Learning Tableau 2020: Create effective data visualizations, build interactive visual analytics, and transform your organization, 4th Edition

I teach Data Visualization and this book is simple and information well-conveyed enough to walk through and teach students new to visualing data. I use this as a refresher and can never go wrong.

I've nearly completed this book. Read enough to know it conveyed a great learning experience. Very thorough and very well organized. I'll feel like an expert once completed. Thanks!

It doesn't contain the appendix which is mentioned in several places in the book.

Cleary explains complex topics.

Who's read Learning #Tableau 2020 by Joshua Milligan? 🙋‍♂️ 🙋‍♀️ 📚 📈If not, you need to. This is a key tool in any data professional's toolbox 🧰.I recently finished it - many thanks to ∞ Ravit Jain ∞ and Packt for the copy - and as you might imagine, I have thoughts... 🤔First, don't get scared by the size of it. It's darn near 600 pages, but lots of that is graphs and examples. You're not exactly plowing through Game of Thrones here. ⚔It's probably 100 or so pages of text, which is very manageable for a computer program guide.Milligan's writing style is very approachable and understandable. It's written in a conversational tone with plenty of real-world examples and use cases thrown in throughout.The book kicks off with a crawl-walk-run approach. If you just want to get started, you really only need the first two chapters to get off and running. After that, you'll know how to connect to basic data sets and make vizzes out of them.The book then delves into-calculations and spreadsheet functions-more complex, dynamic visualizations-basic and dynamic dashboards-higher statistical functions (regressions, clustering)-map functions- #SQL -style joins- ETL and data cleaningIt is a definitive and easy-to-use handbook, and we'll worth the $38 sticker price.

I have been reviewing the Packt book titled, "Learning Tableau 2020" by Joshua Milligan a Tableau Zen Master and have completely enjoyed it! Joshua takes us through the basics of installing Tableau and walks us through some popular chart types.The book is easy to read and has exceptional examples showing specific steps to complete each task. Joshua also gives us reasons behind the different chart types and truly helps you connect data to meaning.There is great content here for advanced data visualization with deep dives into creating calculated fields, working with LOD (Level of detail calculations) and Table calculations again with the same easy to read and understand examples.This book is a must have for any serious Tableau developers collection! It will help you learn and grow from the basics through to everything a professional business intelligence analyst needs to know about Tableau!I highly recommend it

A lot of attention is given to the bells, whistles and eye-candy of Tableau. Little attention is given to the topic of analysis itself. At the nuts-and-bolts level, common challenges aren't given enough treatment; for example, the fifteen pages given to data connections only covers ideal scenarios.The Index is sloppy. It's incomplete: I find myself jotting in missing topics page references. Different file types such as .tbw, .tda aren't found (a list under "file types" would be sensible). "Analysis" gets ONE reference (with a subheading, "enhancing, with animation"). I've said the book neglects that topic, but still, there is much more than you would guess from the Index. It's also disorganized. I often have to visually scan pages -- merely going by the alphabet doesn't work.

An excellent resource for beginners and Tableau jedis alike. The book doesn’t go into overwhelming detail with any one topic; it gives just enough of an understanding to build a solid foundation in data visualisation best practice using Tableau as the primary tool. It’s thorough enough to read through from beginning to end as a personal training course, but also structured so it can be used as a reference for specific topics or questions. The key differentiator from other Tableau training books is Milligan’s way of explaining the underlying logic behind the technical; he breaks things down so that readers can learn not just how to do something in Tableau, but why it works in the first place

Amazing

This book contains excellent explanations and the author knows when to go from explaining to practising. Downloaded the files no problem but I am only using Tableau Public. This means I can't load the starter files. However, most (not quite all) visuals can be recreated in Tableau Public from the pictures in the book using the supplied csv files as data source. I am about 40% through the book and think it is great.

Libro fortemente consigliato per chi si approccia per la prima volta a Tableau o per coloro che ne vogliono scoprire tutte le funzionalità. Il libro è ricco di esempi pratici.

2 sore points with the book:1) Potential buyers should be informed that it is not in color. The publisher should publish one in color, and allow buyers to choose between buying the color version even if it is more expensive, and the cheaper non-color version.2) Potential buyers should be forewarned that the exercises can only be done using Tableau Desktop, and not Tableau Public.

A very good book for learning Tableau from beginning, covers all topics with details steps and examples, only thing I would say is the color, it would be better if the tables and charts, maps, bars can be printed in colors, for sure the price would be much higher then...