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Creating Data Stories with Tableau Public

Illustrate your data in a more interactive and interesting way using Tableau Public

Publisher:Packt Publishing Limited
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|Jan 2025
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Description

Illustrate your data in a more interactive and interesting way using Tableau Public

Key Features

    Book Description

    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. 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 to bring a richness and vibrancy to complex articles.
    The book takes you from basic concepts in visualization creation, like connecting to data sources, cleansing data, chart types, common functions, map creation, and publishing to the Web, to more advanced functions.
    It is a great overview and reference guide for beginner to intermediate Tableau Public data story tellers, and covers creation of Tableau Public visualizations of varying complexities.

    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

    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.

    Table of Contents

    1. Getting Started with Tableau Public
    2. Tableau Public Interface Features
    3. Connecting to Data
    4. Visualization Tips and Types
    5. Calculations
    6. Level of Detail and Table Calculations
    7. Dashboard Design and Styling
    8. Filters and Actions
    9. Publishing Your Work
    PDF ISBN: 978-1-84969-477-3
    Publisher: Packt Publishing Limited
    Copyright owner: © 2015 Packt Publishing Limited
    Publication date: 2025
    Language: English
    Pages: 218
    Related subjects:
    Computer sciences,
    Computer sciences, other
    BISAC subjects:
    COM089000,
    COM062000
    Thema subjects:
    UYZF,
    UNC,
    UNA,
    UYZM

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