Cover -- Copyright -- Credits -- About the Author -- About the Reviewers -- www.PacktPub.com -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Chapter 1: A Short Dash to Dashboarding! -- Introduction -- Preparing for your first dashboard -- Showing the power of data visualization -- Connecting to data sources -- Introducing the Tableau interface -- Interacting with your first data visualization -- Sharing your visualization with the world -- Chapter 2: Summarizing Your Data for Dashboards -- Introduction -- Arithmetic - the queen of mathematics! -- Dashboards and dates -- Grouping your data with calculations -- Correlation with calculations -- Using cross-tabs flexibly -- Simplifying your business rules with customer calculations -- Chapter 3: Interacting with Data for Dashboards -- Introduction -- Fun with filters - grouping your data with clarity -- Hierarchies for revealing the dashboard message -- Classifying your data for dashboards -- Actions and interactions -- Drilling into the details -- Working with input controls -- Chapter 4: Using Dashboards to Get Results -- Introduction -- Enriching data with mashups -- Page trails -- Guided analytics with Tableau -- Sharing your results in a meeting -- Notes and annotations -- Using external data to enrich your dashboard -- Chapter 5: Putting the Dash into Dashboards -- Introduction -- Choosing your visualization -- Using parameters in dashboards -- Using custom geocoding in Tableau -- Profiting from Big Data to rev your visualization -- Filtering your data for focus -- Creating choices in dashboards using conditional logic -- Chapter 6: Making Dashboards Relevant -- Introduction -- Adding an infographic to your Tableau dashboard -- String manipulation in dashboards -- Correcting data exports from Tableau to Excel -- Blending data -- Optimizing tips for efficient, fast visualization.

Chapter 7: Visual Best Practices -- Introduction -- Coloring your numbers -- Dueling with dual axes -- Where is the three dimensional? -- Eating humble pie - pie charts or not? -- Sizing to make a data story -- Chapter 8: Tell the World! Share Your Dashboards -- Introduction -- Packaging workbooks with data -- Publishing dashboards to Tableau Server -- Publishing dashboards to Tableau Public -- Mobilizing your dashboards -- Mixing Tableau with SharePoint 2013 Power BI -- Wrapping up with R - dashboards as a tool -- Index.