Sawant Aniket - Tableau dashboard cookbook : over 40 recipes on designing professional dashboards by implementing data visualization principles

Jen Stirrup is an award-winning, internationally recognized business intelligence and data visualization expert, author, data strategist, and technical community advocate. She has been repeatedly honored, along with peer recognition, as one of the top 100 most globally influential tweeters on Big Data topics. Jen has over 16 years of experience in delivering Business Intelligence and data visualization projects for companies of various scales across the world.

I want to thank the most important person in my life, my son Matthew. I love him to the moon and backa millionty times. I dedicate this book to him.

I have been inspired by the genius of other people. In the words of Sir Isaac Newton, I stand on the shoulders of giants. My gratitude to Stephen Few, Edward Tufte, Raj M. Ratwani, and Ben Schneiderman. The Tableau community has boundless enthusiasm and a sense of fun, which has helped me to keep going. A special shout out to Jacqui, Ian Taylor, Dan Murray, and Tom Brown. I'd like to thank the great folks at Tableau, especially, Andy Cotgreave and Pat Hanrahan.

I would also like to thank the following people for their support and love; I appreciate it more than I can say. Toby, Gill, and Pippa Smith; Charlie and Joe Withey; Allan, Lesley, and Ewan Mitchell; my parents; and my brother.

I'd also like to thank the "SQLFamily"those in the global SQL Server and Microsoft Data Platform community, and of course, the "softies" themselves. They are just simply amazing, amazing people. They brighten my days and nights more than they know. Thank you!

I would like to thank everyone at Packt Publishing for their patience and hard work in helping to make this happen: Venitha, Rebecca, and Arun in particular. I would also like to thank the reviewers for their diligence and careful questions, and help in shaping this book.

Nuno Faustino has worked in data visualization, harvesting data from all kinds of web sources and databases since 2007. He specializes in QlikView and Tableau for dashboard production, usually after performing statistical analysis/modeling with tools such as R and SPSS.

He has mainly worked in the pharmaceutical industry for companies such as Cegedim and Johnson & Johnson. His skills have also been tested in the banking and insurance market during the challenge he took up to evaluate consumer intelligence in the UK.

At the academic level, Nuno published his thesis in 2009, in which he analyzed the efficiency of Portuguese pharmacies using Data Envelopment Analysis.

Mike Janecek has an undergraduate degree in Economics and MBA and has been providing analytical services for nearly 20 years in various institutes such as hospitals and insurance and investment companies. He has been following the data visualization movement since 2005 and using Tableau as his main tool of choice to generate visual analysis since early 2007.

Nathan Krisanski is a data analyst, consultant, and entrepreneur with over 10 years of industry experience and five years of experience working with Tableau Desktop and Server applications. He currently consults for several large-scale Australian companies, building and maintaining Tableau visualizations and installations for these clients.

Nathan graduated in 2007 with a Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, majoring in Software Development and Network Communications. He has worked in the health, real-estate, and banking and finance sectors, among many others.

Nathan is a Tableau partner and organizer for the Brisbane Tableau User Group. He was also a customer speaker at the 2012 European Tableau User Conference in Barcelona, Spain, and discussed the topic of dashboard integration and automation and spacial techniques.

Thank you to my girls, Kendall and Isabella. You'll are always in my thoughts and heart.

Patrick Spedding is a thought leader, evangelist, and strategic advisor in the area of Business Intelligence and Analytics. Over the 22 years of his career with IBM Cognos Business Intelligence, SAS Institute, and See-Change Solutions, Patrick had the opportunity to work in a number of roles, both functionally and geographically. These include the roles of the Director of Product Management for Cognos Asia-Pacific, Director of Field Marketing for Cognos West US, Area Technical Manager for Cognos West US, and SAS Solution Manager for Business Intelligence and Strategy Management.

Patrick is the Founder of See-Change Solutions, a Business Intelligence strategic advisory firm and a Tableau business partner. See-Change Solutions specializes in complex Business Intelligence deployments, including SAS/Tableau and Cognos/Tableau integration.

Patrick's qualifications include an MBA degree in Marketing (AIU), diploma in Management (University of Michigan), BSc (Hons) in Mathematics (Loughborough University), and Associate Fellow of the Australian Institute of Management (AFAIM). He is also Pragmatic Marketing Certified.