Pro Tableau: A Step-by-step Guide - Couverture souple

Acharya, Seema; Chellappan, Subhashini

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1484223519 ISBN 13 : 9781484223512

Editeur : APress, 2016

Synopsis

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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

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.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: APress
• Date d'édition: 2016
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1484223519
• ISBN 13: 9781484223512
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 845
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible