Communicating Data with Tableau (eBook)

Designing, Developing, and Delivering Data Visualizations

Ben Jones (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2014
334 Seiten
O'Reilly Media (Verlag)
978-1-4493-7198-2 (ISBN)

Infos

Go beyond spreadsheets and tables and design a data presentation that really makes an impact. This practical guide shows you how to use Tableau Software to convert raw data into compelling data visualizations that provide insight or allow viewers to explore the data for themselves.Ideal for analysts, engineers, marketers, journalists, and researchers, this book describes the principles of communicating data and takes you on an in-depth tour of common visualization methods. Youll learn how to craft articulate and creative data visualizations with Tableau Desktop 8.1 and Tableau Public 8.1.Present comparisons of how much and how manyUse blended data sources to create ratios and ratesCreate charts to depict proportions and percentagesVisualize measures of mean, median, and modeLean how to deal with variation and uncertaintyCommunicate multiple quantities in the same viewShow how quantities and events change over timeUse maps to communicate positional dataBuild dashboards to combine several visualizations

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 16.6.2014
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Informatik ► Datenbanken ► Data Warehouse / Data Mining
• Themenwelt: Mathematik / Informatik ► Informatik ► Theorie / Studium
• ISBN-10: 1-4493-7198-1 / 1449371981
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4493-7198-2 / 9781449371982