Tristan Guillevin - Getting Started with Tableau 2018.x: Get up and running with the new features of Tableau 2018 for impactful data visualization

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Tristan Guillevin is a true data lover who likes to share his passion. He graduated from engineering school in 2015. During these years, he went to Burkina Faso to teach computer science in schools around the country. The will to share and help people never left him since then. He started his professional life as a consultant at Actinvision, where he discovered Tableau. Soon, data visualization became a passion that has taken him around the world. In 2017, he won the Iron Viz (the ultimate data visualization battle organized by Tableau every year) in Las Vegas. Since his winning, he helps people with Tableau by making webinars, conferences, blog articles, and finally, this book! He's currently working at Ogury as a business analyst.

Ivett Kovcs was always very comfortable with dataafter majoring in statistics, she started working as a data analyst. She was one of the first Hungarian power users of Tableau Desktop, 2012, and has been mastering Tableau ever since. Currently, she is Starschema's senior data visualization expert, leading a team of 10+ dataviz developers.

She is not only Tableau certified, but has also been a Tableau Ambassador since 2017. She is also a featured volunteer with Viz for Social Good. She has been developing several Tableau dashboards on various social topicsthe refugee crisis and gender inequality in tech companies and political institutions. Ivett has been writing a book for Packt Publishing, Tableau 2018.x Projects.

Dilyana Bossenz works as a data analyst. Her professional focus is on data visualization and data analysis. She has a master's degree in business administration. She discovered her passion for data in 2014 at a workshop at Google when she was still a student. After that, she wrote a master's thesis about big data. She gained her first experience in Tableau as a four years intern in business intelligence. She is co-organizer of Tableau User Group and local chapter leader for Viz for Social Good in Berlin. In February 2018, she was recognized as a Tableau Feature Author.

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Tableau is one of the leading business intelligence tools used worldwide, across organizations of all scale. In its latest release, Tableau 2018 promises richer and more useful features related to visual analytics, reporting, dashboarding, and a host of other data visualization aspects. Getting Started with Tableau 2018.x will get you up and running with these features.

If you're familiar with Tableau, the book starts with the new functionalities of Tableau 2018, along with concrete examples of how to use them. However, if you're new to Tableau, don't worry! The rest of the book will guide you through each major aspect of Tableau with examples. You'll learn how to connect to data, build a data source, visualize your data, build a dashboard, and share it online. In the final chapters, you'll also learn advanced techniques such as creating a cross-database join and data blending.

By the end of the book, you will have a firm understanding of how to effectively use Tableau to create quick, cost-effective, and business-efficient