Communicating Data with Tableau: Designing, Developing, and Delivering Data Visualizations

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. You’ll 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 many
• Use blended data sources to create ratios and rates
• Create charts to depict proportions and percentages
• Visualize measures of mean, median, and mode
• Lean how to deal with variation and uncertainty
• Communicate multiple quantities in the same view
• Show how quantities and events change over time
• Use maps to communicate positional data
• Build dashboards to combine several visualizations

• Visualization Analysis and Design (AK Peters Visualization Series)
• Practical Tableau: 100 Tips, Tutorials, and Strategies from a Tableau Zen Master
• Data Points: Visualization That Means Something
• Data Fluency: Empowering Your Organization with Effective Data Communication
• The Truthful Art: Data, Charts, and Maps for Communication (Voices That Matter)
• Tableau Your Data!: Fast and Easy Visual Analysis with Tableau Software
• Storytelling with Data: A Data Visualization Guide for Business Professionals
• The Big Book of Dashboards: Visualizing Your Data Using Real-World Business Scenarios
• Visual Analytics with Tableau
• #MakeoverMonday: Improving How We Visualize and Analyze Data, One Chart at a Time