Creating data stories with Tableau Public illustrate your data in a more interactive and interesting way using Tableau Public

The relative ease of Tableau Public visualization creation allows data stories to be developed rapidly. It allows readers to explore data associations in multiple-sourced public data, and uses state-of-the-art dashboard and chart graphics to immerse the users in an interactive experience. This book...

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Main Authors: Ohmann, Ashley, Floyd, Matt (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Birmingham, UK Packt Publishing 2015
Series:Community experience distilled
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505 0 |a Cover -- Copyright -- Credits -- About the Author -- Acknowledgments -- About the Author -- About the Reviewer -- www.PacktPub.com -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Chapter 1: Getting Started with Tableau Public -- A Tableau Public overview -- Telling your story with Tableau Public -- Installing Tableau Public -- Exploring Tableau Public -- Connecting to data -- Opening files and creating your profile -- Discover -- Exploring the visualizations of other authors -- Summary -- Chapter 2: Tableau Public Interface Features -- Touring the Tableau Public user interface -- The side bar -- The Data pane -- Visual cues -- The Analytics pane -- Menus and toolbars -- Canvas and Column/Row shelves -- Using the Columns and Rows shelves -- Using the Marks card -- The Filters and Pages shelves -- The workspace control tabs of Tableau Public -- The Show Me tool -- Summary -- Chapter 3: Connecting to Data -- Public data -- Tables and databases -- The data sources that Tableau Public connects to -- The databases, tables, dimensions, facts, field formats and conventions -- Connecting to the data in Tableau Public -- The data source user interface -- Using the data interpreter -- Pivoting data -- Filtering data sources -- Joining tables -- Connecting to web-based data sources -- Summary -- Chapter 4: Visualization -- Tips and Types -- An overview of the development lifecycle -- Ten visualization tips -- The perception of visual clues -- Using the Show Me tool to create charts -- Answering questions using Show Me chart types -- About dimensions and measures -- Continuous and discrete dimensions and measures -- Selecting aggregation types for measures -- Swapping and sorting -- Types of visualization -- Line graphs -- Continuous versus discrete date-time elements -- Tables -- Bar charts -- Geographic maps -- Scatter plots -- Pie charts -- Using groups and sets 
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520 |a The relative ease of Tableau Public visualization creation allows data stories to be developed rapidly. It allows readers to explore data associations in multiple-sourced public data, and uses state-of-the-art dashboard and chart graphics to immerse the users in an interactive experience. This book offers investigative journalists, bloggers, and other data story tellers a rich discussion of visualization creation topics, features, and functions. This book allows data story tellers to quickly gain confidence in understanding and expanding their visualization-creation knowledge, and allows them to quickly create interesting, interactive data visualizations.. 
520 |a What You Will Learn Connect to various data sources and understand what data is appropriate for Tableau Public Understand chart types and when to use specific chart types with different types of data Join and aggregate data for use in Tableau Public data stories Discover features of Tableau Public, from basic to advanced Involve calculations in Tableau Public Build geographic maps to bring context to data Create dashboards from one or more separate data visualizations Create filters and actions to allow greater interactivity to Tableau Public visualizations and dashboards Publish and embed Tableau visualizations and dashboards in articles In Detail Tableau Public is a very useful tool in anyone's data reporting toolbox that allows authors to add an interactive data element to any article. It allows investigative journalists and bloggers to tell a ?data story?, allowing others to explore your data visualization.  
520 |a Illustrate your data in a more interactive and interesting way using Tableau Public About This Book Learn the basics of creating visualizations with Tableau using this concise reference book Understand how to join and aggregate your data sources using Tableau It is a step by step guide that uses examples to help you understand the key concepts and feature of Tableau Public Who This Book Is For This book is targeted at investigative journalists and bloggers with an interest in making rich and interactive data visualizations. Intermediate Tableau Public users and organizations can also use this book as a reference guide and teaching aid. Members of the media team, such as data specialists, web developers, editors, producers, and managers can also benefit from an understanding of the structure and challenges of writing an interactive and interesting data visualization using Tableau Public.