas of interest and expertise are centered on Business Intelligence, Big Data and Analytics technologies such as Data Warehousing, Data Mining, Data Analytics, Text Mining and Data Visualisation.
Subhashini Chellappan is a Software Engineering Team Lead with the talent division of Accenture. She has rich experience in both academia and the software industry.She has published couple of papers in various Journals and Conferences.Her areas of interest and expertise are centered on Business Intelligence, Big Data and Analytics technologies such as Hadoop, NoSQL Databases, Spark and Machine Learning.

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