Mastering Tableau 2026 : implement advanced data visualizations, BI techniques and AI-powered analytics with Tableau / Marleen Meier.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Meier, Marleen, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Tableau (Computer file).

Information visualization--Computer programs.

Information visualization.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Edition:

Fifth edition.

Place of Publication:

Birmingham : Packt Publishing, 2026.

Summary:

Build, design, and improve advanced business intelligence solutions using Tableau's newest updates, including Tableau Desktop, Prep Builder, Server, and AI-powered features to drive data-driven decision-making.Free with your book: DRM-free PDF version + access to Packt's next-gen Reader* Key Features Build advanced Tableau dashboards and data...

Contents:

Intro

Mastering Tableau 2026

Implement advanced data visualizations, BI techniques and AI-powered analytics with Tableau.

Foreword

Contributors

About the author

About the reviewer

Table of Contents

Preface

Who this book is for

What this book covers

To get the most out of this book

Download the example code files

Conventions used

Get in touch

Free benefits with your book

How to Unlock

Share your thoughts

1

Reviewing the Basics

Creating worksheets and dashboards

Tableau Public

Creating worksheets

Creating a visualization

Beyond the default behavior

Sorting and nested sorting

Show Me

Creating dashboards

Building a dashboard

Adding interactivity to a dashboard

Connecting Tableau to your data

Connecting to a file

Connecting to Tableau Server

Connecting to saved data sources

Measure Names and Measure Values

Measure Names and Measure Values shortcuts

Three essential Tableau concepts

Dimensions and measures

Row-level, aggregate-level, and table-level calculations

Continuous and discrete values

Exporting data to other devices

Exporting data to a mobile phone

Tableau Mobile

Follow-along dashboard using basics

Summary

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2

Cleaning Your Data

Preparing datasets

Surveying data

Establishing null values

Extrapolating data

Cleaning messy data

Cleaning the data

Extracting data

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3

Using Tableau Prep Builder

Connecting to data

The Prep GUI

Data quality

Cleaning data

Unions and joins

Adding unions

Wildcard unions

Adding joins

Aggregating

Multi-row Calculations

Pivoting

Scripting

Additional options with Prep

Insert flow

Auto-save for Web Flows

Incremental refresh

Bulk rename

Tableau Prep Conductor

Command line automation

Exporting data

4

Learning About Joins, Blends, and Data Structures

Introduction to relationships

Working with joins

Join queries

Join calculations

Spatial joins

Understanding unions

Do we still need blends?

Exploring the order of operations

Adding secondary dimensions

Introducing scaffolding

Understanding data structures

Follow-along dashboard using relationships

5

Introducing Table Calculations

Partition and direction of addressing

Directional and non-directional addressing

Lookup and Total

Previous Value

Running

Window

First and Last

Index

Rank

Size

Application of functions

Building a playground

Partitioning and addressing with one dimension

Partitioning and addressing with two dimensions

Partitioning and addressing with three dimensions

Guidelines

Follow-along dashboard using table calculations

Summary

Notes:

OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

ISBN:

9781806100712

OCLC:

1585501086

Publisher Number:

CIPO000367333