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Tableau · Interactivity, dashboards, and storytelling — Advanced technical manual

Public introduction · full guide in Eikos

Introduction

What this guide covers

Introduction Tableau · Data Engineering & Analytics

Overview

Topics covered

  • Introduction
  • Advanced Tableau: Interactivity, Dashboards and Storytelling
  • Architecture and Data Model in Tableau
  • 1.1 Statistical implications and the effect of record duplication (Fan-out)
  • 1.2 Data Blending (Combination of data at the aggregation level)
  • 1.3 Extracts (.hyper) vs. Live Connection

Related concepts

Main connections

  • Calculus & differentiation
  • Data granularity & row semantics
  • SQL & relational data modeling
  • Mean & expected value
  • Variance & standard deviation
  • Quantiles & percentiles

Compatible notation

Mathematical sample in LaTeX

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